Entrepreneurs believe they can change the world, but Peter Gifford advises the founders he mentors that their optimism needs to be grounded in reality.

Gifford is entrepreneur-in-residence with regional accelerator Propel ICT in St. John’s. Propel aims to mentor and graduate over 400 startups across Atlantic Canada by 2019. The group is ramping up in Newfoundland and Labrador, where it began

The federal government announced Thursday that it will contribute $9.2 million to Springboard Atlantic, the organization that supports the commercialization of research at Atlantic Canadian universities and colleges.

Navdeep Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and the minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, said ACOA will make the

B4checkin Inc., the company that provides cloud-based software to the hospitality industry, has announced that its payment solution, b4easypost, is now being offered by the American company Agilysys.

Halifax-based b4checkin said this week that b4easypost is now available to users of Lodging Management System, or LMS, Agilysys’ property management system. Alpharetta, Ga.-based Agilysys provides a

Digital Nova Scotia and the Discovery Centre have opened registration for their Digital Discovery Camp,  which offers STEAM programs to nine- to 14-year-olds during March Break in Halifax.

The camp is a curiously interactive camp featuring the elements of science, technology, engineering, arts and math, celebrating each field throughout the week. These include assembling robots, crafting a

Having launched the SaaS version of its product in October, Fredericton’s Envenio is on the hunt for $500,000 in equity funding to help finance the development of its fluid analysis software and push into new markets.

Growing out of intellectual property developed at the University of New Brunswick, Envenio has developed revolutionary computational fluid dynamics, or CFD, software, which it

Ladies Learning Code Halifax will hold its 2017 Kick-Off event on Saturday, teaching women and youth basic programming skills at its Data Processing with Python for Beginners workshop.

Ladies Learning Code is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to be the leading resource for women and youth to become passionate builders -- not just consumers -- of technology by learning technical

Launch Dal, the entrepreneurship program at Dalhousie University, will kick off its winter program with fireside chat with Analyze Re on Jan. 31 at 6:30 pm.

Analyze Re is a Halifax company whose software-as-a-service product helps reinsurers assess risk. It exited in October by selling out to Jersey City, N.J.-based data analytics company Verisk Analytics, Inc. for an undisclosed price.

Analyze

Scott Burke wants to use one of the world’s hottest technologies to improve the lot of homeless people.

Burke is the cofounder and CEO of Hypergive, a new Halifax company developing a stored-value card that allows homeless people to purchase essentials and makes it easier for anyone to help the homeless.

What’s special about Hypergive is that it uses blockchain, the technology that is the

Propel ICT, Atlantic Canada’s IT startup accelerator, has announced the first round of companies selected to its Growth program,  which aims to help established innovation companies grow more quickly.

Veteran technology executive Stephen Palmer, who was formerly the Co-CEO at Fredericton-based Remsoft, has customized the six-month program to meet the specific needs of its participants.

The

CarbonCure Technologies, the Halifax company whose method of making concrete reduces carbon emissions, has been named in the prestigious 2017 Global Cleantech 100, produced by Cleantech Group, or CTG.

The Global Cleantech 100 represents the most innovative and promising ideas impacting the future of a wide range of industries. Featuring companies that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s