The deadline is fast approaching to enter New Brunswick’s Breakthru competition, which offers a total prize pot of $1 million and is open to startups across the country.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has set a deadline of 11:59 pm Nov. 15 to submit an entry.

The innovation agency holds the Breakthru competition every other year with the goal of helping young companies to get off the

Gilfoy Endowment for Entrepreneurship Students

Friends of Neville Gilfoy, the late publisher of Progress Media, have established The Neville J. Gilfoy Endowment in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Dalhousie University.

A gathering was held Monday night in Halifax in memory of Gilfoy, who passed away in July, and the new endowment was announced at the reception.

Don Mills, the Chairman and

Prince Edward Island’s life sciences segment has been doubling in size about every four years, and now the industry’s association has a singular mission: keep it going.

The Prince Edward Island BioAlliance recently released its latest strategy statement, which outlines targets that would effectively continue to double revenues among its private sector members by 2020. It also wants to continue

Startup Weekends will be held in each of the Maritime Provinces on Nov. 18 to 20, coinciding with the Global Startup Weekend.

More than 200 of these events are taking place around the world in the next two weeks, bringing together a total of 15,000 entrepreneurs in such places as Utrecht, Santa Cruz and Bergen. Three of the locations are the Startup Zone in Charlottetown, the Venn Centre in

Spring Loaded Technology, the Dartmouth company that is making a knee brace that adds power to the joint, is looking for two key people as it builds up its team.

The company is advertising on the Entrevestor Job Board for a cost accountant and a logistics coordinator.

Spring Loaded has developed the Levitation knee brace, which gains energy when the knee bends and then releases it when the knee

Nova Scotia’s life sciences sector is one of the big winners of the announcement last week that Innovacorp has received fresh capital for its venture capital fund.

The province announced it will provide $40 million over the next eight years to the Nova Scotia First Fund, the main investment vehicle for the provincial innovation agency.

Innovacorp is one of the few investors in the province for

Propel To Host DemoDay Nov. 29 in Halifax

Propel ICT, the regional tech accelerator for the Atlantic Provinces, will host the Demo Day for its fall cohort Nov. 29 at 5 p.m. at Pier 21 in Halifax.

The organization said 10 companies will present their companies at the event. They include the companies that went through the Build program, which is for more advanced companies. There will also be a

John Hamblin is on a mission to develop entrepreneurship among Atlantic Canadians who don’t quite fit the typical profile of the young, tech-savvy startup types.

The founder of Startup Halifax is spending his time promoting entrepreneurship among the elderly and within Nova Scotia’s rural communities. He’s now scanning the province for community leaders who want to work at developing

Now that ViTRAK Systems has a growing list of paying customers, Crystal Trevors has her eyes set on expanding into the rehabilitation market, especially in the U.S., and a new round of funding.

Trevors is the CEO of ViTRAK, a Charlottetown startup commercializing a pressure-sensitive floor tile systems. The company has developed Stepscan, a patented electronic floor tile system that can be used

Jonathan Medved flew into Halifax on Sunday afternoon, and by Sunday night he was talking about the Nova Scotian companies he’d like to invest in.

Medved, the founder of the Israeli-based equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, was in Halifax to address Startup Grind Halifax, which brings speakers into the city. And he told the 60 attendees at his talk that he’d already met two companies — one a