A day after its Atlantic Innovation Fund financing officially expired, Vitrak Systems Inc. of Charlottetown closed its first sale.

The company in 2011 won a two-year, $1.4-million loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunity Agency’s innovation

In the midst of those hazy, lazy days of summer, startup incubators and accelerators around Atlantic Canada are hard at work preparing for a bevy of activity in the autumn.

These “startup organizers”, if you will, all like to be called something

The Halifax startup community is staging an event next month that could theoretically lead to improved services and greater efficiency in Halifax Regional Municipality.

Volta, the co-working space for startups in downtown Halifax, is hosting a

After a gas leak was reported in Halfax’s south end in July, Gordon McArthur and Nick Nickerson drove around the area taking readings of natural gas with an ultra-sensitive analyzer to make sure all leaks had been plugged.

Within a few hours,

I was really lucky in March to spend some time with Mark Dobbin, the head of Killick Capital of St. John’s.

The result of that interview – conducted in his open, marble-floored office with a panoramic view of St. John’s Harbour – is an article

The latest edition of Startup Monthly, the video discussion about the Atlantic Canadian startup community, is now available at Startup Kitchen.

This month, Robert Foley, Suhaim Abdussamad and I are joined by Jason Lee, Program Manager at

Ascenta Health Ltd. in Dartmouth has received a $500,000 repayable loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to support the marketing of Ascenta Skin, its first omega-3-based product for the beauty market.

Founded a decade ago by CEO

BlueLight Analytics, whose technology ensures dentists apply the right amount of energy when curing resin-based fillings, has launched its new checkMARC product, which it hopes will serve as an entry into dental offices around the world.

The

All you North American sports fans out there: have you ever read a cricket report in a British newspaper?

My bet is any fan of the NFL, NHL, NBA or MLB will be lost in the talk of the wickets, creases, hits for six and the mind-numbing stats.

My old friend Gail Lethbridge highlighted Entrevestor in this superb column on Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurship on Saturday.

Lethbridge, whose column appears weekly in the Chronicle-Herald, makes the case that entrepreneurship is alive and

In the next few months, a Halifax startup will launch an online learning network that will deepen the relationship between some of the world’s leading personal improvement authors and their legions of followers.

The company, sageCrowd, was

Halifax-based LeadSift, whose software finds sales leads for corporate customers, has signed a distribution agreement with HootSuite, the Vancouver startup that allows people to monitor and manage their social media traffic.

The two companies