The Atlantic Canadian accelerator Propel ICT on Wednesday named the companies that will join its most recent cohort, including a full slate of P.E.I. startups and its first member from Cape Breton.

In naming the 38 companies to its first cohort of 2016, Propel has for the first time outlined a lineup of companies that will receive mentorship in all four Atlantic Provinces. The mentoring sessions

A new accelerator for aboriginal entrepreneurs has been established in New Brunswick, and it’s already witnessing great progress from the five teams enrolled in it.

The inaugural Aboriginal Business Accelerator is operated by the Joint Economic Development Initiative, or JEDI, a not-for-profit that supports Aboriginal participation in the New Brunswick economy. It works closely with the federal

The federal government has announced $14 million in funding for a new institution in Charlottetown that will encourage the commercialization of products developed from natural substances.

Federal Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains made the announcement at the Atlantic Veterinary College last week as part of a wave of funding announcements in Atlantic Canada. Natural Products Canada will research, develop and market natural products and technologies in such fields as neutraceuticals, cosmetics, food, agricultural and veterinary care.

Natural Products Canada

We’re extremely proud today to publish our first quarterly Entrevestor Intelligence report on the Waterloo Region, which highlights the need for KW and Toronto to develop Canada’s Tech Supercity.

This report is now on our site, and printed copies are now available free in such strategic locations as the Accelerator Centre, the Communitech lobby and Velocity. They will soon be available at the

After a dramatic change in its business model last autumn, Halifax-based Clean Simple has raised $575,000 in equity funding, becoming the first Atlantic Canadian portfolio company of the venture capital fund Highline.

Clean Simple licenses software to commercial cleaners that help them communicate and improve efficiency. The company had previously offered a residential cleaning service that took

This week in Jobs of the Week we are featuring two positions located in Halifax, from Proposify and Gracenote, and one opportunity from St. John’s-based Software-as-a-Service company HeyOrca.

Proposify is a Halifax-based SaaS company, and creators of a document-editing software specifically tailored for writing digital proposals. Proposify also captures analytics information such as win/loss

A Halifax-based team that’s developing a treatment for a rare childhood blindness is hoping an international accelerator will help them get their technology to the global market.

Members of a research team based at Dalhousie University, have made it into OneStart, a program which claims to be the world’s largest life sciences and healthcare startup accelerator.

From Feb. 19 to 20, Gordon Simms

We have a request for all new startups in Atlantic Canada: let us know you’re out there.

We’re now developing our list of startups and high-growth companies in Atlantic Canada – all those that were active as of Jan. 31, 2015. We have a list of about 300 companies that we’re familiar with. But the nature of the startup world is that companies are always being formed. So we want to know about new

Spring Loaded Technology has launched the sale of its acclaimed bionic knee brace in a crowdfunding campaign that aims to raise at least US$75,000 – which it almost reached in its first day.

The Dartmouth company announced Wednesday that its Levitation knee brace — which strengthens the joint as well as stabilizes it — is now available through a campaign on Indiegogo. The Levitation normally

It seems I can’t escape a “Best of 2015” or “Trends for 2016” post, so I guess if I can’t beat them, I might as well join them… even if I am a little late to the party.

Here are five predications for startup growth and marketing in 2016.

1. We’ll see less reliance on paid channels.

Paid channels are a go-to acquisition method for many startups.  They fuel quick wins, can easily be adjusted,