Since April, there’s been a post-it on the window frame beside my desk that has only a number and a word written on it. It reads: “486 companies”.

Actually, when I first stuck it up, it read “485 companies”, but I had to add one so I took a black marker and changed the 5 to a 6.

The number 486 became really important to me because it was the number of Atlantic Canadian startups I had identified

Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies is expanding in the San Francisco area as Central Concrete Supply Co. of San Jose has agreed to adopt the company’s technology.

A finalist in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, CarbonCure has developed technology that lets concrete producers cure their product by injecting it with carbon dioxide. This means the concrete industry – one of the largest industrial

Volta Labs in Halifax has announced its plan to increase corporate innovation in Atlantic Canada with its new Corporate Membership Program.

The program is designed to connect corporations and large organizations with the talent and the culture of innovation found at the startup house, and vice-versa.

This announcement comes as Volta prepares to officially open its new 60,000 square foot space

Invest Atlantic, the regional startup conference, is looking for applicants for its PitchCamp workshop and competition next month, as well as entrepreneurs and students to attend the event.

Now in its ninth year, Invest Atlantic is a conference that brings together entrepreneurs, investors and support organizations from across the region. The event will take place in Charlottetown from Sept. 19

Entrevestor’s column on startup founders’ debt last week sparked an interesting discussion on social media, especially in New Brunswick. And today, we’d like to share some of the insights brought out in the online exchange.

The participants dove deeper than we had into the issue, to discuss how student debt can impact the economics of starting a business, and whether a universal minimum income

An Engage Talk on smart cities will be held in Fredericton on the evening of Sept. 6 and will feature a keynote by Srini Srinivasan, President of the United Nations-affiliated World Design Organization.

Presented by Fredericton entrepreneur Mark Taylor, Engage Talks are public sessions that highlight a specific topic, usually one that concerns the innovation or entrepreneurship community. Smart

Launch Dal at Dalhousie University is seeking applicants for its revamped Collide program for the 2018-2019 school year. This will be the fifth cohort of the Halifax-based entrepreneurial workshops and programming that aims to grow early-stage, high-potential startups.

Collide is open to anyone and it’s free to apply. And Launch Dal is doing something different with its application process for

The New Brunswick government has announced a new 135,000-square-foot building in Fredericton’s Knowledge Park to house office space and labs for the province's growing cybersecurity industry.

The $37-million dollar project, called Cyber Park, is set to be constructed by Greater Fredericton Knowledge Park Inc., a Fredericton property management company. To support this, Knowledge Park Inc. is

There are two postings in our Jobs of the Week Column today. One from Dash Hudson in Halifax and the other from Alongside in Moncton.

Alongside is an HR tech company that improves online job recruiting. It aims to help qualified candidates find the right company and in May, Alongside partnered with CareerBeacon to launch an updated recruitment tool for mobile devices.

Today it seeks a Marketing

Three Nova Scotian companies have booked more than $1 million in new sales already this year through the Scale-up Hub: Cambridge – enough that its organizers are looking at repeating the program in 2019.

Launched and overseen by Nova Scotia Business Inc., Scale-up Hub: Cambridge is a new program that establishes a sales base in the Boston area for a few Nova Scotian tech companies. The idea is