Entrevestor and Qimple are delighted to announce the launch of our joint job board, which will be the region’s first job posting site targeting the technology, innovation and startup sectors.

The Entrevestor Job Board, powered by Qimple, is now live on the Entrevestor site. It offers the most cost effective way to broadcast your hiring needs and is now offering a special introductory

As a digital research firm operating out of Atlantic Canada, we at Thistlwood wanted to attempt to understand the primary issues and concerns of entrepreneurs and start-ups in Halifax and largely Nova Scotia. We did this by analyzing discussions and commentary from social media and other digital channels online.

This infographic aims to provide a visual sense of the primary concerns of

You’re probably never going to meet two happier entrepreneurs than Kousha and Ehsan Nakhaei, and not just because their startup MouseStats has attracted blue-chip clients.

They’re elated just to be in Nova Scotia.

The Nakhaei brothers arrived in Halifax from Iran this month, having been accepted in the Canadian government’s Start-up Visa program, which allows entrepreneurs to move to

Biofix Medical Technologies, a Halifax company development a bone cement, has won the $45,000 BioInnovation Challenge for 2015.

BioNova, the Nova Scotia Life Sciences association, announced the winners at its annual BioPort Atlantic conference Wednesday in Halifax.  The winner of the fifth annual BioInnovation Challenge will take home $15,000 in a cash investment to cover development costs

When Matt Daigle learned there wasn’t a tool to help home renovators find the most environmentally friendly products on the market, he decided to build one himself. Thus Rise was launched.

Daigle and his three co-founders are creating an online platform to inform renovators about the best materials. They recently took Fredericton’s Rise through the Propel ICT Launch program at Planet Hatch in

Three Nova Scotian biotech companies will compete today for $45,000 in prizes in the BioInnovation Challenge.

The finalists, selected from a final round of six competitors, are Biofix Medical Technologies, Help Method and RetiCAD.

The fifth annual BIC competition is organized by BioNova, BioNB and PEI BioAlliance and is the pitching component of BioPort Atlantic, the annual life sciences

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation invested a record $4.2 million in startups in the 2015 fiscal year, more than twice the figure two years earlier, the not-for-profit agency said in the annual report released Tuesday.

NBIF said it made six investments from its Startup Investment Fund totaling $610,000 and 12 Venture Capital Fund investments totaling $3.23 million. In the previous year,

When Sunil Sharma, managing partner of Extreme Venture Partners in Toronto, attended the Atlantic Venture Forum in Halifax in June, one thing that caught his attention was how “capital efficient” Atlantic Canadian companies are.

In other words, he perceived they can do more with less capital investment than their peers in other locations.

Aside from the non-dilutive financing available to

Ross Simmonds, a mainstay of the online marketing community in Halifax, has launched a tool to help individuals and companies find the content they need to reach a broader community.

Best known for his consulting and blogging work, Simmonds opened Crate for public use last week, and the rapid growth in the first week has him considering whether to raise funding to help grow the business.

Thinking Robot Studios is thinking big.

The Dartmouth 3D printing concern is developing a multi-faceted plant that promises to become a North American leader in the manufacture of medical implants. It has lined up $35 million in financing for the project and plans to develop a state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing facility that will house what may become the largest, concentration of