Iain Klugman, the CEO of Communitech, has been awarded the 2015 Startup Canada Award for Entrepreneur Promotion.

Klugman is the driving force behind an organization that is not so much an accelerator as a diversified ecosystem all founded around

RtTech Software of Moncton and 17-year-old Alex Gillis, the CEO of Halifax-based Bitness.io, have won national 2015 Startup Canada Awards.

The Ottawa-based organization announced Tuesday that RtTech, an Industrial Internet of Things company, had

It doesn’t take long in an interview with Kumaran Thillainadarajah to understand why Deloitte named his business, Smart Skin Technologies, to its list of companies to watch in Canada.

In the last two years, the Fredericton firm has installed its

Kitchener-based Voltera has won the 2015 James Dyson Award, which recognizes brilliant new products by university graduates.

The team from the University of Waterloo won the award for the Voltera V-One, which prints custom circuit boards using

Cisco Systems Inc. has named Fredericton-based Eigen Innovations one of six finalists at the Innovation Grand Challenge, the pitching competition at the prestigious Internet of Things World Forum on Dec. 7 in Dubai.

Eigen has developed

Emily Miller recently spent a month at the Halifax Central Library curating information on various Maritime and Ontario startups – she really wanted to work in the startup space. A political science major at St. Francis Xavier University, Miller

Patrick Keefe’s column on Friday drew big response from readers, both on Entrevestor and social media, and we’d like to share some of the feedback with you.

Keefe, a Partner at Build Ventures in Halifax, wrote a response to the analysis

A subsidiary of Chinese optics manufacturer Guangzhou Bosma Corp. has invested $500,000 in Halifax’s 4-Deep Inwater Imaging, expanding the microscope-maker’s R&D and distribution capacity.

The companies said in a statement today that Bosma USA

One of our unquestioned assumptions when we closed the Build Ventures’ fund in 2013 was that launching a startup in Atlantic Canada was cheaper than doing it in other parts of Canada or the United States. Our location, at least in this respect,

Many in the packed house at the FullSail conference in Fredericton on Wednesday very quickly learned that their preconceptions about crowdfunding were mistaken.

The conference on crowdfunding, organized by the Financial and Consumer Services

Innovacorp, Nova Scotia’s provincial innovation agency, invested a total of $5.9 million in 14 companies in the fiscal year ended March 31, including a previously unannounced $1 million funding of Halifax-based QRA Corp.

The data are contained

Tallyfi, one of the four companies recently admitted to Communitech’s Rev accelerator, has pioneered the 21^st Century equivalent of the bouncer’s counter.

The Kitchener-based company is dedicated to helping bar staffs keep track of traffic in