Rob Barbara, a veteran investor and General Partner with Halifax-based venture capital firm Build Ventures, has been selected for Class 24 of the Kauffman Fellows, a two-year program that brings together innovative minds in venture capital.

Barbara is one of two Canadians selected for the new class of the Silicon Valley-based organization, which includes participants from 21 countries.

“Being

Three openings at Charlottetown-based Sprypoint headline our Jobs of the Week column today. The company is looking for a Business Development Specialist, iOS Developer, and Development Team Leader.

SpryPoint was founded in 2011 to assist utilities with addressing the technological advances of the last decade. It has developed a cloud-based platform of enterprise solutions designed to help

Charlottetown-based Startup Zone is launching a new early-stage accelerator program to help high-growth companies with product development, branding and sales.

The Prince Edward Island startup house is starting the accelerator so that entrepreneurs will have in-person mentoring and benefit from a sense of community. It is looking for entrepreneurs with a sense of urgency, who will strive to

The 10 companies enrolled in Dalhousie University’s LaunchPad accelerator pitched their businesses to an audience at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on Wednesday evening.

The pitching event marked the conclusion of LaunchPad, which is offered by Launch Dal, the group within Dal created to teach and support entrepreneurship. Each team in the cohort received $10,000 in funding for their business, as

Shortly after the birth of her fourth child, Tracey Gairns Brioux decided the best thing she could with her career would be to teach an online fitness class at 5:30 am each day.

She launched her company Reset Breathe Fitness, whose cornerstone is the 30-minute class she leads every morning at 5:30 Atlantic time from her home on Prince Edward Island.  Gairns Brioux uses Facebook Live to broadcast

On Thursday, Aug. 8, I will be in Sydney to deliver my talk on Media Relations for Startups.

I gave this talk at Volta a few weeks ago, and the response was really great.

So if you want to learn how to write a press release and identify which publications to target, come on out. We’ll discuss how to build relationships with journalists and publications to help promote your startup, and we’ll

Technology solutions company T4G is being recognized by Microsoft Canada for its innovative work with data.

The company, which has a headquarters in Saint John, has received the 2019 Microsoft Canada Data Innovation IMPACT Award. The annual Canadian awards recognize Microsoft partners that have focused on bettering the lives of Canadians and demonstrated excellence in sales, marketing,

Innovacorp is calling for applications for the third cohort of Start-Up Yard, its incubation program for ocean technology companies.

Successful entrants must pay $2,000 to enter the program, but they then receive a grant of $22,500 in development capital as well as a place to develop their businesses. They also receive office space in the Start-Up Yard facility in Dartmouth as well as

New Glasgow-based e-learning company Velsoft Training Materials has received a $150,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to facilitate its focus on international growth.

Velsoft’s product turns written training materials into interactive, industry-compliant eLearning. The company exports to more than 160 countries and includes many global brands among its clients. The company

Projects using DNA tools have been announced by Genome Atlantic, the non-profit corporation that helps Atlantic Canada reap the benefits of genomics technologies. 

In the first, L’Étang Ruisseau Bar Ltée, the oyster hatchery seed supplier located in Shippagan, NB, is teaming up with Université Laval scientists, Genome Atlantic and Génome Québec on a $3.8 million project to produce the first