At the Entrevestor Luncheon in Sydney in the spring, it didn’t take long for the 100-plus attendees to zero in on one essential thing missing in the local ecosystem – an incubator.

The event, which was sponsored by BDO Canada, asked the diners to discuss how the ecosystem could be improved. And while most people enthusiastically applauded the mentors in the Cape Breton city, they thought

A thorough redesign of the B4 Change program at the University of New Brunswick will assist social entrepreneurs by working with regional partners to deliver more tailored and individualized programming.

A social entrepreneur is someone who founds a for-profit or non-profit venture with the aim of addressing a social or environmental issue. The sector is increasingly relevant as charities

Health QR, the Halifax startup whose mobile app helps patients improve success with their medical prescriptions, launched its product in a reception at the Volta startup house last night.

As well as launching the product, the two-year-old company is spreading its wings. CEO Patti Ryan is taking it through the Canadian Technology Accelerator in Philadelphia, which specializes in health-related

Backed by $2.7 million in venture capital funding, Immunio is rapidly gaining clients for its software that battles breaches of company data.

The Montreal- and Dartmouth-based company aims for ease of use in its product that allows companies to embed protection, offering greater security and flexibility than a firewall.

“Our protection is actually inside the application,” said Chief

Calvin Milbury hopes New Brunswick improves its standing the next time the Conference Board of Canada ranks the innovation performance of Canadian provinces. And the President and CEO of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is taking steps to improve the performance.

For example, NBIF is participating in the Conference Board’s conference on innovation in Fredericton next month.

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When John Quimby and Kyle Hoar attended the Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge in Moncton to get out of school for the day, they couldn’t have known it would be the birth of a business venture.

The two 15-year-olds presented their science fair idea: to use the water going down the drain to generate energy. They won the Challenge—in the 18- to 35-year-old category.

Now both 16 and in Grade 11,

Modest Tree Media Inc., a Dartmouth-based simulation and training software company, has teamed up with RaceRocks 3D Inc., a Victoria-based education technology company. Together, they will work on the training for a upcoming Canadian defence procurement, Project Resolve. 

Chantier Davie, Canada's largest shipbuilder, and Project Resolve Inc. recently acquired a European container ship and

Affinio, the Halifax-based company that uses social media analysis to identify communities for marketers, has raised a $4 million Series A venture capital round led by Whitecap Venture Partners of Toronto.

The other members of the investment group are Halifax-based Build Ventures – which was the lone investor in Affinio’s $1.5 million seed round two years ago – New York-based Social Starts,

In his new role as a diplomat, David Alward was relaxed and jovial as he welcomed a busload of startup founders to the Cambridge Innovation Centre, just across the Charles River from Boston.

The former New Brunswick premier is now Canada’s consul general in the Massachusetts capital, and part of his job is overseeing the Canadian Technology Accelerator in Boston. New Brunswick politicians

Innovacorp on Monday released the list of finalists for the regional and sectoral contests in the I-3 Technology Startup Competition.

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia innovation agency, holds the competition every second year with the goal of encouraging aspiring entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into businesses as they go through the contest. Some 188 companies entered the competition, and