It’s difficult to quantify the growth of a startup community year to year, but there is one figure from our 2017 Atlantic Canadian Startup Data report that demonstrates what’s happening in the space.

On Thursday, we're releasing the highlights of the report and explained our findings to key stakeholders at a luncheon hosted by Business Development Bank of Canada. The report contains the best

Hanatech, an IoT solutions company nestled in Bedford, is getting ready to release a new integrated dashboard, called One Smart View, that lets its customers receive and manage their data.

IoT, or the Internet of Things, is a term that refers to the global network of devices, like our phones, computers and tablets, that are all connected to one another via internet and the cloud. IoT companies

Jennifer Wagner, the Executive Vice-President of CarbonCure Technologies, has been selected as a Climate Trailblazer as part of the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

Wagner is the sole Trailblazer chosen from Canada, this year. 

The Summit, which is taking place this week, selected 22 Trailblazers across six continents who are solving problems in one of the Summit’s five areas

Halifax-based Affinio on Wednesday announced that it has joined a major project initiated by tech giants Microsoft and Adobe to help retailers and consumer goods companies increase their sales.

Microsoft’s new Intelligent Customer Journey for Retail project will help retail and consumer goods companies use artificial intelligence to personalize the shopping experience for their customers.

The Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development is rolling out new programs on lean startup methodology for aspiring entrepreneurs.

CEED, a provincial business support and growth centre, is wrapping up its first installment of Fit to SucCEED, a six-week business training course that helps people pin down the real value their businesses can deliver to potential customers.

Then,

Maybe it’s not a coincidence that the lone Atlantic Canadian company named to the Canadian Innovation Exchange this year is from the smallest province.

Maybe – or should we say probably – it’s the result of a methodical, multi-year strategy to improve the startup ecosystem in Prince Edward Island.

The Toronto-based CIX said last week its 20 laureates for 2018 include Island Water Technologies,

Saint Mary’s University's Venture Grade Fund made its first investment this week, contributing $15,000 to Trip Ninja, a startup for travel-planning. The investment was announced on Tuesday, at Volta Labs’ new event space in the Maritime Centre in Halifax.

Venture Grade is a venture capital fund operated by SMU students and it has raised about $200,000 to date.

“It’s taken us about two years to

Beauceron Security, a Fredericton company that measures clients’ cybersecurity risks, has been named to the Cyber London accelerator program in the U.K.

Known as CyLon, the accelerator hosts cybersecurity startups from around the world, offering them £15,000 (C$25,600) in investment, work space in London and training sessions with international experts. Beauceron is one of nine participants in

Half of the small to medium-sized businesses in Atlantic Canada have trouble finding the employees they need, says a new study released by the Business Development Bank of Canada.

The national study found that half of the SME owners the bank surveyed in the region said they had trouble finding new employees. That means Atlantic Canada has the highest labour shortage in the country as the survey

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship at Memorial University has a new Entrepreneur-in-Residence to encourage its students to pursue their ideas in the med-tech or health innovation sectors.

Mandy Woodland’s official title is Health Innovation Initiative Entrepreneur-in-Residence; a broad-sounding title to which she brings a broad range of experience.

Woodland previously worked for 10 years