Patrick Keefe’s column on Friday drew big response from readers, both on Entrevestor and social media, and we’d like to share some of the feedback with you.

Keefe, a Partner at Build Ventures in Halifax, wrote a response to the analysis conducted by the global consultancy EY and Entrevestor, showing the cost benefits of Halifax over Silicon Valley.

Keefe countered in a piece on the Build

A subsidiary of Chinese optics manufacturer Guangzhou Bosma Corp. has invested $500,000 in Halifax’s 4-Deep Inwater Imaging, expanding the microscope-maker’s R&D and distribution capacity.

The companies said in a statement today that Bosma USA will invest in the Halifax company and that the two companies will establish a joint research and development facility in Silicon Valley.

Bosma is

One of our unquestioned assumptions when we closed the Build Ventures’ fund in 2013 was that launching a startup in Atlantic Canada was cheaper than doing it in other parts of Canada or the United States. Our location, at least in this respect, was thought to be a competitive advantage.

There are certainly challenges to building a company here given the early stage of our ecosystem, but we

Many in the packed house at the FullSail conference in Fredericton on Wednesday very quickly learned that their preconceptions about crowdfunding were mistaken.

The conference on crowdfunding, organized by the Financial and Consumer Services Commission, featured several experts in crowdfunding, people who have gone through the process at least once, and stripped away the myths about it being

Innovacorp, Nova Scotia’s provincial innovation agency, invested a total of $5.9 million in 14 companies in the fiscal year ended March 31, including a previously unannounced $1 million funding of Halifax-based QRA Corp.

The data are contained in the Crown corporation’s accountability report for the 2014-15 fiscal year, which was released a few months ago but has not been reported on. [Full

When Freescale Semiconductor put together its Internet of Tomorrow Tour last year, it included an exhibit on a little-known piece of Atlantic Canadian technology many of us would prefer stayed underground.

Based in Austin, Texas and valued at US$11 billion, Freescale assembled a mobile exhibit in a truck to educate its customers and the public about the wondrous things the Internet will do in

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

SimplyCast is a Finalist for Three Awards

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, November 17, 2015 – SimplyCast, a global leader in marketing automation, is excited to announce that have they been selected as a finalist for three 2016 Halifax Business Awards. These awards are presented by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.

SimplyCast has been selected as a finalist for Business of the Year and Innovative Business of the Year. As well, Saeed El-Darahali, President and CEO of SimplyCast, has been selected

GoVenture World, the long-anticipated business education game devised by Sydney serial entrepreneur Mathew Georghiou, has been shortlisted for Microsoft’s competition to find the best new game in Canada.

Georghiou is best known as the CEO and founder of MediaSpark, whose GoVenture product is a series of educational digital games that have been used by more than one million people around the

It is a time of change and growth for the regional accelerator, Propel ICT.

As it undergoes changes in senior management with the departure of St. John’s-based CEO Gary Dinn and Halifax-based Entrepreneur-in-Residence Ying Tam, Propel ICT is preparing for its first cohort of 2016 with a broader geographical reach than ever before.  And it is working on doing more to support the companies that

Halifax-based STI Technologies has been named to the Deloitte Fast 50, the first Atlantic Canadian company to make the list of the fastest–growing Canadian tech companies in three years.

Deloitte Canada released the list on Thursday, placing STI in the 41^st place with revenue growth of 204 percent over the past four years. On Friday, Deloitte named STI to its North American Fast 50 list,