With a goal of helping young entrepreneurs avoid failure, Canada’s Business Model Competition will take place this Friday and Saturday at Dalhousie University.

Now in its fourth year, CBMC judges student teams from across the country based on their use of the lean canvas, which emphasizes speaking directly with potential customers and users of their business idea. Teams don’t receive points for

A year on from winning New Brunswick’s Breakthru competition, Castaway Golf Technologies has exceeded its annual sales targets and is selling its second-hand golf balls in 1,400 stores in Canada and the U.S.

The Fredericton company last year won the $287,250 first prize in Breakthru, which seeks to find the top new startup in New Brunswick. The company won with a mechanized device that can

As we build a list of Atlantic Canadian startups, we’re putting out a special request for young innovative companies based in New Brunswick to let us know they’re in business.

Why New Brunswick?

We believe that the province has been a hotbed of company formation in the past two years, especially in the IT segment. There are New Brunswick startups that we haven’t heard of yet, and we’d love to

This week in Jobs of the Week, we’re focussing on the Halifax area, including a new posting on the Entrevestor Job Board from Hacket’s Cove, N.S.-based transmitter developer Nautel.

Nautel is a manufacturer of high powered radio frequency products that are primarily suited for broadcast, navigation, industrial, and plasma rocket applications.

The company, which is looking for a Product

Propel ICT’s recent announcement of its latest cohort of tech startups illustrates just how quickly Atlantic Canada is developing a huge pool of expertise in launching and scaling high-growth companies.

The regional accelerator this month announced that 38 companies will participate in its first course of 2016, including nine in its elite Build program, which is tailored to more advanced

Minnesota Twins become Kinduct Client

Kinduct Technologies has announced that the Minnesota Twins are the newest addition to their growing list of high-profile sports clients. The two-time World Series champions, now gearing up for spring training, have adopted Kinduct's innovative suite of athlete management tools across their organization, including their minor league affiliates. The Twins'

Having finally secured seed funding of $650,000, Newfoundland startup HeyOrca! is looking to take on more staff and increase the sales of its marketing collaboration platform.

Until recently, the company had just three people on staff Co-Founders Joseph Teo, Sahand Seifi and web developer Nadia Sajjadi. Now it is in the process of bulking up to a five-member team, as well as adding some co-op

The University of New Brunswick Wood Science and Technology Centre is hosting a conference on March 1 and 2 titled Looking Ahead: Opportunities in Value-Added Wood.

The conference will look at the rapid innovation in the design and manufacturing of wood products, and the need for Atlantic Canada’s forest and wood product industries to keep abreast of trends. You can register for the event here.

The University of New Brunswick is now accepting applications for the 2016 cohort of its Summer Institute, which will include for the first time a program in clean technology.

The Summer Institute is a three-month accelerator in Fredericton, in which participants pursue entrepreneurial endeavours with a focus on artistry and passion rather than analytics and data.

Through this approach, the

Sackville, N.B.-based Soricimed Biopharma Inc. has received positive initial readings from the Phase 1 trials of its flagship compound SOR-C13, including indications that it can stabilize some cancer tumours.

Sor-C13 is a peptide, or a naturally occurring biological molecule, that clings to the calcium in a cancer cell and deprives it of oxygen, thereby killing the tumour. Soricimed hopes to