A mating ritual got under way at the Nova Scotia Westin in Halifax on Wednesday as the Atlantic Venture Forum brought together dozens of Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs with investors from across North America.

The third annual forum is a meeting place at which startups from the region can link up with potential investors. There are 21 startups — 12 seed-stage companies and nine more advanced growth-stage companies — presenting to the group, but there is also an array of other startups attending to meet with possible funders. The literature given out at the forum provides fascinating

New Brunswick’s Financial and Consumer Services Commission, or FCNB, is planning a series of education sessions about equity-based crowdfunding.

Crowdfunding is the process of raising money online from a broad range of people. Although it has been used for charitable fundraising and early sales of products, regulators in six provinces (including Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) recently approved the practice for companies raising capital. No company can raise more than $250,000 in a single campaign, and investors are limited to maximum investments of $1,500 per company.

The free sessions,

On the eve of the Atlantic Venture Forum, Brightspark Ventures of Toronto held a reception Tuesday night to outline its plans for Brightspark East, a collaboration with East Valley Ventures of Saint John.

The AVF begins today at the Nova Scotia Westin Hotel, and will allow more than 20 Atlantic Canadian startups to present their companies before investors from across Canada and the U.S.

One of those investors is Sophie Forest, Managing Partner of Brightspark Ventures, who introduced the group’s funding model Tuesday night.

Brightspark is positioned somewhere between a venture capital

The Dalhousie Starting Lean initiative is continuing to mentor young entrepreneurs this summer by hosting the LaunchPad Accelerator and providing seed funding for the teams involved.

Now in its second year, the accelerator allows young companies to develop their business models, conduct customer discovery, gain traction and pitch investors. The eight-week accelerator gave each of the participating teams $10,000 to jump start their company.

Many of the companies were developed in Dalhousie’s Starting Lean class, which allows students to learn about lean methodology and apply those

Unique Solutions Design Ltd., whose scanning technology helps people select the best-fitting clothes, has issued the following press release:

Me-Ality is Oversubscribed for $15 Million Equity Private Placement and Welcomes Seasoned Executive and International Economics Expert to its Board of Directors

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jun 08, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Unique Solutions Design Ltd., (Me-Ality), developer of the only scanner technology able to take precise body measurements while a person is fully clothed, and owner of the world’s largest database of body dimensionality, is pleased to

My enduring memory of the two days I spent last week with the Sydney startup community will be the sight of two developers setting up a chat room for the community as one event was breaking up.

On Friday, we held an Entrevestor Luncheon sponsored by BDO Canada at the Verschuren Centre at Cape Breton University. It was followed by brief presentations from seven of the winners of the first two

You’d tend to have low expectations for a group of tech startups that were seeded with no more than $50,000 each, but the Spark Cape Breton Demo Day on Friday surprised on the upside.

The event in Sydney allowed seven startups to showcase what they have done since claiming a prize in the competition in the past two years. Organized by Innovacorp, the Spark competition gives a maximum of $50,000 to Cape Breton and Mulgrave startups with good business ideas.

About half the winners from the past two years presented at Demo Day and they showed they had either launched a product or we close

It’s accepted that there’s a shortage of capital in the Atlantic Canadian startup community. But here’s another problem that’s less well-known but no less relevant – there is also a shortage of people to manage that capital properly.

The Chief Financial Officer, the oft-overlooked counter of beans, is in short supply in Canada’s east coast startup cluster. And the lack of proper, seasoned

Kinduct Technologies, the Halifax medical-technologies company, has issued the following press release:

Kinduct adds fire power to leadership team

Leading sports and health technology firm welcomes elite-level business leaders to their advisory team.

HALIFAX, NS – June 5th, 2015 – Kinduct Technologies announced today the addition of John Risley and Vikram Rao to their leadership team.

Risley, the President and CEO of Clearwater Fine Foods Incorporated (CFFI), a diversified holding company, has been named as Chairman of the Board. While Rao, a former Managing Director at Scotia

Entrepreneurs Charlotte and Isak Rydlund came up with a unique solution when they couldn’t find a skilled computer programmer in Halifax: they taught themselves to write code.

Now, the contract management system they created has been named a tech startup to keep an eye on.

The Halifax couple is thrilled that their PACTA system has been named one of 25 information and communication