Invest Atlantic kicks off today in Charlottetown, and it will include my presentation on Entrevestor's startup data for 2017. 

EmerGence, the regional life sciences accelerator, will host a session at 10:30 a.m. that will feature a summary of Entrevestor's 2017 Atlantic Canadian startup data. We've been rolling this data out in articles recently, and you can learn about our findings by attending

The Nova Scotia First Fund, the venture capital fund administered by Innovacorp, invested just over $7.9 million in the year ended March 31, 2018, compared with $8.6 million the previous year.

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia Crown corporation that makes early stage VC investments, released its 2017-18 Accountability Report over the summer, showing an active year with 17 equity investments in 16

Volta Labs in Halifax has accepted eight new tech companies into its residency program. The companies, which range from an e-sports blockchain solution to a cash flow management software will have access to over $50,000 in business-development resources made available to Volta Residents.  

With the official welcome of these companies, Volta is now home to 32 technology startups.

The new

We had some good news and bad news in our 2017 Atlantic Canadian Startup Data report:

1. We had a record year for failures in 2017;
2. Zombie companies accounted for almost one-fifth of the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

In case you were confused, No. 1 is the good news and No. 2 the bad. We needed more failures, and likely need more still.

One of the hallmarks of a healthy startup

Andrew Ray has been named the new Vice-President of Investment at Innovacorp, and he has a singular priority: to see the Nova Scotia venture capital agency make money for the provincial government.

The Crown corporation announced last week that Ray, who has been an Innvovacorp IT investment manager for four years, would succeed Charles Baxter, who retired earlier this year. Innovacorp hired a

A sold-out crowd assembled Friday for Social Media Sydney, in which experts from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. gathered in the Cape Breton city to provide sage advice on using social media.

Organized by Nava Marketing, the event was designed to help business people understand the best ways to get their message out using a range of social media – on both different platforms and different media.

Nature’s Way Canada, a company that produces a wide range of all-natural health products, has formed a partnership with Natural Products Canada, a non-profit that commercializes natural product companies  in Canada.

The two organizations announced their shared commitment to co-invest in early-stage Canadian companies that are developing innovative natural health products in a statement last

The silence has been broken after a few quiet weeks on our job board. Today, in our Jobs of the Week column, we're highlighting three postings from Dash Hudson, a visual media marketing company in Halifax. 

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that  helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for its

It’s difficult to quantify the growth of a startup community year to year, but there is one figure from our 2017 Atlantic Canadian Startup Data report that demonstrates what’s happening in the space.

On Thursday, we're releasing the highlights of the report and explained our findings to key stakeholders at a luncheon hosted by Business Development Bank of Canada. The report contains the best

Hanatech, an IoT solutions company nestled in Bedford, is getting ready to release a new integrated dashboard, called One Smart View, that lets its customers receive and manage their data.

IoT, or the Internet of Things, is a term that refers to the global network of devices, like our phones, computers and tablets, that are all connected to one another via internet and the cloud. IoT companies