The undergraduate team from Saint Mary’s University finished third this weekend in the New England finals of the international Venture Capital Investment Competition, or VCIC

The team finished one point behind the silver medalists from Cornell, while the team from Dartmouth College won the event.

The VCIC is an international competition in which teams of graduate and undergraduate students

Thank you to all those who have filled in our survey – the response has been fantastic! We’ve received 105 completed surveys in just a few weeks, meaning we’ll be donating more than $1,000 to Australian wildfire relief.

But it’s not enough. We still want more survey responses, and we want to do more for the Red Cross. So we’re extending the deadline for another week. For every survey we accept

Eight startup founders will get a chance to pitch before venture capitalists in Halifax during BDO’s VC Pitch Day.

Now in its fifth year, VC Pitch Day connects Atlantic Canada’s tech entrepreneurs to some of the country’s top investors for the opportunity to secure capital and receive actionable feedback.

The Halifax event will take place on March 31 and is one of six VC Pitch Day events taking

An opening for an Associate Product Manager at Dash Hudson in Halifax and two positions at Protocase in Sydney headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Protocase has openings for a Software Developer and a Junior Web Developer. Established in 2001, the company makes custom electronic enclosures. It focuses on combining advances in software with advanced manufacturing techniques to offer

Planet Hatch, Fredericton’s entrepreneurship centre, has accepted four companies into the latest cohort of its Export Igniter program, which helps participants to scale in foreign markets.

The fourth cohort of the program, which has already graduated 15 Fredericton-area companies, began Jan. 21 with an official kick-off at Planet Hatch.

"We are very excited about the companies participating in

Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, a company that enables concrete producers to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete, has been named 2020 North American Cleantech Company of the Year by San Francisco’s Cleantech Group.

This is the first time a Canadian company has won the prestigious award from the group that provides research, consulting and events to boost sustainable growth powered

Halifax’s eOceans, which is developing an online platform for gathering ocean data, has joined the latest cohort of the Seattle-based Washington Maritime Blue accelerator.

The company’s Founder and CEO Christine Ward-Paige is the only remote member of the 11-team cohort, joining the program online each day. But she will travel to Seattle in April for the closing presentation to the Maritime Blue

Propel, the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator, is seeking IT startups to participate in the coming cohort of its Incite Phase I program, which helps entrepreneurs establish their product-market fit.

The pan-regional organization in 2018 launched its Incite accelerator – a two-phase virtual program for early-stage tech startups across the region.

Because the Incite curriculum is delivered

Entrepreneurship is notoriously tough on founders’ health. Kevin Stephens, founder of Career Cinch, is walking a rough path: he’s fighting a rare cancer and has had to withdraw from Halifax’s Volta accelerator, but he’s sharing his struggles on social media in order to connect with others.

Fredericton-based Stephens has been developing Career Cinch, a Software-as-a-Service product that uses

Bloxo and Clean Catch Baits, a pair of enterprises that grew out of Saint Mary’s University, captured two of the top spots at the Apex Business Plan Competition in Fredericton last week.

The two-day competition hosted by the University of New Brunswick’s International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre had 41 entries from across the country this year. Last year, there were 18 entries from