Vish Salon Tech and Porpoise, two emerging Atlantic Canadian startups, presented at the FounderFuel Spring 2017 Demo Day in Montreal this week, which coincided with the city’s massive Startup Festival.

Pitching before a roomful of investors and tech enthusiasts, the two companies told of the traction they had gained since entering the Montreal accelerator earlier in the year. You can find video

Propel ICT, the regional IT accelerator, is now accepting applications for its 2017 Fall Accelerator and will hold information sessions across the region for people interested in applying.

The one-hour sessions are intended to tell prospective participants which program is best suited to accelerate their startup, and the outcomes they can expect to see throughout the accelerator.

The

Members of the Greater Moncton business community have launched a new initiative featuring an accelerator and funding vehicle to encourage the development of more social enterprises in the area.

Social enterprises are businesses created to further a social purpose, or solve a social problem, in a financially sustainable way.

Millennials comprise the biggest generation in the Canadian workforce

When Mo AlGermozi and Marciel Gaier manned their booth at the recent Atlantic Venture Forum, they handed all visitors a three-inch piece of black, plastic-like material and challenged them to break it.

It was graphene, a revolutionary new material that the two entrepreneurs are now producing in commercial quantities at their lab at Dalhousie University. They have discovered a new, economical way

The University of New Brunswick’s Master of Technology Management & Entrepreneurship program held its final pitching session Thursday night, allowing 10 teams comprising 13 students to present their companies to peers, mentors and local business leaders.

Every Thursday morning at the J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management & Entrepreneurship, students have presented their ventures to a

Our Jobs of the Week column this week features postings from Dash Hudson, which is seeking a Sales Development Intern, and BioNB, which has an opening for a Marketing and Communications Officer.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson has created a “visual intelligence platform” that helps its corporate clients to create and distribute photos and video, then analyze their impact. The system is an integrated

Island Water Technologies has completed the first installations of its Regen water-treatment facility, and those two projects are providing the company with the one thing it needs to win other contracts — data.

Based in Montague, P.E.I., IWT now has two products on the market, both of which offer efficient means of treating water away from urban locations. Regen can treat waste water for remote

Startup Zone, the hub for new businesses in downtown Charlottetown, has announced that three new companies have joined its business incubation residency program.

The latest companies to be accepted into the program are Shoplaw, Local Legends Apparel, and Cradle Technology Design Inc.

Shoplaw, founded by Randy Campbell, adds transparency and choice to the process of selecting a lawyer with an

When veteran tech entrepreneur Darren Gallop learned how hard it was to meet his partners’ demands for cybersecurity, it led to the creation of a new company that helps with such tasks.

Gallop is best known as the founder and CEO of Sydney-based Marcato Digital Solutions, which provides online administration systems for music festivals. As his company grew, Gallop learned Marcato had to meet the

Pittsburgh-based Evoqua Water Technologies has bought ADI Systems, Lange Containment and Geomembrane Technologies from ADI Group Inc. of Fredericton for an undisclosed price.

In a statement released Wednesday, Evoqua said the three businesses are world leaders in wastewater solutions for industrial and manufacturing applications, primarily based in Fredericton.

Founded in 1989, ADI has about