Globetrotting investor Permjot Valia will host MentorCamp for half a dozen Nova Scotian tech startups on Oct. 11. He will accept applications until Friday Oct. 7 from young companies that want to learn about developing businesses from seasoned

ClearRisk Inc., the St. John’s SAAS venture that helps mid-level insurance brokers assess risk, is celebrating its fifth anniversary this month by launching a mobile app.

The company led by Craig Rowe got a major boost this year when GrowthWorks

Daniel Boyd and ABK Biomedical yesterday won the $30,000 BioInnovation Challenge presented by BioNova for its development of OccluRad particles in the treatment of fibroid tumors.

BioNova, the umbrella group for the Nova Scotian biotech

Thomas Rankin of Innovacorp has won national recognition for his work in the cleantech industry, including organizing Canada’s first global competition for cleantech entrepreneurs.

Rankin is in Toronto this week to attend the Clean50 Summit,

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation revealed today that it earned $9.2 million from its Radian6 investment, but the really interesting news was in the final paragraph of the media release.

The not-for-profit organization that finances

Resolution Optics, a Halifax maker of sophisticated microscopes, has hired Sandra Wood as its CEO, building on the trend of experienced business people collaborating with university researchers to commercialize a product.

Wood was most recently

 Fredericton-based Inversa Systems, which makes scanning technology for the construction industry, has raised $500,000 from the New Brunswick Innovation Fund and private venture capital firm, Technology Venture Corp. of Moncton.  

The

Invest Atlantic concluded yesterday with a reasoned plea to allow the coming Regional Venture Capital Fund to make investments beyond the borders of Atlantic Canada.

The fund, being championed by Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, will have a better

In just two years, Invest Atlantic has established itself as a leading forum for an outward-looking and cooperative business policy in Atlantic Canada.

Though conference attendance is down across the country, Invest Atlantic in its sophomore

Editor’s note: We’ve received a lot of emails in the week since we launched, but we wanted to post this one from Orville B. Pulsiver of Grapell Bioenergy. This note spoke to us because it highlights the importance of marrying innovation with

On Friday night, I found myself wishing I’d attended the Moncton CyberSocial’s Angel Den in July. 

I was sitting in the packed auditorium at the Dalhousie University Computer Sciences Building enjoying the ten pitches at DemoCamp Halifax,

We’ve known for months that Radian6 Technologies Inc. was a great deal, but we’re only now understanding just how great a deal it was.

Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association on Wednesday awarded its Deal of the Year to the