BDO Canada is looking for startups from across the country interested in pitching to venture capital investors at an event in Toronto on March 8.

The business consultancy and accounting firm is seeking applications for its first investor pitch day, which it calls Connecting with Venture Capitalists: Face to Face. Applications are open until Feb. 10 for the event, which will feature 10 startups pitching to at least four VC funds.

“We’re looking for some of the best startups across the country to be represented at this event, including both seed capital early stage startups as well as those

Singolar, a Wolfville, N.S., startup that uses advanced intelligence to help companies improve client interactions has been selected to attend the Canadian Technology Accelerator in Silicon Valley this winter.

The company – which now has two clients and is working on its first funding round – has developed algorithms that can help companies to better understand how to interact customers. It

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