It seemed counterintuitive to start his own Internet venture when the dotcom business he’d been working for collapsed in the crash of 2000, but Mark Kennedy has always followed his passions.

The St. John’s entrepreneur had already co-founded a

Tyler Wish and Chris Gardner, two members of the bustling St. John’s startup community, are teaming up to form Sequence Bioinformatics, a new company dedicated to analyzing genetic data for the prevention of diseases.

The pair of entrepreneurs

Launch36, the regional tech accelerator, plans to branch out to Newfoundland and Labrador in 2014 as part of its goal to build at least one billion-dollar ICT company in Atlantic Canada.

The accelerator operated by PropelICT graduated its third

Launch36, the Atlantic Canadian technology accelerator, will graduate its next six companies tonight at an extravaganza in Saint John, N.B., bringing the companies that have gone through the two-year-old program to 26.

Propel ICT, the New

It was the quintessential investor-entrepreneur lunch, the pitch resoundingly perfect, the potential riches laid bare.

It ended with a commitment and a hand-shake. The investors would take the lead in assembling a syndicated round for our Big

Innovacorp on Friday released the names of the 25 entrants in the I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition that have been invited to compete in Round 2.

A few of them have been covered previously in Entrevestor, and we’ve linked to those stories.

When he emigrated from Serbia to Canada in 2005, Milan Vrekic had just $1,250 and a suitcase. The young computer enthusiast made mistakes in his new home, but he survived then thrived. Now aged 29, Vrekic has already co-founded one successful

Milan Vrekic, entrepreneur and Executive Director of Volta Labs, shares four things he learned from observing Waterloo’s Communitech, that city’s hub for the commercialization of innovative technologies.

1. The only sustainable model is that

DeCell Technologies Inc., a Halifax biotech startup that is improving skin grafts for wound treatment, has landed about $500,000 in investment to finance clinical trials and its first processing system.

President and CEO Paul Gratzer said in an

Last night on Dragons’ Den, we witnessed two groups of Halifax children who exemplify all that’s great about student entrepreneurship.

The special student episode featured Hope Blooms, a north-end community garden project that grows its own

Two New Brunswick companies this week have been named to lists of Canadian tech companies making impressive strides.

Smart Skin Technologies of Fredericton was named to the CIX Top 20, a list of leading young tech companies recognized by the

Entrevestor and Progress Media today are proud to release our Entrevestor Intelligence report on Big Data in Atlantic Canada.

The report outlines how the Atlantic Canadian startup community fits into the global revolution in data analytics – the