Seeets, the Charlottetown startup that operates a web-based rideshare service in the Maritimes, is setting its sights on an expansion into Ontario later this year after improving its existing service.

Seeets is the operator of Maritime Rideshare

When Steve Mallett entered the Launch36 accelerator last autumn, he did so as one of the most experienced entrepreneurs ever to go through the tech development program.

Based in the Saint John suburb of Quispamsis, Mallett is the CEO of

Now that it has signed its first customer and identified its first project, Saint John-based Wicked Ideas, which is devoted to the constructive online debate of controversial issues, is looking for its first group of investors.

The company,

Xiplinx Technologies, a New Brunswick company that helps manufacturers monitor compliance activities in their production lines, has drawn about $500,000 of funding, and could double that amount by early May.

All in, the company that graduated

A year ago, Shivam Rajdev sat in a Halifax restaurant and explained that he and a few colleagues wanted something more exciting in life than their jobs at a reinsurance back-office consultancy.

In the year since, he and some friends have

Armed with a new round of funding and head of business development, Kris McNeil hopes 2013 will be the year his company Solace Power lands the first customer for its wireless energy technology.

Solace Power was founded in 2007 with the goal of

Joining venture capital funds across the country, GrowthWorks Atlantic is protesting the federal government’s decision to phase out funding for Labour-Sponsored Venture Capital Corporations, saying it will hurt entrepreneurship in the outlying

Last June, after the Launch36 DemoDay in Dieppe, N.B., I met Scott MacIntosh, the CEO of SwiftRadius, and one of his employees, Chad Griffin, who was about to spin off a company called Adeptio from the software consultancy.

I didn't quite catch

Over lunch in Charlottetown one day last summer, Scott Gallant and Jordan Patterson were grousing about one of the pains in their industry, and it resulted in the creation of their company, WP Status.

The company provides support for people who

The Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development is looking for a few good entrepreneurs. Actually, it has 15 really good entrepreneurs and is looking for another 15 up-and-comers to learn from them.

CEED has launched a new

Allan Gates of Bonfire Stories has produced a video of the Launch36 DemoDay last week, which you can find here.

It certainly captures the excitement I remember from the first DemoDay last June. Wish I'd been there.

Though he has yet to graduate from high school, Raphael Paulin-Daigle has no qualms discussing the global potential of his fledgling business, Shopulse. In fact, he discussed it with hundreds of tech specialists last week at the Launch36 Demo Day,