GoVenture World, the long-anticipated business education game devised by Sydney serial entrepreneur Mathew Georghiou, has been shortlisted for Microsoft’s competition to find the best new game in Canada.

Georghiou is best known as the CEO and founder of MediaSpark, whose GoVenture product is a series of educational digital games that have been used by more than one million people around the

It is a time of change and growth for the regional accelerator, Propel ICT.

As it undergoes changes in senior management with the departure of St. John’s-based CEO Gary Dinn and Halifax-based Entrepreneur-in-Residence Ying Tam, Propel ICT is preparing for its first cohort of 2016 with a broader geographical reach than ever before.  And it is working on doing more to support the companies that

Halifax-based STI Technologies has been named to the Deloitte Fast 50, the first Atlantic Canadian company to make the list of the fastest–growing Canadian tech companies in three years.

Deloitte Canada released the list on Thursday, placing STI in the 41^st place with revenue growth of 204 percent over the past four years. On Friday, Deloitte named STI to its North American Fast 50 list,

A new bone cement being developed in Halifax will be used in the treatment of orthopedic patients. The developers aim to make treatment easier and more affordable, and open up a whole new market.

The new product is a glass ionomer cement, said Caitlin Pierlot, the CEO of Biofix Medical Technologies.

“GICs have been used for years in dentistry, and still are,” Pierlot said. “However,

WINstorm presents Inc., a Dartmouth-based sales communications company, has been selected as the digital marketing partner for the National Association of Government Communicators, or NAGC.

WINstorm, which started in 2002, licenses marketing and sales communication software and has always targeted government as a key sector for its product. The deal with NAGC is important because it will

The Finance and Consumer Services Commission of New Brunswick will host a Fullsail conference in Fredericton on Wednesday to discuss various forms of crowdfunding.

The FCSC, a regulatory body whose duties include securities regulations, hosts its Fullsail conferences around the province to inform the public on a range of issues pertaining to raising capital. Crowdfunding – or the raising of

One of the noticeable highlights of the Atlantic Canadian innovation community in 2015 is the number of multimillion-dollar funding rounds from venture capital investors based outside the region.

There have been at least four companies that have announced deals worth $3 million or more from VC funds based elsewhere. CarbonCure Technologies of Halifax and RtTech Software of Moncton both

Growth startups have one thing in common: they need injections of cash to drive that growth. Without money, startups may be able to grow, just not as fast. So, if rapid growth is the goal, and investment helps them get there, how do we get as much cash to as many startups as possible?

The answer from all four Atlantic provinces is using equity or small business investor tax credits (in this

Be audacious.

That was the message Yobie Benjamin had for Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs when he delivered the keynote address at the Engage 2015 Conference in Halifax this week. The celebrated entrepreneur and funder called on East Coast startups to be as audacious as possible, because it’s the only way to grab the attention of major venture capital investors.

“You need to have audacity –

My grandfather, artillery officer H.P. MacKeen, shown on the left, wrote this poem in Ypres in September 1917, two months before the Battle of Passchendaele.

 

The White Cross

It isn’t a medal or order,

It carries no ribbon or braid

But a token still

As on Calvary Hill

Of the greater sacrifice made.

 

It stands as a lonely sentinel

O’er the place where the hero sleeps