Eight companies from the Propel ICT Launch program pitched at Demo Day today Tuesday night, seeking in total investment of more than $3 million.

The companies – two from each Atlantic Province -- entered the program at an early stage less four months ago, and displayed in their pitches their paths to their markets.

The companies are:

Airbly

Argyle Shore, P.E.I.

Led by Chris VanHorn, Airbly

In the next three days, 26 Atlantic Canadian startups will pitch publicly in Halifax, and we’d like to help people learn more about them.

The Propel ICT Demo Day at Neptune Theatre tonight, and the Atlantic Venture Forum at the Nova Scotian Westin Wednesday and Thursday both feature pitches by 14 companies from around the region. Two companies, Airbly of Argyle Shore, P.E.I., and WoodsCamp of

Sean Fahey is keeping some impressive company today.

The Founder and CEO of Moncton-based HR software maker VidCruiter is in Washington, D.C., where he is attending the Select USA conference. He’s been meeting with the American ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman, and later in the day will hear a keynote address by President Barack Obama.

It’s interesting that Fahey is visiting the American

Two sales and/or marketing positions and an opening for a full stack IoT developer headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Our offerings this week are located across the region. In St. John’s, Celtx, which makes software for the film industry, has an opening for an independent and energetic person as Vice-President of sales. Dynagen, which makes controllers to automatically start, monitor,

Young entrepreneur Alex Gillis was keen to share his views on education with the Prime Minister when they met earlier this month.

Gillis was one of eight young Canadians, (Halifax-based Sage Franch was another) to be invited to meet the PM to discuss how education has fueled their success.  

“I told the PM there isn’t enough creativity in our school curricula,” said Gillis, who two years ago

BioNova, the Nova Scotian life sciences industry association, has chosen Nature’s Way’s acquisition of Ascenta Health as its good news story of the past year.

The association last night held its annual Good News and Blues festivity – a chance to celebrate a good news story in the biotech sphere, and listen to blues played by members of the life sciences community. And it announced the best news

Moncton-based Qimple, whose software helps companies recruit talent, has raised a $1.1 million round of seed capital from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Toronto-based Green Century Investment.

The funding means the two-year-old company, which last year attended the 500 Startups accelerator in Silicon Valley, has raised a total of $1.6 million. Having launched its product last year,

There’s a new social media platform to connect entrepreneurial Haligonians, and it uses that most ubiquitous of all networking sites, Facebook.

St. Mary’s University student Mike Cyr created a group on Facebook called the Halifax Startup Community on Friday and as of Wednesday it already had 160 members. You can find it here. In true Facebook fashion, it is a place where members can post

Tyler Wish named a Canadian Innovation Leader

Tyler Wish, the co-founder and CEO of St. John’s-based Sequence Bio, has been named one of 10 Innovation Leaders by Navdeep Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development.

Bains announced the 10-member panel on Wednesday while outlining his department’s innovation policies. These policies aim to foster science, entrepreneurship,

Last autumn, Mariner Partners concluded a sizeable transaction the way it does much of its business – quietly.

The Saint John technology conglomerate works with a host of startups, and one that captured a lot of its attention was Shift Energy, an Industrial Internet of Things concern that provides automated energy controls to large facilities. Mariner and several of its principals had great