As improbable as it sounds, Doug Jones has turned a love of sports into a licencing business, then into an innovation hub in Yarmouth and then into an entrepreneurship network for rural Nova Scotia.

Jones is the CEO of Ignite Labs, the innovation hub that he established in Yarmouth to foster entrepreneurship in Nova Scotia’s southwesterly town. Not only has it nurtured a range of companies that

ProcedureFlow , the Saint John company that helps companies’ employees find critical information quickly, has struck a partnership with Deloitte to penetrate new markets in North America and elsewhere.

ProcedureFlow, whose corporate name is Gemba Software Solutions, said in a statement that the partnership reflects the two companies’ ongoing mission to help organizations reduce their training

A new branch of the global Code Ninjas group has opened to allow Halifax-area kids to learn to code by building video games, robotics, and drones.

Aimed at children aged seven to 14, the new centre will host a grand opening on Feb. 1. Complimentary game-building sessions, STEM learning activities and refreshments will be offered.

The Halifax location is operated by Sean Plumridge, who has

Startup Zone, the entrepreneurial incubator in the heart of Charlottetown, had a busy year in 2019, starting an in-house accelerator and co-hosting a MentorCamp. And now CEO Patrick Farrar is looking forward to more activity in 2020.

Patrick Farrar, who left a senior position with Venture for Canada in 2018 to become the CEO of Startup Zone, said the ecosystem in P.E.I. is evolving with a larger

Eigen Innovations, the Fredericton-based artificial intelligence solutions provider, is expanding the role of two senior team members, naming Greg Picot to the role of President and Chief Operating Officer, while Erin Barrett has been promoted to Chief Revenue Officer.

The company issued a press release Monday saying the changes are driven by the demands of Eigen’s growth trajectory and aim to

At Entrevestor, we’re now compiling our most recent databank of Atlantic Canadian startups, and we want to make sure we have every company that launched in the past year.

So we’re asking new innovation-based companies that have been flying below the radar to please let us know you’re out there.  We won’t publicize what you’re doing if you don’t want us to. We just want to make sure we account

A quick study of the Portfolio page on the East Valley Ventures website tells an interesting story about how the Saint John-based investment group has been quietly exiting some companies and investing in others.

In fact, the page shows that East Valley has had three exits in the past 15 months, capped by the year-end sale of Saint John-based Cirrus9 to Toronto’s Carbon60. It was preceded by the

A new investment group called 7th Wave Capital has been launched to support five established businesses a year in the Maritime Provinces.

The new Halifax-based group is headed by Paul LeBlanc, best known for his communications ventures such as Coastal Communications. The 7th Wave group aims to back five companies each year, providing capital and mentorship from some of the region’s leading

The Summer Institute, a 12-week accelerator for young companies from a range of sectors, is looking for applicants for its 2020 cohort, and is especially eager for social ventures to apply.

Now in its seventh year, the program is offered by the University of New Brunswick’s J Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship in Fredericton and accepts applicants from around the

Moncton-based Prelam Enterprises, which specializes in odour control offerings like Just’a Drop and LUKY8, is offering to share its manufacturing facility and expertise to businesses in Atlantic Canada.

“We realized that a lot of small companies are doing it in their kitchen, in their garage, or basement. But if they want to scale up, there’s no real way to do that unless you invest a lot of