Concert venue marketplace Side Door has inked a deal with South by Southwest under which the Halifax company will organize short concert tours for bands participating in the Texas-based music festival.

Side Door matches musical artists with hosts who have space for them to perform and takes 10 percent of the venues’ gross profits as payment. The venues can be peoples’ homes or other intimate

We’re absolutely thrilled with the response we’ve received to our survey campaign this year, and that we’ve already passed one-quarter of our target for help with Australian wildfire relief.

Last week, we launched our annual survey, which helps us compile data on the Atlantic Canadian startup community. And we added a new feature this year: for every survey response we accept by Feb. 3, we will

 

More than 400 people gathered in the old Scotiabank building on King Square in Saint John on Thursday for the official opening of the MBA program that has been relocated uptown from the University of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus in Tucker Park.

MP Wayne Long, on hand to announce that the Atlantic Canadian Opportunities Agency contributed $750,000 to help facilitate the move, said it’s

Innovacorp has awarded a total of $125,000 to five winners of its latest Sprint Competition, which provides development capital to early-stage startups in Nova Scotia.

The Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency on Thursday announced the five winners of the 2020 competition, which received 41 applications from across the province. Ten companies were shortlisted to pitch to

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has invested $500,000 in Concrete Ventures, the Halifax-based venture capital firm that began investing in early-stage Atlantic Canadian companies last year.

Fredericton-based NBIF said in a statement that it had made the investment in the fund, which is headed by serial entrepreneur and investor Patrick Hankinson, who sold his company Compilr for more

With one eye on the cell phone before him, Lord Flight launched into a promotion of a subject dear to his heart – investment tax credits as a means of encouraging entrepreneurship.

I had come to his home in Westminster to interview him, and he apologized for the distraction. There was a vote in the House of Lords on the Brexit bill, and the Lord was waiting for a summoning message to pop up on

St. John’s-based InspectAR Augmented Interfaces Inc., whose technology helps to simplify the production of printed circuit boards, has received an $850,000 investment from two American companies.

The young company, which grew out of the engineering program at Memorial University of Newfoundland, issued a statement saying the company hopes to double its staff this year as it accelerates

Fredericton-based Remsoft, which uses data analytics to aid forestry companies, has promoted two executives to director positions to upgrade its data and analytics services and its sales team.

The company announced this week that Marie Eve Fillion has been promoted to director of analytics solutions, while Mike Hutchinson has been named director of technical sales.

Remsoft has developed

Now that we’re well into January, there are programs and funding initiatives for entry-level entrepreneurs opening up around the region.

There is an endless parade of budding entrepreneurs who need to test their ideas in early-stage programs and try to assess whether their ideas could produce a marketable product. Others need help with prototyping or protecting intellectual property.

Here are a

Halifax-based Kula Partners, a marketing agency serving business-to-business manufacturers across North America, has become the first manufacturing-focused agency to partner with Terminus, the world’s leading account-based marketing, or ABM, platform.

Led by co-founders Jeff W. White and Carman Pirie, Kula Partners helps B2B manufacturers to craft digital experiences that transform how they