Innovation PEI’s Ignition Fund deadline on Friday

Applications for Innovation PEI’s Ignition Fund – which offers $25,000 to launch or expand a business on P.E.I. – must be submitted by Friday.

“The fund is proving popular again this year as evidenced by the number of participants attending Ignition fund information sessions across the province this past spring,” said Economic Development and

Kevin Sullivan had the pride of a guy showing off his new Cadillac. But it wasn’t a car he was displaying, it was the new laboratory that his company had recently moved into.

The company is Halifax-based drug discovery outfit Appili Therapeutics Inc., which in May announced $3.3 million in funding, comprising equity, debt and grants. On the same day, Sullivan unveiled the company’s new lab in

Halifax native Rebecca Haliburton moved to Vancouver to work as the marketing manager for the tech education company, Lighthouse Labs. Six weeks later, the company told her that they would be expanding their software and app development bootcamps to her hometown.

“I’m really stoked to be able to bring back everything that I love about my job in Vancouver back to my hometown,” she said. “I know

Young Atlantic Canadians, and the region’s economy, are missing out because young people don’t understand the rewards of a career in sales, according to professionals at executive search firm Venor.

“Many youth are unaware of sales, and some are intimidated by it. Negative stereotypes, such as the used car salesman, persist,” said Chantal Brine, Vice President, Youth Employment at the

The University of New Brunswick’s Summer Institute will hold its graduation Friday night, with presentations by seven companies spanning the entrepreneurial spectrum.

Organized by the J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship, the Summer Institute is a three-month program that teaches a range of businesses the human element of entrepreneurship. While other mentoring

With the passing of Neville Gilfoy, Atlantic Canada has lost three types of people that are in short supply – journalists, salespeople and genuine wits.

Gilfoy was the founder and publisher of Progress Media, and I had the pleasure of writing for his publication for more than a decade. “Pleasure” is the operative word in that sentence, because it was fun to be in Gilfoy’s presence. He had a

The Invest Nova Scotia Fund on Tuesday announced a pair of grants totaling more than $1.5 million that will support the ecosystem for startups, especially in Cape Breton.

The fund — which aims to invest in the ecosystem rather than in individual companies — issued a statement saying it would provide $1.2 million in funding to Propel ICT, the regional tech accelerator. It also said it would give

A Halifax medical technology company has a basic aim: to make anesthesia safer.

DMF Medical plans to release its signature product, Memsorb, in the next year and hopes it will improve the process of removing carbon dioxide from the system that puts patients to sleep during operations. Memsorb is a membrane-based device that replaces the collection of chemicals that is now used to remove CO2 from

Flixel wins StartupFest Pitching Competition

A company with New Brunswick roots walked away from StartupFest on Friday with the $160,000 first prize at the Montreal festival’s pitching competition.

Toronto-based Flixel, which began life in Moncton, captured first place on Friday for the competition of three-minute pitches.

Flixel’s app lets users construct cinemagraphs -- still photos that

There can’t be many technology blogs that also offer reviews of summer shoes and proclaim a girl’s right to feel sexy, but Sage Franch is known for celebrating her love of tech and her femininity.

Franch, a.k.a. the Trendy Techie, is a computer programmer at Microsoft who volunteers her time to encourage other youth. Despite having only just graduated with her degree in computer science from