Chad Munro sees a lot of potential in Atlantic Canada’s medical technology sector, but it needs more players and more of an ecosystem for the benefits to be realized.

The financial rewards can be great, but there are many challenges in building a medtech company, including the long and expensive regulatory process and defending intellectual property.

Munro, the CEO of Halifax Biomedical,

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are two of six provinces that announced Thursday they will allow entrepreneurs to raise equity capital through crowdfunding.

Equity crowdfunding – soliciting equity investments from a range of individuals through an online campaign – has been studied by regulators in Canada and the U.S. for several years. Finally this year, regulators have decided that investors can be protected while allowing companies to raise capital through crowdfunding campaigns.

“Crowdfunding has become a popular method of raising money using websites such as Kickstarter,” Jeff

Aiming to improve its industrial Internet of things technology, Eigen Innovations in Fredericton has landed a $250,000 investment as part of a funding round it hopes will amount to $750,000.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation said Tuesday it will invest in the company, which makes automated systems to help manufacturers refine their processes.

The funding is another step in the development of New Brunswick’s industrial Internet of things cluster, in which automated systems gather data from machines, analyze it and give machines instructions with greater speed and precision than a

The Atlantic Branch of the International Coaching Federation, or ICF, will hold its annual conference in Shediac, N.B., next week.

The 3nd annual ICF Atlantic Summit at the Shediac Multi-Purpose Centre on May 20-21 will feature the theme of Ride the Wave of Coaching. It is geared to professional coaches, those interested in becoming coaches, and other professionals who use coaching skills and practices in their work.

The workshops will include sessions led by:

-  Jonathan E. ‘Jeb’ Bates, an executive coach and leadership development consultant based in Cambridge, MA. He is the Chief

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Innovation Week will take place May 19 to 22 in St. John’s, featuring 15 events through four days. Each event will incorporate this year’s theme – Propelling Innovation.

This is only the second annual Innovation Week, but more than 1,200 people are expected to come to the various events. Innovation Week aims to encourage Newfoundlanders to get involved with the province’s technology and entrepreneurship sectors. Innovation Week is a community event, partnering such organizations as the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Technical Industries, the St.

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

Kinduct partners with STATS.com

Leader in athlete management solutions extends it service offerings by integrating with STATS.com  

HALIFAX, NS – May 8, 2015 -- Kinduct Technologies announced today a new partnership with sports analytics powerhouse STATS.com.

The Kinduct Performance software platform helps sports teams and organizations collect, organize, share and analyze data in one centralized platform, leading to informed decisions and powerful results for their athletes.

A few years after graduating from the Dalhousie University business management program, Mitchell Lesbirel and Casey Binkley are entrepreneurs with a product selling on the Canadian Costco website.

Lesbirel and Binkley are the co-founders of Axle Plastic Inc., a Toronto-based company that has produced FastRack Wine, a wine-bottle drying, transporting and storage system now being sold on Costco.ca.

The launch on Costco’s website is the latest chapter in an entrepreneurial saga that began at Dal, went through one of Canada’s leading entrepreneurship accelerators, and featured a successful

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth multi-channel marketing company, has issued the following press release:

SimplyCast Achieves Impressive Q1 Growth

Marketing automation users have grown by over 650% from Q1 of last year.

The Partnership Program has achieved growth of 310% since Q1 2014.

Automation customer retention rate is at 100% as of the end of March 2015.

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, May 12, 2015 - SimplyCast.com, a global leader in multi-channel marketing Platform-as-a-Service solutions, is excited to announce high growth rates for Q1 2015.

In the first quarter of 2015, SimplyCast has

When Taylor Quinn chatted with Premier Stephen McNeil last November, he didn’t know the discussion would soon lead to the launch of a startup in Toronto to encourage greater participation in democracy.

Quinn is a Dalhousie University student and serial entrepreneur, and he’s co-founder of TownSquare, which aims to encourage a more meaningful discussion between politicians and government officials on one hand and the general public on the other.

“TownSquare sets out to democratize democracy by encouraging dialogue between government officials and citizens,” Quinn said in a phone

The interesting thing about the $500,000 financing of Mycodev Group announced on Wednesday is the company is working with other startups to develop a whole new niche market.

Mycodev’s development will depend to some extent on how quickly these clients can increase demand for the Fredericton company’s product – high-quality chitosan.

“We have some really great early adopters,” said CEO