Propel ICT, Atlantic Canada’s startup accelerator, has announced a 25 percent increase in the number of entrepreneurial teams applying for its startup programs. 

A total of 162 companies have applied to take part in Propel ICT’s Build and Launch programs in the first half of 2016. 

The growing demand means that Propel ICT will now offer its programming for selected companies twice a year. 

Charlottetown-based icejam, whose technology incorporates real-world, real-time data in free-to-play games, has secured $3 million in equity financing from the Halifax-based venture capital fund Build Ventures.

The investment brings the total raised by icejam to $3.5 million and will help the company launch the first game on its proprietary platform later this year.

The company is a pioneer in

Having landed $525,000 in fresh funding, St. John’s startup Sentinel Alert is gearing up to push its worker safety software into the market across Canada.

The company was one of three Newfoundland and Labrador companies on Tuesday to announce funding from the Venture Newfoundland and Labrador fund and Killick Capital. As well as those two institutional investors, Sentinel also attracted

Three St. John’s tech companies on Tuesday announced total funding of more than $2 million, including financing from the young Venture Newfoundland and Labrador fund and Killick Capital.

Educational game developer Clockwork Fox Studios, marketing collaboration platform HeyOrca!, and worker-safety software provider Sentinel Alert and received funding from a range of investors.

For several years,

Two Halifax medtech companies, ABK Biomedical and Densitas, will travel to San Francisco next month to take part in the Dose of the Valley – a mentoring and networking event for Canadian life sciences companies.

The Bay Area is renowned as the global hotbed for information technology startups, and for years Canadian IT companies have been attending 48 Hours in the Valley – an event that helps

As many of our readers know, the union representing reporters, editors and photographers at the Chronicle-Herald in Halifax is now on strike. We want our readers to know our position during the strike as Entrevestor has contributed three articles a week to the Chronicle-Herald for more than three years.

Entrevestor will continue to place three articles a week in the paper, declining requests from the respective parties in the dispute to increase or cut off our contribution during the disruption.

We’ve taken this position because our company has a long-standing agreement with a client, and

After three years, Conceptualiz brought its vision to life: a mobile application for the iPad that can design orthopedic implants personalized to the patient. The current app is exclusively available for research and educational purposes.

The Halifax- and Toronto-based company’s OSSA 3D surgical planning and implant design platform allows orthopedic surgeons to design personalized implants. The

This week in Jobs of the Week, we’re featuring positions in Halifax, including a new posting by Norex and its Pursu.it division.

Pursu.it helps elite athletes find financial support through crowdfunding. The organization is developing a new crowdfunding platform that can also be used by other social organizations. It needs a Ruby engineer to work on the platform.

We also feature postings this

Innovacorp on Thursday awarded $850,000 to 15 Nova Scotian companies as the Nova Scotia innovation agency named the regional and sectoral winners of its I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition.

I-3 is the biennial competition for early stage companies in the province. On Thursday, Innovacorp named the winners of five regions in the province, each of whom will win $100,000. It also named the

Big data and environmental sustainability have become hot topics in recent years. New Brunswick’s Remsoft has been analyzing big data for decades, a foresight that has made the company a world leader in land and forestry management.

The large volume of data relevant to a particular business or sector can be analyzed for insights that lead to better business decisions and higher profits.

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