Meet MTEI Student Interns

Members of the Nova Scotia business community looking for talented interns are invited to attend a session to meet students from the Master of Technology Entrepreneurship Innovation at St. Mary’s University.

The students in this graduate program for entrepreneurially minded executives will “pitch” themselves at Volta Labs in Halifax on Monday, March 7, from 5 to 7:30 pm.

MTEI intern students are trained in the entire startup process, from innovation processes and management to commercialization and business development.

Organizers of the event said these students

The Fundica Roadshow will stop in Halifax next week, holding a pitching and mentoring event on Friday, March 11, at Volta Labs in Halifax. The winner of the event will get a chance to pitch at the Grand Finale in San Francisco.

Fundica is a national organization dedicated to helping startups accelerate the funding process, and one of its key events is the coast-to-coast Fundica Roadshow. The

New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant has outlined plans to establish a centre of excellence for cybersecurity in New Brunswick.

The premier attended the RSA Conference 2016 in San Francisco this week to promote the province to information technology companies and security specialists. Before he left, he told the media that New Brunswick, and Fredericton in particular, is already strong in the

Solace Power has won Sikorsky Innovations’ 2016 Entrepreneurial Challenge, allowing the Newfoundland and Labrador company to work more closely with the U.S. Aerospace company.

Based in Mount Pearl, NL, Solace Power specializes in wireless power – that is, delivering electrical energy to batteries or devices without any wires attached to them. It works on projects for specific customers and then

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'