Virtual Marine Technology, the St. John’s, N.L., developer of simulated training systems for maritime industries, has quintupled its revenues in the last two years with its drive into export markets.

And president Anthony Patterson says that

But there were two interesting standouts that played supporting roles at the conference, which was held in Halifax on May 30: the region’s start-ups and its universities.

The final conference in the 4Front series wrapped up with the 250

[Editor’s Note: Perry B. Newman is a consultant in Portland, Maine. We were discussing how Entrevestor could write more about startups in Maine when he proposed a guest column on what we in this region could learn from Israel. Here's the result.]

With a $1.9-million loan from the Atlantic Innovation Fund, Island Abbey Foods of Charlottetown is tripling its research staff and pioneering the delivery of health supplements and pharmaceuticals through its honey-based products.

The company is

Answer this quickly: What’s the one thing that private enterprise in Atlantic Canada wants governments to do to improve our competitiveness?

Did you answer, “Lower taxes”? It would have been my guess.

But we’d both be wrong.

The top business

Halifax Pop Explosion, the autumn event that started 21 years ago as a forum for local music, plans to expand its digital component this year so it will become a marketplace and mentorship lab for East Coast technology.

HPX last year added HPX

The Wallace McCain Institute at the University of New Brunswick has named the 16 participants in the sixth cohort of its Entrepreneurial Leaders Program.

After an intense two-day process it calls "The Choosing", the institute selected a range of

At least nine startups or organizations working in the area of animal health will attend a MentorCamp affiliated with the VetHealth Global conference in Charlottetown on June 10.

The participants in the one-day mentoring session include two

Volta, the co-working space for startups in downtown Halifax, has yet to complete its first month of operation, but it is already fleshing out its programs and partnerships, which will benefit young companies in the region.

The “startup house”,

Sackville, N.B.-based biotech Soricimed Biopharma Inc. has signed a contract to conduct Phase I clinical trials at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, meaning its drug candidate SOR-C13 will be tested at three

ClearRisk Inc., the St. John’s SAAS venture that helps mid-level insurance brokers assess risk, has closed a follow-on round of funding from GrowthWorks Atlantic and an arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada to help it continue its rapid

Oris4, the Halifax software company that has developed a cloud-based document organization system, has hired Salesforce.com veteran Wade McCallum to lead the company’s sales team.

McCallum had been Salesforce’s vice-president of enterprise