The Business Development Bank of Canada is seeing growing optimism among Canada’s small- and medium-sized businesses, with particular strength in the national technology sector and across Atlantic Canada.

The BDC, the business-focused financial institution owned by the federal government, on Monday released its annual survey of 4,000 of those businesses and their intentions for the coming year.

The University of New Brunswick on Monday opened the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, a hub for research, training and industry collaboration that has been backed by more than $4.5 million in funding .

The institute, which has signed on IBM as its first R&D partner, will train skilled cybersecurity professionals and provide leading-edge research into one of the most pressing issues facing

Startup Canada Halifax will hold a seminar titled “What Startups Need To Know about Financial Information” at 4 pm on Jan. 24 at Volta Labs in Halifax.

The event is free and you can register here.

John Hamblin, the head of Startup Canada Halifax, said the event will be an opportunity to learn, network and build contacts.

The program includes:

-- A presentation by Propel ICT highlighting the

In our Job of the Week column today, we’re highlighting an opening for  Chief Technology Officer at Sentinel Alert of St. John’s. The successful candidate could choose to work in St. John’s or Halifax.

Sentinel produces software that can detect when a worker has had an accident or may soon have one. From the outset two years ago, the idea has been that a smartphone or mobile device can detect

With its life sciences segment pretty well doubling in size every four years, Prince Edward Island is on a mission to develop new infrastructure that can sustain that growth.

The PEI BioAlliance, a partnership between the various players in the Island’s life sciences industry, recently revealed a proposal to develop a $30 million to $35 million BioAccelerator complex. The group hopes to build

The Genesis Centre in Newfoundland and Labrador turns 20 this year, a milestone that’s being celebrated with events that include MaRS on the Rock, a new partnership between the Genesis Centre and Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District.

MOTR, which starts on Jan. 27, will see entrepreneurs-in-residence from MaRS visit the province to deliver a 14-week program designed to boost innovation and

Bolstered by signing major new clients, Halifax-based Dash Hudson has quietly closed a new funding round of more than $2 million to further accelerate its growth.

Dash Hudson, which provides data analytics for corporate clients using Instagram, raised money from the regional venture capital fund Build Ventures, which is backing the company for the first time. Innovacorp, the provincial venture

Once again, we are launching our annual survey of Atlantic Canadian startups.

We can’t overstate the importance of this survey to our business. This survey helps to demonstrate to decision-makers the importance of the startup community in the economy. And it helps Entrevestor to continue providing news on the East Coast startup community.

We're asking each Atlantic Canadian startup that was

Two of the leading university entrepreneurship programs in the region – the Summer Institute at University of New Brunswick and Dalhousie University’s Collide program – are looking for participants.

Dalhousie’s Collide Winter 2017 program is a series of entrepreneurial workshops, pitching and networking events to help individuals launch their ventures. The winter program will have a stronger

Build Ventures, the regional venture capital fund, is beginning to prepare for its second fund now that it has just over a year to complete the portfolio of its first fund.

The Halifax-based firm launched in 2013 with a $65-million fund, raised from the four Atlantic Provinces, BDC Capital and private investors. Partners Rob Barbara and Patrick Keefe planned to spend five years investing money