We had some good news and bad news in our 2017 Atlantic Canadian Startup Data report:

1. We had a record year for failures in 2017;
2. Zombie companies accounted for almost one-fifth of the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

In case you were confused, No. 1 is the good news and No. 2 the bad. We needed more failures, and likely need more still.

One of the hallmarks of a healthy startup

Andrew Ray has been named the new Vice-President of Investment at Innovacorp, and he has a singular priority: to see the Nova Scotia venture capital agency make money for the provincial government.

The Crown corporation announced last week that Ray, who has been an Innvovacorp IT investment manager for four years, would succeed Charles Baxter, who retired earlier this year. Innovacorp hired a

A sold-out crowd assembled Friday for Social Media Sydney, in which experts from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. gathered in the Cape Breton city to provide sage advice on using social media.

Organized by Nava Marketing, the event was designed to help business people understand the best ways to get their message out using a range of social media – on both different platforms and different media.

Nature’s Way Canada, a company that produces a wide range of all-natural health products, has formed a partnership with Natural Products Canada, a non-profit that commercializes natural product companies  in Canada.

The two organizations announced their shared commitment to co-invest in early-stage Canadian companies that are developing innovative natural health products in a statement last

The silence has been broken after a few quiet weeks on our job board. Today, in our Jobs of the Week column, we're highlighting three postings from Dash Hudson, a visual media marketing company in Halifax. 

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that  helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for its

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,