Two veterans of the tech marketing community in Saint John have merged their businesses to form Bonfire Communications Inc., which will largely target startups.

Allan Gates’ Redgate Communications has merged with Lise Hansen Design, named for

Quietly and stealthily, Heimdall Networks of Sydney spent last year raising more than $1 million in angel funding and began developing its software that protects corporations and governments against distributed denial-of-service attacks.

CEO Jim

In 2013, I think the Atlantic Canadian start-up community will be akin to the smart twenty-something kid down the street you always thought would do well and you’re waiting to be proven right. He has graduated from university with flying colours

As it works on attracting $500,000 in seed funding, Resolution Optics of Halifax will sign a memorandum of understanding with a Chinese government agency this week to research the growing algae problem in Lake Taihu in eastern China.

The deal

FounderFuel, a Montreal-based accelerator for startups, will bring its roadshow to Halifax – an event that represents more than simply a chance for Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs to meet with the accelerator organizers.

The announcement also

One of the healthy trends we've seen in Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurship is the internationalization of companies' boards -- as I pointed out in an article in the most recent issue of Progress magazine.

Companies like Halifax Biomedical of

Charlottetown drug manufacturer BioVectra Inc. has agreed to sell out to Questcor Pharmaceuticals of Anaheim, Calif., for up to $100 million in cash and deferred payments, in a deal that will give the P.E.I. company the capital needed to pursue

Here’s the term that we’ll be hearing a lot in 2013: Series A.

And my bet is that by the time we welcome in 2014, it will be a term that has happy connotations for some companies and nasty connotations for others.

In the startup world, Series

A year ago, I listed 10 things in Atlantic Canada’s startup community that we should be keeping an eye on in 2012. These weren’t guaranteed to be big stories. But they could be big stories. Here’s what I was watching and my assessment of how they

Unique Solutions of Dartmouth is hiring an investment bank to advise it on striking a strategic relationship with a multinational that could greatly accelerate the development of its customer base and valuable databank.

Founder and CEO Tanya

Serial entrepreneur Baruch Pletner has launched a Halifax start-up to produce sensors that can notify mining companies when machinery operating in remote locations needs maintenance.

Intelligent Dynamics Canada Ltd. is very much in its infancy,

Sociallogical, the social media consultancy formed by former PropelICT executive director Jeff Roach, is developing a scalable product that will allow business to identify their needs in social media and act on them.

Roach joined PropelICT in