GMS Surface Tech, which produces green and odour-free surface cleaners, has received commitments of about $600,000 in a $700,000 second round of funding that it hopes will fund expansion in the U.S.

The company, which was started by

We’d like to welcome Daniel Boltinsky, our new student intern, to the team at Entrevestor. Daniel is a student at University of King’s College in Halifax and his first piece for us is running today.

We’ve asked Daniel to report once every two

Having closed a seed round of funding, Halifax-based social media marketing company InNetwork Inc. is already talking to venture capital funds about a follow-on round, likely in the middle of 2013.

Innovacorp, the provincial innovation agency,

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation said Thursday it is teaming up with the New Brunswick government to provide $1 million to hire technical staff for research at the province’s universities and research institutions.

NBIF, an independent,

I’m pleased to announce that Entrevestor columns are now being published daily in the Chronicle-Herald, Atlantic Canada’s leading newspaper. Each business day starting  today, our columns will be included in the Insider email notice, the print

Sometime in the new year, at a cattle farm in Port Hood, Cape Breton, Chris van den Heuvel will launch a software product that could save thousands of dollars each for hundreds of thousands of North American farmers.

Van den Heuvel is a software

GoVenture World, the Sydney company developing a massively multi-player online game to train budding entrepreneurs on what it’s really like to start and grow a business, has been named to a list of the 50 brightest startups in the world.

The

If you think your startup idea is too early-stage for the Breakthru competition, Calvin Milbury would respectfully like to set you straight.

Breakthru, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s biennial business plan competition, is essentially

A dozen companies from across the Maritimes will gather in Saint John on Saturday to vie for a coveted spot in the second cohort of the Launch36 Accelerator, organized by PropelICT.

Speaking during a break at the National Angel Capital

IPSNP Computing Inc., a Saint John-based startup developing advanced software for searching online databanks, has received $200,000 in funding to advance its lead product, HYDRA.

The company said in a press release that it has secured $150,000

News reports say Salesforce.com is laying off employees at Radian6, which it aquired for about last year. With other commitments, we haven't had time to look into the story so here are a few links to reports from other profiders.

TechCrunch:

When I ran into Patrick Keefe, the new head of the regional venture capital fund, during Atlantic Innovation Week, the one thing he wanted to talk about was the book he’d just finished, Startup Communities by Brad Feld.

Feld is a serial