Moncton-native Dan Martell has another exit on his resume.

Tech entrepreneur and angel Martell, who sold Moncton-based Spheric Technologies in 2008, is a co-founder of Flowtown, a San Francisco online gift marketing enterprise, which sold out

VidCruiter, a Moncton-based video recruitment company, will soon expand its product offering with its new VidTrainer function and social sharing features.

CEO Sean Fahey told me in an interview this week that the two-year-old company will

Neurodyn, a Charlottetown-based biotech, is working its way through a $1.5 million round of fundraising, with which it hopes to bring its own natural treatment for Parkinson’s Disease to market in just over two years.

The company, which is

Innovacorp, Nova Scotia’s technology commercialization agency, is hoping at least 100 companies apply by the Oct. 20 deadline for its I-3 competition, a beauty pageant of sorts of startups in the province.

Shelley Hessian of Innovacorp said the

Two social networks have been quietly launched in Atlantic Canada already this year, and a third quasi-social-network is set to launch within a month.

In the up-and-running category, Equals6 and Bright Seeds are Halifax-based social networks

Gerry Pond, the patron saint of New Brunswick tech investors, has made an investment in Charlottetown-based ScreenScape Networks and is joining the company’s board.

A person familiar with the situation said Pond is now backing the company, which

There are people at work in New Brunswick today who will benefit for years to come from the Q1 Labs sale to IBM, and they’re not just the Fredericton-based employees of the security software provider.

They’re teachers, nurses, office workers and

Hoops Innovation, which makes a shooting aid for basketball players, has received more than $200,000 in investment from the First Angel Network and will soon launch a fundraising round in the U.S. with a target of $3.5 million.

The Halifax

Q1 Labs, an online security provider founded in Fredericton in 2001, has been purchased by IBM Corp. for an undisclosed price – the second New Brunswick-born tech company to exit this year.

The sale of Q1, which is now based in Waltham, Ma., but

Halifax entrepreneur and lawyer Jeff Larsen has joined the Nova Scotia Department of Economic and Rural Development and Tourism as the Executive Director of Investment and Trade.

Until last month, Larsen had been an associate with McInnes Cooper

Propel  ICT, the Saint John-based tech accelerator, will reveal a plan this month to work with more entrepreneurs in a program designed to increase each enterprise’s chance of success.

Over the next year, the group plans to implement Propel 2.0,

Business people in the Miramichi Valley are hoping to put together an inaugural equity investment deal in the next three months involving two imaginative funding bodies – The Frank McKenna Technology Fund and Miramichi’s own angel network.

Brian