Brilliant Labs and its partners are looking for high school students in the Maritime Provinces to pitch their ideas for a new product or service in the Superpower Challenge.

Several student teams or individuals from each participating province will win financial and mentor support worth as much as $5,000 to help them develop their idea into a working prototype or service.

Students are asked to propose innovative solutions to real-world problems -- and the solutions must include the use of technology. They must research a problem and develop a proposal to solve it in one of four categories:

Jobs of the Week is beginning February with a couple of opportunities at Halifax’s NewAE Technology Inc.

NewAE has developed technology to assist companies in finding the security weaknesses within their embedded hardware systems. The company is looking for a software engineer/programmer, as well as an electronics hardware engineer/designer.

We’re also highlighting this week opportunities for a

When Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia read about Deloitte Canada’s recent report on the status of women in tech, she had to agree with the dismal findings.

Deloitte looked at the way women are recruited and hired, their retention rates, pay, and paths to promotion, and found cause for concern in all areas.

But Bahr-Gedalia, the President and CEO of Digital Nova Scotia, is also optimistic because she is

Propel ICT, Atlantic Canada’s startup accelerator, has announced a 25 percent increase in the number of entrepreneurial teams applying for its startup programs. 

A total of 162 companies have applied to take part in Propel ICT’s Build and Launch programs in the first half of 2016. 

The growing demand means that Propel ICT will now offer its programming for selected companies twice a year. 

Charlottetown-based icejam, whose technology incorporates real-world, real-time data in free-to-play games, has secured $3 million in equity financing from the Halifax-based venture capital fund Build Ventures.

The investment brings the total raised by icejam to $3.5 million and will help the company launch the first game on its proprietary platform later this year.

The company is a pioneer in

Having landed $525,000 in fresh funding, St. John’s startup Sentinel Alert is gearing up to push its worker safety software into the market across Canada.

The company was one of three Newfoundland and Labrador companies on Tuesday to announce funding from the Venture Newfoundland and Labrador fund and Killick Capital. As well as those two institutional investors, Sentinel also attracted

Three St. John’s tech companies on Tuesday announced total funding of more than $2 million, including financing from the young Venture Newfoundland and Labrador fund and Killick Capital.

Educational game developer Clockwork Fox Studios, marketing collaboration platform HeyOrca!, and worker-safety software provider Sentinel Alert and received funding from a range of investors.

For several years,

Two Halifax medtech companies, ABK Biomedical and Densitas, will travel to San Francisco next month to take part in the Dose of the Valley – a mentoring and networking event for Canadian life sciences companies.

The Bay Area is renowned as the global hotbed for information technology startups, and for years Canadian IT companies have been attending 48 Hours in the Valley – an event that helps

As many of our readers know, the union representing reporters, editors and photographers at the Chronicle-Herald in Halifax is now on strike. We want our readers to know our position during the strike as Entrevestor has contributed three articles a week to the Chronicle-Herald for more than three years.

Entrevestor will continue to place three articles a week in the paper, declining requests from the respective parties in the dispute to increase or cut off our contribution during the disruption.

We’ve taken this position because our company has a long-standing agreement with a client, and

After three years, Conceptualiz brought its vision to life: a mobile application for the iPad that can design orthopedic implants personalized to the patient. The current app is exclusively available for research and educational purposes.

The Halifax- and Toronto-based company’s OSSA 3D surgical planning and implant design platform allows orthopedic surgeons to design personalized implants. The