Omers Ventures, the new venture fund set up by the Ontario municipal employees’ pension fund, has begun to reach out to entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada, looking for small companies that want to get big – really big.

The Toronto VC fund received

 The Maritime tech community will celebrate the holiday season with the regular get-togethers Cybersocial in Moncton and Third Wednesday in Halifax.

In Moncton, the lead-in for the Cybersocial on Wednesday Dec. 14 is a mini-workshop titled 

There’s a buzz about venture capital now that’s growing ever louder. The buzz is growing to impressive volumes nationally, but here in Atlantic Canada it’s reaching unprecedented decibel levels.

The numbers are starting to show the reason for

The trophy case for Atlantic Canadian startups gained a positively cluttered look yesterday as GoInstant of Halifax and SimplyCast of Dartmouth both brought home some silverware.

GoInstant, which launched in September with $1.7 million in

The hottest new tech company on Prince Edward Island is disrupting the data asset management market – not to mention a few stereotypes.

DiscoveryGarden Inc. was created by a librarian, who then recruited a religious studies professor, and

Innovacorp has received 65 entries for its CleanTech Open competition, more than doubling the Nova Scotian innovation agency’s internal target of 30.

Innovacorp has said it wants to find the best cleantech entrepreneurs in the world and

As it prepares to host angel organizations from across Canada next October, the Halifax-based First Angel Network is taking a lead in improving the standards of angel investing in Canada.

Ross Finlay, a founding member and de facto executive

PropelICT, the New Brunswick accelerator, has announced it is now accepting applications for its first five-month course in Launch 36.

For full details, please take a look at Propel's announcement here.

PropelICT announced in October that it

A Halifax startup pioneering a device that measures breast density may find its market buttressed by a wave of legislation sweeping the United States.

Densitas is a seed-level company launched by Dalhousie Associate Professor Mohamed Abdolell

Customer relationship management giant Salesforce.com  yesterday unveiled its first step in integrating Radian6’s social media monitoring capabilities into its own suite of CRM services.

The San Francisco company, which earlier this year bought

Bedford-based software company NewPace announced yesterday that it has secured two loans worth a total of $850,000 from Business Development Bank of Canada to develop and market its suite of services, which will soon include a new mobile telecom

Halifax-based Tether announced overnight that it has extended its award-winning app – which allows simple and affordable laptop connections through smartphones – to iPhones. 

Originally known as TetherBerry, Tether first released its product for