Ellen Farrell is looking for a few startup founders or CEOs to help with an international venture capital event for students this spring.  

The entrepreneurship prof at St. Mary’s University’s Sobey School of Business is hoping to find two or three startups interested in pitching at the international Venture Capital Investment Competition, which SMU is hosting in March. The startups would be

St. John’s-based Sequence Bio has named Michael S. Phillips as its new Chief Scientific Officer.

Phillips brings more than 25 years of experience in large-scale genomic projects, drug target discovery and leading research teams to the job.

Sequence Bio, which made the announcement Tuesday, plans to lead a large-scale genetic research project in Newfoundland and Labrador, called the NL Genome

EhEye, the Saint John company that uses artificial intelligence and data analytics in video surveillance, has raised $500,000 in funding after courting 250 potential investors.

CEO James Stewart said in an interview Tuesday that the round was led by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, which came in with $150,000. EhEye raised the same amount from friends and family. As well as these equity

Charlottetown-based Nautilus Biosciences Canada Inc., a marine biotechnology company, said Monday it has been purchased by the British specialty chemical-maker Croda International Plc for an undisclosed price.

Founded in 2007 by University of Prince Edward Island Professor Russell Kerr, Nautilus focuses on using marine microbial organisms to discover new bio-medical materials and other products.

Since winning the 100 Seeds Atlantic pitching competition last year, Cat Adalay, the founder and CEO of Aurea Technologies, has taken off with her company, which aims to outfit high-rise buildings with modular wind turbines.

In an interview Adalay discussed how 100 Seeds, a pitching event in which 100 attendees donate $100 dollars to make up the $10,000 cash prize, was the first step in

The need to develop international sales is a hot topic in the region. Entrepreneurs often need to work hard to win introductions. When Danish-born Pernille Fischer Boulter arrived in Nova Scotia, she wrote letters introducing herself to 100 of the province’s top CEOs.

In her new book, Tales from an Immigrant Entrepreneur, the author describes how this enabled her to meet influential people,

The Joint Economic Development Initiative is starting the new cohort of its accelerator for indigenous entrepreneurs today, with a special focus on scaling and exporting.

JEDI, a non-profit that aims to foster Indigenous economic growth, said the 10-week program will accommodate seven companies, ranging in specialties from software development to 3D printing.

Unlike previous iterations of its

We’re about to ramp up our campaign to ask the founders and CEOs of Atlantic Canadian startups to take two minutes to complete our 2017 survey.

We’re working with partners across the region to enhance our annual analysis of the Atlantic Canadian startup community. We believe it will help improve the ecosystem.

Now we need your help. We’ve already received responses from a lot of founders, and

Innovacorp is calling for proposals from private fund managers to oversee an early-stage venture capital fund – a fund whose value has been boosted by 50 percent.

The Nova Scotia government’s VC agency said last month it would invest $10 million in an early-stage fund. But when it released its request for proposals on Friday, Innovacorp said the fund will actually be worth $15 million.

The

Dash Hudson has posted an opening for a Sales Development Representative while Modest Tree Media is looking for an Intermediate eLearning Software Developer in our Jobs of the Week column today.

Modest Tree is a Dartmouth-based Software-as-a-Service company that offers 3D simulation and training software with its Modest3D suite. In today’s column we’re highlighting its search for a software