At the Entrevestor Luncheon in Sydney in the spring, it didn’t take long for the 100-plus attendees to zero in on one essential thing missing in the local ecosystem – an incubator.

The event, which was sponsored by BDO Canada, asked the diners

A thorough redesign of the B4 Change program at the University of New Brunswick will assist social entrepreneurs by working with regional partners to deliver more tailored and individualized programming.

A social entrepreneur is someone who

Health QR, the Halifax startup whose mobile app helps patients improve success with their medical prescriptions, launched its product in a reception at the Volta startup house last night.

As well as launching the product, the two-year-old

Backed by $2.7 million in venture capital funding, Immunio is rapidly gaining clients for its software that battles breaches of company data.

The Montreal- and Dartmouth-based company aims for ease of use in its product that allows companies to

Kitchener-Waterloo has a representative at the federal cabinet table, and it seems appropriate that the rookie minister’s portfolio is small business.

Bardish Chagger, who won the Waterloo seat in the Oct. 19 election, was named the Minister for

Calvin Milbury hopes New Brunswick improves its standing the next time the Conference Board of Canada ranks the innovation performance of Canadian provinces. And the President and CEO of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is taking steps to

When John Quimby and Kyle Hoar attended the Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge in Moncton to get out of school for the day, they couldn’t have known it would be the birth of a business venture.

The two 15-year-olds presented their science fair

Suncayr CEO Rachel Pautler sums it up best when it comes to the obvious appeal of her company’s skin protection product, joking that her team initially wondered, “Why has no one done this before?”

The product—a marker that tests the

Modest Tree Media Inc., a Dartmouth-based simulation and training software company, has teamed up with RaceRocks 3D Inc., a Victoria-based education technology company. Together, they will work on the training for a upcoming Canadian defence

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