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

The Genesis Centre, the venerable startup house in St. John’s, will launch a new diversity program on Monday to offer support to more startups founded by women and immigrants.

Dyanna McCarthy, who has worked for the past four-and-a-half years with the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Technology Industries, will head up the three-year program. She will be charged not only with developing

Clients of SimplyCast would have noticed a big change in their SimplyCast360 application yesterday.

The Dartmouth-based company, which aims to simplify and automate communication flows for businesses ranging from startups to enterprises, revealed the worldwide update of its 360 Marketing Automation Manager with the new Automation Flow Editor.

The 360 communication application lets users map out

SkySquirrel Technologies, the Bedford, N.S. company that uses aerial imaging to improve vineyard productivity, has raised $3 million and merged with its Northern California research partner VineView Scientific Aerial Imaging.

The new company will be known as VineView and will change its business model so it uses high-altitude images taken from airplanes to map entire grape-growing districts.

When Premier Stephen McNeil toured the Volta Labs startup house in Halifax last month, one company that seemed to catch his eye was SeaSmart Technologies, a new oceantech company based in Mahone Bay.

SeaSmart is the sort of company that oceantech proponents had in mind when they conceived of the supercluster. At the outset, its technology will improve the efficiency of a traditional industry —

Halifax-based CarbonCure Technologies, whose technology reduces CO2 emissions in the making of concrete, plans installations in 16 facilities owned by Atlanta-based Thomas Concrete this year.

The Halifax cleantech company said in a statement Tuesday the installations will help Thomas further establish itself as the world’s largest supplier of concrete made with this CO2 recycling technology.

LaunchDal, Dalhousie University’s business accelerator program, is taking applications for its Collide Winter 2018 program, which is set to start on Jan. 25.

The program is open to anyone with a business idea and is free. 

Participants will attend four pitching sessions and present their business idea as it currently stands. After taking the idea through a series of workshops and fireside

Appili Therapeutics has struck an agreement to work on a vaccine that could protect people against a potential bioterror threat.

The Halifax drug discovery company said Monday it signed a licence agreement with the National Research Council of Canada to help develop ATI-1701, to vaccinate against tularemia. The vaccine will protect against bacteria called Francisella tularensis, which can cause