With her varied and adaptable work life, Angela Mombourquette considers herself a very modern journalist. The establishment of her website, LifeAfterGluten.ca, has also made her an entrepreneur.

Now, in addition to freelance writing and teaching journalism, she is learning how to monetize her site and build a community of users.

The site was created after Mombourquette was diagnosed with celiac

There`s an event taking place in the Moncton area on Wednesday afternoon that highlights one of pressing needs for Atlantic Canadian startups – the need to for established corporations in the region to work with tech entrepreneurs.

At this month’s Moncton CyberSocial, there will be a series of presentations on the McCain Food group’s partnership with two New Brunswick startups, Resson Aerospace

Xiplinx Technologies Ltd., the New Brunswick company that helps consumer packaging manufacturers improve product line efficiency, has raised a total of $650,000 in capital after its recent graduation from the Propel ICT tech accelerator.

The core of the funding round came from Propel’s funding partners: a $150,000 convertible note from BDC Capital and a $100,000 investment from the New Brunswick

Canadian businesses hoping to break into international markets can now apply for financial assistance from a new federal program announced Tuesday at Communitech.

The new program called CanExport intends to encourage small and medium-sized Canadian businesses to participate in global markets by reimbursing companies for as much as 50 percent of the costs associated with becoming export-ready.

ClearPicture plans to release a second version of its mobile survey application, JUDI, at the end of January, having released the first version on Nov. 4.

ClearPicture has been creating online surveys since 1995. The Halifax-based company was one of the first in the online survey industry. It offers surveys to capture insights around things like employee engagement, community newspaper

Happy New Year, everyone. As we get into the groove of being back at work, let’s take a look at five things to look out for in the Atlantic Canadian startup segment in 2016.

Herding gazelles

A gazelle, in business-speak, is a company that has increased revenues by at least 20 per cent annually four or more years in a row, starting from a base of at least $1 million. Ten to 20 of these beasts

Halifax-based sports genetics company Athletigen Technologies Inc. has raised more than C$2 million to help to fund the growth of its flagship product, the Athletigen Performance Platform.

The company said in a statement today that the financing was led by Exponential Partners, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based venture capital fund that specializes in health and human performance innovations.  It

Entrevestor and Qimple have launched the Entrevestor Job Board, which helps to match job openings and candidates in the tech and startup communities.

Today we’re featuring the latest posts on the board from companies based in Toronto, Halifax and Fredericton. This is part of our Jobs of the Week feature, which appears on Entrevestor each Monday morning.

Until Jan. 31, you can post job openings

What a year it’s been! The tech and innovation communities in our markets have been on fire and we’ve had the joy of chronicling it for all of you.

From the Breakthru competition in New Brunswick to Innovation Week in St. John’s to several conferences in Halifax, the startup groups across Atlantic Canada had another great year. And we were overwhelmed by the great reception we received as we

Three students at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax are toiling away on a social venture that could soon help improve education in Africa.

SeeMePly is a nascent company dedicated to simplifying the process of finding and applying to private secondary schools in Africa. Its co-founders, Shawn Simamba from Zambia, Samuel Ayanlaja from Nigeria and Stephanie Winter from the Caribbean island of