Gilfoy Endowment for Entrepreneurship Students

Friends of Neville Gilfoy, the late publisher of Progress Media, have established The Neville J. Gilfoy Endowment in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Dalhousie University.

A gathering was held

Prince Edward Island’s life sciences segment has been doubling in size about every four years, and now the industry’s association has a singular mission: keep it going.

The Prince Edward Island BioAlliance recently released its latest strategy

Startup Weekends will be held in each of the Maritime Provinces on Nov. 18 to 20, coinciding with the Global Startup Weekend.

More than 200 of these events are taking place around the world in the next two weeks, bringing together a total of 15,000

Spring Loaded Technology, the Dartmouth company that is making a knee brace that adds power to the joint, is looking for two key people as it builds up its team.

The company is advertising on the Entrevestor Job Board for a cost accountant and a

Nova Scotia’s life sciences sector is one of the big winners of the announcement last week that Innovacorp has received fresh capital for its venture capital fund.

The province announced it will provide $40 million over the next eight years to the

Propel To Host DemoDay Nov. 29 in Halifax

Propel ICT, the regional tech accelerator for the Atlantic Provinces, will host the Demo Day for its fall cohort Nov. 29 at 5 p.m. at Pier 21 in Halifax.

The organization said 10 companies will present

John Hamblin is on a mission to develop entrepreneurship among Atlantic Canadians who don’t quite fit the typical profile of the young, tech-savvy startup types.

The founder of Startup Halifax is spending his time promoting entrepreneurship among

Now that ViTRAK Systems has a growing list of paying customers, Crystal Trevors has her eyes set on expanding into the rehabilitation market, especially in the U.S., and a new round of funding.

Trevors is the CEO of ViTRAK, a Charlottetown startup

Intellijoint Surgical Inc., a Waterloo-based medical technology company, said Tuesday it has landed an $11 million Series A financing round, which will help it to expand in the U.S.

The company said in a statement the round was led by unnamed

Jonathan Medved flew into Halifax on Sunday afternoon, and by Sunday night he was talking about the Nova Scotian companies he’d like to invest in.

Medved, the founder of the Israeli-based equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, was in Halifax to

Halifax-based QRA Corp. has been named to the first cohort of the Lazaridis Institute Canadian Scale-Up Program, which will help promising Canadian startups to go through their growth stage.

Named for BlackBerry Co-Founder Mike Lazaridis, the

The Nova Scotia First Fund, Innovacorp’s fund for early stage investments in Nova Scotia, is receiving $40 million in capital to ensure it can continue funding companies for the next few years.

The Nova Scotia government announced Thursday it would