Scott Stirrett, the Halifax-born Founder and CEO of Venture for Canada, has been named the Telus LGBTQ Innovator of the Year. Stirrett won the national honour for his work at the non-profit that recruits and trains youth to work for Canadian startups.

Stirrett, 26, founded Venture for Canada in 2013 while working as an analyst with Goldman Sachs in New York City. He modeled Venture for Canada

With its fifth anniversary looming, Planet Hatch, Fredericton's startup acceleration centre, has outlined its plan for the next five years and the team that will lead the way.

The team includes new Director Adam Peabody, formerly Investment Attraction & Growth Specialist at Ignite Fredericton, the community’s economic development catalyst agency.

He is being joined by Julia Ramirez, formerly

AioTV, an IT company with a significant development team in Halifax, has closed its doors.

The company was founded by Halifax native Michael Earle, a serial entrepreneur who is now based in Denver. The company had operations in both Halifax and Denver. Earle did not respond to a request for a comment on the company last week, but a person familiar with the situation confirmed it has closed.

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We at Entrevestor were deeply saddened Monday to learn of the passing of Ron Hanlon, the President and CEO of the Halifax Partnership. The city’s economic development body announced that Hanlon died Sunday after a brief illness.

Hanlon was a true champion of the innovation community in Halifax, and saw startups and tech companies as an engine for growth in the city. It was all part of his

Prince Edward Island biometrics company Stepscan (formerly known as ViTRAK) has been quietly raising a round of funding with the end goal of $300,000.

The Charlottetown company makes pressure-sensitive floor tiles that help analyse people's gait to identify walking disabilities or balance issues.

“We sell a medical product,” CEO Crystal Trevors said in an interview. “It’s FDA-, Health

Nexus Robotics, the Halifax-based startup that is building a robot that can identify and remove weeds, has won $30,000 at an agriculture tech challenge in Rockville, Indiana.

The third annual agBOT challenge took place May 17 to 19.  Nexus was a come-from-away win and took home first place in the Weed and Feed Competition, beating out teams from Indiana University-Purdue University of

A student co-op position at Harbr is the only post in our Jobs of the Week Column today.

Harbr is a Halifax company that developed a mobile app for big construction companies to track data and progress on large projects, improving efficiency over time.

The company, which made a commitment to gender parity last year, is looking for a Computer Science or Engineering student to join its

The Atlantic Venture Forum has announced the dozen companies that will present at this year’s event in Halifax.

The sixth annual AVF, which will take place June 28 and 29 at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel, is a meeting place for Atlantic Canadian founders and investors from inside and outside the region. The two-day event will include pitches by six early-stage startups and the same

The National Angel Capital Organization, which represents angel investors from across Canada, is on an offensive to increase investment in Atlantic Canadian startups, and is already working with a few.

NACO earlier this month completed the NACO Academy Roadshow, which held stops in each Atlantic province, taking in about 250 participants. And the group will hold its Atlantic Regional Summit in

Fredericton-based company, Rise, was recognized at the Energy Efficiency Excellence Awards on Wednesday night for its web platform that helps people build energy efficient homes.

Rise received the Innovation Award at the dinner presented by New Brunswick Power. Six New Brunswick groups were honoured at the ceremony that celebrates the province’s innovation and leadership in energy efficiency.