Scene Sharp Technologies Inc., a Fredericton software company that improves the quality of colour digital photography, has closed a $300,000 round of angel financing, which it hopes will help to commercialize a new product for security cameras.

It was appropriate to have breakfast with Gerry Pond on the morning of Invest Atlantic last week, for it was during the same event a year earlier that I first heard him speak about the need for a regional entrepreneurial community.

So, just

Having raised more than $2 million in total financing, Charlottetown-based ViTrak is preparing to beta-test its Stepscan footprint analysis technology, which has applications in healthcare, security and sports.

The pre-commercial company is

We can’t count the great speakers we heard during Atlantic Innovation Week, but we did jot down a few of their more interesting quotes. Here’s a selection of our favourites:

“Traction is the new IP.”

-- Boris Wertz, Angel Tech Investor

Performance Genomics Inc., which uses genomics to identify the most fertile animals in a herd to increase the reproduction of livestock, won a highly competitive BioInnovation Challenge at BioPort Atlantic on Thursday, walking away with $40,000 in

Olympian-turned-tech-executive Julia Rivard will travel to Toronto this weekend to unveil Pursu.it, a new platform to allow Canada’s leading athletes to use crowdfunding to raise the money they need to achieve their dreams.

The Senior Partner at

East Valley Ventures, the business development group headed by investor Gerry Pond, is in the process of hiring a full-time recruitment executive who will help Atlantic Canadian startups locate key executives, especially among new Canadians.

For two of the companies pitching at the BioInnovation Challenge today, the $30,000 contest will serve as a precursor to the prestigious AdvaMed conference in Boston next week.

Mindful Scientific and Dartmouth Medical Research Ltd. are among the

Invest Atlantic, the premier conference for investors and entrepreneurs in the region, takes place today with a keynote speaker from Arkansas and a generous infusion of entrepreneurs.

Jeff Amerine, Technology Licensing Officer of the Adjunct

Less than a year after it received its first press coverage, medical device company Densitas Inc. is positioning itself to have a market-ready product for testing within a year with a commercial launch planned for the first half of 2014.

Having struck a partnership with York Bridge Enterprises of Toronto, Halifax-based Novawise Inc. is mapping a path that it hopes will lead to booking annual revenues of $4million by the end of next year.

Novawise, headed by CEO David MacKinnon

Springleap of Capetown, South Africa, and LeadSift of Africa have been named the two top companies appearing at MentorCamp Atlantic Canada 2012, a one-day forum of advice and learning for nine startups and 37 mentors.

Permjot Valia, CEO and