Eigen Innovations is returning to Fredericton with a US$25,000 cash prize from placing third at the second annual Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge, but the money may be the least of the benefits.

The New Brunswick Industrial Internet of Things, or IIoT, startup was named one of six finalists last month in the pitching competition at the IoT World Forum in Dubai. On Tuesday, Eigen was named

Today we’re wrapping up our first week of highlighting the jobs available on the Entrevestor Job Board, which is powered by Qimple.

Entrevestor and Qimple last month launched this job board, which helps to match job openings and candidates in the Atlantic Canadian tech and startup communities. Until Jan. 31, you can post job openings on the site for only $25 each.

We highlighted jobs in

About 500 students and faculty packed the Student Life Centre at the University of Waterloo last month and saw why their school is often called Canada’s MIT.

The space resembled a food court at any mall, but there was a rare buzz in the air Nov. 26 as 10 companies competed to grab a share of more than $100,000 in prize money being awarded that day by the Velocity Fund. Velocity is the

This week, we are kicking off our Jobs of the Week feature to highlight Atlantic Canadian tech and startup openings that have been posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which is powered by Qimple.

Entrevestor and Qimple last month launched this job board, which helps to match job openings and candidates in the Atlantic Canadian tech and startup communities.

Until Jan. 31, you can post job

The organizers of the first Atlantic Canadian version of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards are looking for entries from undergrads in the region who run their own businesses.

Organized by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, the GSEA program is designed to help undergraduate students who own and operate businesses to promote their companies and value proposition by competing with other

CarbonCure Technologies will enter the ready-mixed concrete market due to its recent partnership with Vulcan Materials Company, the largest U.S. producer of construction aggregates and a major producer of construction materials.

Five to 10 percent of all carbon emissions come from the concrete industry. CarbonCure, based in Dartmouth, attempts to reduce this percentage by converting carbon

Today, for the first time, we will post Jobs of the Week, to highlight Atlantic Canadian tech and startup openings that have been posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which is powered by Qimple.

Entrevestor and Qimple last month launched this job board, which helps to match job openings and candidates in the Atlantic Canadian tech and startup communities.

Until Jan. 31, you can post job

As Joni Mitchell sang, ‘you don’t know what you got till it’s gone’. In Christian Weisenburger’s case, it wasn’t until he was on the brink of changing career and moving to Europe that he realized that, after all, he wanted to stay in Halifax and practice law.

Many would be surprised to learn that Weisenburger, who is well-known for his love of Halifax and for his legal work in Nova Scotia’s

The Startup Canada Awards ceremony at the CN Tower on Tuesday focused foursquare on the country’s future, paying special attention to the potential of the native community and on one young entrepreneur, 17-year-old Alex Gillis of Halifax.

The Canadian entrepreneurial organization presented awards in eight categories, and Atlantic Canada came away with two of them – Gillis for young

Having spent decades promoting innovation in the economy of Canada and its eastern provinces, Jacquelyn Thayer Scott is frustrated that the country is actually regressing compared with its peers.

Scott is the Past President and professor of organization management at Cape Breton University, and will step down this month as the Chair of Innovacorp. And for several years she has been the lone