RtTech Software of Moncton and 17-year-old Alex Gillis, the CEO of Halifax-based Bitness.io, have won national 2015 Startup Canada Awards.

The Ottawa-based organization announced Tuesday that RtTech, an Industrial Internet of Things company, had won in the Innovation category, while Gillis had captured the top award as a Young Entrepreneur.

Atlantic Canadians have captured two of the nine

It doesn’t take long in an interview with Kumaran Thillainadarajah to understand why Deloitte named his business, Smart Skin Technologies, to its list of companies to watch in Canada.

In the last two years, the Fredericton firm has installed its technology in 45 plants owned by some of the largest beverage producers in the world, and sales are growing rapidly. Smart Skin, which raised $3.9

Cisco Systems Inc. has named Fredericton-based Eigen Innovations one of six finalists at the Innovation Grand Challenge, the pitching competition at the prestigious Internet of Things World Forum on Dec. 7 in Dubai.

Eigen has developed algorithms that allow machines to respond automatically to messages from sensors – a classic Internet of Things, or IoT, application. It is one of 3,000

Emily Miller recently spent a month at the Halifax Central Library curating information on various Maritime and Ontario startups – she really wanted to work in the startup space. A political science major at St. Francis Xavier University, Miller used her research skills to prepare for her interview with Venture for Canada, or VFC, an organization that partners young people with Canadian

Patrick Keefe’s column on Friday drew big response from readers, both on Entrevestor and social media, and we’d like to share some of the feedback with you.

Keefe, a Partner at Build Ventures in Halifax, wrote a response to the analysis conducted by the global consultancy EY and Entrevestor, showing the cost benefits of Halifax over Silicon Valley.

Keefe countered in a piece on the Build

A subsidiary of Chinese optics manufacturer Guangzhou Bosma Corp. has invested $500,000 in Halifax’s 4-Deep Inwater Imaging, expanding the microscope-maker’s R&D and distribution capacity.

The companies said in a statement today that Bosma USA will invest in the Halifax company and that the two companies will establish a joint research and development facility in Silicon Valley.

Bosma is

One of our unquestioned assumptions when we closed the Build Ventures’ fund in 2013 was that launching a startup in Atlantic Canada was cheaper than doing it in other parts of Canada or the United States. Our location, at least in this respect, was thought to be a competitive advantage.

There are certainly challenges to building a company here given the early stage of our ecosystem, but we

Many in the packed house at the FullSail conference in Fredericton on Wednesday very quickly learned that their preconceptions about crowdfunding were mistaken.

The conference on crowdfunding, organized by the Financial and Consumer Services Commission, featured several experts in crowdfunding, people who have gone through the process at least once, and stripped away the myths about it being

Innovacorp, Nova Scotia’s provincial innovation agency, invested a total of $5.9 million in 14 companies in the fiscal year ended March 31, including a previously unannounced $1 million funding of Halifax-based QRA Corp.

The data are contained in the Crown corporation’s accountability report for the 2014-15 fiscal year, which was released a few months ago but has not been reported on. [Full

When Freescale Semiconductor put together its Internet of Tomorrow Tour last year, it included an exhibit on a little-known piece of Atlantic Canadian technology many of us would prefer stayed underground.

Based in Austin, Texas and valued at US$11 billion, Freescale assembled a mobile exhibit in a truck to educate its customers and the public about the wondrous things the Internet will do in