If there’s one piece of data that stands out from our study of the Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2016, it’s the number of companies that are gaining meaningful traction.

Last week, at the Halifax luncheon we co-hosted with Charcoal Marketing, we presented our 2016 research on the East Coast startup community to a full house. The highlight of the presentation was our research into exits

Venture Grade, a student-run venture capital fund at St. Mary’s University, has announced its successful bid to host the international Venture Capital Investment Competition.

VCIC is a tri-continental organizationthat hosts competitions at universities around the globe. It has been going on for a decade and no Canadian university has stepped up to the plate to host the event – until now.

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The University of New Brunswick’s summer accelerator program—whose alumni include mental-health awareness clothing line Wear Your Label and energy storage solution Stash Energy – has opened applications for its fifth season.  

The Summer Institute is a three-month-long acceleration program that helps entrepreneurs launch their startup. The J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management &

Volta Labs on Tuesday will host a pitching competition to select five startups that will receive a total of $125,000 in early stage investment in the Volta Cohort.

The Halifax startup house will hold the competition at the Discovery Centre beginning with networking at 5:30 pm. Volta already has a shortlist of 15 companies that will be pitching. You can get tickets for the event here.  

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As she packages orders for her latest Christmas tree ornament—a blended kidney and heart design—Kacy DeLong is simultaneously growing her business, raising funds for kidney research and celebrating her husband’s health-saving transplant.

This is the second year DeLong has been operating DeLong Designs, a New Germany, N.S.-based venture that makes Christmas ornaments cast in heirloom-quality

The group organizing Halifax’s bid for Amazon’s  second North American headquarters has launched its website, AmazonHFX.com, so anyone can see the rationale for the bid.

The bid pits Halifax against more than 200 other cities, including Canadian competitors like Toronto, Montreal and Calgary.

The site provides a snapshot of Halifax’s key business and quality of life advantages and requirements

It’s a little-known fact that IBM’s R&D team for cybersecurity is headquartered in Fredericton — all because of a transformative exit announced in 2011.

IBM that year agreed to buy Q1 Labs, a Waltham, Mass.-based IT startup that had begun in the New Brunswick capital a decade earlier. Q1’s chief technology officer Sandy Bird now heads IBM’s research into the fight against cybercrimes from his

Atlantic Canada needs more startups, more immigrants, greater links with hotspots like Toronto and Boston, and more capital from huge tech corporations, the panel at Entrevestor’s luncheon said Wednesday.

The panel of experts applauded the growth and collaboration in the current startup community. And they outlined how their organizations are going to help that growth to continue in the coming

Modest Tree Media Inc., a Halifax SaaS company that offers 3D simulation and training software, has entered a three-year licensing agreement with the Canadian Department of National Defence.

The agreement lets the department use the company’s Modest3D suite, a software that rapidly creates 3D interactive scenarios, which means anyone can create three-dimensional scenarios and animations without

Red Meat Games, a video game development studio, has expanded its offices into Halifax to develop its new horror-puzzle game, Bring to Light.

“The expansion into Halifax made a lot of sense in terms of financing and talent perspectives,” said Keith Maske, the CEO of Red Meat Games, a video game development company.

Maske, who has more than 15 years of experience in the gaming industry, started