The first Entrevestor Dinner will be held in the Fredericton area May 12, and we hope it will offer members of the startup community a chance to plan lasting improvements to the regional startup ecosystem.

Held with the assistance of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, the discussion-and-dinner event will feature working sessions in which participants will discuss ways to enhance the startup ecosystem. We didn’t think the community needed another dinner with a speaker, but there are serious issues facing the startup industry in the region. The Entrevestor Dinners seek to identify and

After 14 years in startup wilderness, Halifax biotech company Immunovaccine (IMV) and its Chief Operating Officer Dr. Marc Mansour are exactly where they need to be. With data from clinical trials demonstrating the effectiveness of the IMV patented vaccine-delivery system, the company may soon see its technology lessening everyday scourges like flu and cancer as well as uncommon diseases, such

The Pond-Deshpande Centre has issued a press release announcing its Social Enterprise Development Dialogue this week: 

Second Social Enterprise Development Dialogue attracts talent from Toronto to Boston

April 15, 2014

Fredericton, NB - The Pond-Deshpande Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Saint John Community Loan Fund are proud to present ecosystem2enterprise; ideas for a new economy, the 2nd Annual Social Enterprise Development Dialogue, April 24 and 25, 2014, Saint John, New Brunswick.

The Dialogue is for community-minded citizens from all sectors, the general

Entrevestor, Volta and PropelICT are pleased to announce we will soon produce the first directory for the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

Modeled on the directory put out by Communitech in Kitchener-Waterloo, the Atlantic Canadian Startup Directory will provide the names and contact details of all the participating startups in the region. It will also provide similar information on tech service companies and support organizations.

Our goal is to have a single resource where we can find the names and details of all members of the community, broken down by both province and sector.

Three young tech companies – two of them from Halifax – are working with the Capital District Health Authority to commercialize their products while accelerating the treatment of patients with mobility issues.

On Wednesday, the Halifax area’s district health authority launched Mobility at Capital Health, a $2.6 million project that will use existing and developing technology to assess whether people need orthopaedic surgery and help them to heal regardless of the treatment. (Mobility at Capital Health is abbreviated as “M@ch”, pronounced “Mach”, as in a measurement of speed.)

The

Oris4, the Halifax software company that has developed a cloud-based document-organization system, has raised $1.3 million in funding from Nova Scotia Business Inc. and GrowthWorks Atlantic.

NSBI announced Wednesday it would make its first investment of $1 million in the company, whose corporate name is 2nd Act Innovations. GrowthWorks invested in the company previously and has added to its stake with a $300,000 investment.

The funding comes as the company is increasing its reach in the U.S. with the opening of its first New York office. The firm already has a presence in Silicon

A young New Brunswick company is making it easier for employers to extend their reach when looking for new employees.

Moncton-based Qimple has developed an automated process that helps employers to carefully assess where they are posting their job openings. It automatically posts jobs in the best places possible and screens the responses – all with the goal of increasing the likelihood of finding top-flight candidates.

Employers looking for employees these days usually post their vacant positions on job boards, hoping that the perfect candidate will pop up. But the problem is there are

Smart Skin Technologies, the Fredericton company that has commercialized a pressure-sensitive surface material, issued the following press release last week:

Smart Skin Expands Global Reach with New Executive Vice President for Europe

Brewing Expert Dr. Ing. Andreas Weideneder joins the Smart Skin Team

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada -- Smart Skin Technologies Inc., the global leader in pressure management solutions for the bottling and packaging industries, announced today that Dr. Ing. Andreas Weideneder, of Gammelsdorf, Germany, has joined the company as Executive Vice President

The organizing committee for the KIRA Awards– which recognize excellence in the knowledge industry in New Brunswick – has named its 2014 finalists, which include several members of the startup community.

The winners will be named May 15 at a dinner at the Fredericton Convention Centre. Following is the announcement from the organizing committee:

Fredericton—April 14, 2014 –The KIRA Organizing Committee is pumped to announce the 2014 KIRA Finalists (With a Little Help From Our Friends)

“This year marks the 16th Annual KIRA Awards and again we are impressed with the number of