Affinio, the Halifax-based company that uses social media analysis to identify communities for marketers, has raised a $4 million Series A venture capital round led by Whitecap Venture Partners of Toronto.

The other members of the investment

In his new role as a diplomat, David Alward was relaxed and jovial as he welcomed a busload of startup founders to the Cambridge Innovation Centre, just across the Charles River from Boston.

The former New Brunswick premier is now Canada’s

Blitzen, a venture-backed startup based in Kitchener, has launched its lead management solution for small and medium enterprises.

CEO Jesse Guild unveiled the product today at the Dublin Web Summit, promising it is a tool that will let SMEs

Innovacorp on Monday released the list of finalists for the regional and sectoral contests in the I-3 Technology Startup Competition.

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia innovation agency, holds the competition every second year with the goal of

Entrevestor and Qimple are delighted to announce the launch of our joint job board, which will be the region’s first job posting site targeting the technology, innovation and startup sectors.

The Entrevestor Job Board, powered by Qimple, is now

As a digital research firm operating out of Atlantic Canada, we at Thistlwood wanted to attempt to understand the primary issues and concerns of entrepreneurs and start-ups in Halifax and largely Nova Scotia. We did this by analyzing discussions

Plum Inc., a Waterloo-based maker of behaviour-based recruitment software, has won a US$250,000 (C$327,000) award and incubation space in Buffalo as one of the winners of the second annual 43North competition.

As well as the development funding,

You’re probably never going to meet two happier entrepreneurs than Kousha and Ehsan Nakhaei, and not just because their startup MouseStats has attracted blue-chip clients.

They’re elated just to be in Nova Scotia.

The Nakhaei brothers arrived

Biofix Medical Technologies, a Halifax company development a bone cement, has won the $45,000 BioInnovation Challenge for 2015.

BioNova, the Nova Scotia Life Sciences association, announced the winners at its annual BioPort Atlantic conference

When Matt Daigle learned there wasn’t a tool to help home renovators find the most environmentally friendly products on the market, he decided to build one himself. Thus Rise was launched.

Daigle and his three co-founders are creating an online

Three Nova Scotian biotech companies will compete today for $45,000 in prizes in the BioInnovation Challenge.

The finalists, selected from a final round of six competitors, are Biofix Medical Technologies, Help Method and RetiCAD.

The fifth

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation invested a record $4.2 million in startups in the 2015 fiscal year, more than twice the figure two years earlier, the not-for-profit agency said in the annual report released Tuesday.

NBIF said it made six