ACOA Funds Venture for Canada Program

Top university graduates from across Nova Scotia in June will begin two-year paid fellowships at some of the province’s most promising emerging and early-stage startups. The Government of Canada on Friday announced a $45,450 contribution to enable Venture for Canada to create the infrastructure needed to place six fellows at venture-backed Nova Scotian companies. The non-repayable contribution comes through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Business Development Program.

A new Nova Scotia Program Director will work to close a gap between

Ubique Networks Inc., a Sydney startup that reduces the lag in multiplayer online games, has landed venture capital funding from Toronto-based Extreme Venture Partners and Innovacorp of Halifax.

The funding announcement was one of two announced by Innovacorp on Thursday. The venture capital fund also said it provided half of a $1 million funding-raising round by Halifax-based SkySquirrel

After a quarter-century of helping Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs3.0 is closing down.

The non-profit organization formerly known as Entrepreneurs’ Forum announced Thursday that its board has decided to cease operations due to financial constraints.

Entrepreneurs’ Forum was probably best known for its mentorship dinners, in which a select group of mentors would have a meal with an entrepreneurial team and work through their challenges. They often led to long-standing relationships.  As Entrepreneurs3.0, or E3, the organization enhanced its programing to include

With his focus on entrepreneurship, new technologies and immigration, Akram Al-otumi is working hard to grow the population and economy of Nova Scotia, his adopted home.  

Halifax-based Al-otumi is a Co-Founder of 3D Next, which he set up in 2012 with Montreal-based Michael Groenendyk. The partners sell and install Tinkerine DittoPro 3D printers and train buyers to use the technology.

Eyeball Inc., the Bedford company that’s developed an online network for amateur sports, has launched a new web-based platform for league and tournament organizers.

The company said in a statement today it has formed a partnership with the 2016 SEDMHA Honda Minor Hockey Tournament,  a 240-plus-team event that will use the new platform.

Founded by tech vets Jay Steele and Shaun Johansen, Eyeball

Interviewing MediaSpark CEO Mathew Georghiou about his new Kickstarter campaign is a surprising experience. You start talking about the crowdfunding of his new board game and end up hearing about his growing portfolio of high-growth businesses.

Here’s the news we set off discussing: Sydney-based MediaSpark has launched a crowdfunding campaign for two table-top card games under its GoVenture

Today we are launching our annual survey of Atlantic Canadian startups -- a key component in allowing us to provide you with news on the East Coast startup community. 

We're asking each Atlantic Canadian startup that was active in December 2015 to complete this confidential survey for the good of Entrevestor and the community it reports on. If you believe, as we do, that Entrevestor helps in the

Atlantic Venture Forum, an investor conference that showcases startups on the Canadian East Coast, is looking for founders to present at this year’s event June 22 and 23 at the Westin Nova Scotian in Halifax.

Applications to present at the event close tomorrow and can be found here.

Now in its fourth year, the AVF each year has allowed more than 20 companies to present before the audience,

There are two big things Patrick Kiely hopes his company Island Water Technologies will accomplish in 2016: one he is certain will happen, and the other he hopes will happen.

Montague, P.E.I.-based Island Water Technologies, which uses its unique technologies to treat wastewater in small communities or outlying areas, is now working with three distributors to sell its ClearPod product across

The new executive-in-residence at University of New Brunswick teaches his students more than how to develop, fund and sell a product.

David Wagner can also teach them the importance of luck and timing, and that sometimes they go against you.

For almost 10 years until October 2015, Wagner was President and CEO of Fredericton-based Atlantic Hydrogen Inc., a company that developed the CarbonSaver