The Fundica Roadshow has announced the 10 companies that will pitch at its event in Halifax on Thursday at the Innovacorp Enterprise Centre on Summer Street.

The event will feature startups from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec, which will all have a chance to move on to the national competition. Tickets for the event are available here. 

The Fundica Roadshow holds pitching events from

I witnessed the most extraordinary pitch last week — possibly the most compelling pitch I’ve ever seen.

It was delivered by a team of students in the St. Mary’s University Masters of Technology, Entrepreneurship and Innovation program. The team’s name is Dou It Fresh, and they have prototyped a product that will enhance something most of us don’t discuss, unless it’s in jokes.

They’re out to revolutionize douching.

“The subject we’re talking about is very sensitive for some people, but we have to talk about it,” said Anindita Gupta in leading off her team’s presentation.

Douche has two

Vesuvius Media, a Halifax-based game development company, will launch its new board game Centauri Saga: Season 1 Legacy Game on Kickstarter this Saturday.

The new game is a sequel to the original Centauri Saga game, which Vesuvius Media launched last year in a Kickstarter campaign that raised $68,761 from 825 backers.

Centauri Saga is a cooperative, sci-fi, 4X board game for 1 to 4 players, and

After several years in developing her product,  Hazel Harrison of St. John’s is launching the first part of her product to help wean smokers off cigarettes.

Harrison is the CEO of SNM Global Technologies – which stands for Smoke No More. The company has just released its iOS-based app that helps smokers to gradually cut down until they cut out the habit altogether. Later this year, the company

Dash Hudson and Swept, two of the companies featured at the Amplify conference last week,are looking for fresh talent in Halifax.

Dash Hudson, whose CEO Thomas Rankin outlined how his company used sales development reps to generate more paying customers, is now looking for two SDRs and an account executive.

Dash Hudson, which has been hiring strongly in recent months, helps clients analyze

High-growth innovation companies are great because they promise to become major exporters and employers. That economic potential is wonderful. What’s even better is that so many of these company have a great social and/or environmental impact.

Last month, the editors at the Chronicle-Herald asked me for a look at a few Nova Scotian companies that are doing well and doing good. I came up with a

Startup Zone, the innovation hub in downtown Charlottetown, announced this week that Doug Keefe would become its Interim CEO. The Interim CEO of the Startup Zone is integral to the continued development and management of Prince Edward Island’s business incubator, the groups said in a statement.

Keefe is the founder of Logikl Technology Inc, which has developed Software-as-a-Service for a number

The Amplify Growth Conference in Halifax Tuesday displayed something that’s becoming more common in startup events in Atlantic Canada: When the local speakers took the stage, they were generally as impressive as the experts flown in from the U.S.

Amplify focused on growth marketing — the process by which small companies efficiently reach huge numbers of people and convert as many as possible to

The Fredericton and the Saint John chapters of Ladies Learning Code will now be working more closely together as a New Brunswick team to offer bigger, better, more variety events with the aim to normalize computer science knowledge and get more female into the technology industry.

“We are working together to make sure that our events aren’t on the same weekend unless it’s a big Canadian-wide

Innovacorp is looking for a successor to CEO Stephen Duff, who plans to step down next year, and has ended its I-3 Startup Technology Competition.

Duff said in an interview Tuesday he has told the board of the the Nova Scotia innovation agency that he will not continue as CEO when his five-year term ends in the spring of 2018. The board has hired Knightsbridge Robertson Surrette to conduct the