Alpha Dog Games’ website describes better than I can what it will unleash on the world in a couple of weeks: a “visceral WHACK ‘N’ SMASH action-adventure game in a dark fantasy world.”

Yikes.

Alpha Dogs is a mobile gaming company based in

Springboard Atlantic, the organization that supports the commercialization of research at the region's post-secondary institutions, will host a technology showcase in Halifax on Wednesday in association with the National Angel Summit, which opens

Breviro Caviar Inc, which is commercializing a rare caviar taken from the shortnose sturgeon, has secured a $500,000 venture capital investment from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, bringing its total equity raise to $2.5 million.

Matt Eldridge and Adam MacDonald have decided to follow that age-old advice about working on your greatest passion, and they’ve figured out a way to combine their proficiency in software with their love of golf.

These two veterans of the Moncton

The Regional VC Fund, which launched last week, was created largely to solve the lack of capital in Atlantic Canada.

It was an age-old complaint from entrepreneurs in the region: there simply wasn’t enough capital in these parts to nurture

A Prince Edward Island web designer is crowdfunding for a digital project he hopes will benefit research into diseases or other charitable causes.

Brad Pineau of Charlottetown has created Coding for Cures, a not-for-profit startup that will

TitanFile Inc.’s decision to seek financing from the First Angel Network of Halifax has resulted in an oversubscription of the offering by 86 percent – one of the strongest responses in the history of the angel group.

Dartmouth-based TitanFIle,

The Atlantic regional venture capital fund will be managed by Patrick Keefe, now the Vice-President of Investment at Innovacorp, and include a $5 million contribution from Technology Venture Corp. of Moncton, the three Maritime Provinces announced

In launching their new casual gaming analytics tool dystillr, two Karma Gaming execs have used the technology to unveil some troubling trends at the world’s largest social gaming company, Zynga Inc.

Jay Aird and Duncan Gillis have posted a

The cover story of this month's Progress is my story on Jevon MacDonald's adventure in Silicon Valley, where he spent months raising his A Round for GoInstant. In the story, MacDonald pooh-poohs the rumours that he hit up existing contacts for

Like so many other people with health issues, singer-songwriter Peggy Gillis found the recovery from illness was an economic struggle as well as a physical toil. That was why she turned to the Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Network, or EDN, for

The news Thursday that Prince Edward Island will invest $2.5 million in the Regional Venture Capital Fund is just one of many signs that the fund’s organizers are actively courting more sources of capital.

Three sources familiar with the talks