Three Atlantic Canadian companies – LeadSift, RtTech Software, and SkySquirrel Technologies– have been named to the prestigious Canadian Innovation Exchange Top 20 for 2015.

The CIX website says the selected companies are “the hottest, most innovative Canadian technology companies selected by a selection committee of investors and professionals in the finance and technology industries.”

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One night in July, the dozen members of the first UIT program from Cape Breton University gathered at a restaurant in Sydney and held a mock graduation.

Even though the tech and entrepreneurship program does not grant degrees, they wore academic gowns. Family and mentors were there to congratulate them on completing the 10-month program. They were off to pursue entrepreneurial ventures.

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Karma Gaming, the Halifax startup that develops online games for regulated lotteries, has released FrontRow, the world’s first mobile fantasy sports product built for the lottery industry.

Fantasy sports — in which a fan builds a team from players across a league and sees how they perform each week — has become a huge business. The two top fantasy sites, DraftKings and FanDuel, are both

Michael Donovan, Executive Chairman of film and television company DHX Media Ltd., has won this year's Entrepreneur Of The Year Atlantic, presented by global consultancy EY at a ceremony in St. John’s on Thursday.

Donovan has been a pioneer in Canadian film and television for more than 30 years, founding Halifax-based Salter Street Films and winning an Academy Award for Bowling for Columbine.

Startup Canada on Wednesday will host a pair of events in Halifax, kicking off its cross-country Every Entrepreneur tour.

The Every Entrepreneur event begins tomorrow morning at 9 am at the McInnes Room at Dalhousie University’s Student Union Building. It will continue through the day, and the regional Startup Canada awards will be presented tomorrow evening.

The national tour, according to the Startup Canada website, is designed “to provide on-site inspiration, mentorship, training and new opportunities to thousands of Canadian entrepreneurs as they start and grow their companies.”

In the hope of making his sales targets a reality, young entrepreneur David Howe accepted a bet from his mentor, Dan Martell. Howe lost but furthered his career in ways he couldn’t have imagined.

Howe met Martell, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor he has long admired, early last year when Martell tweeted that he was in Halifax and looking for entrepreneurs to have lunch with.

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Dalhousie University’s Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship on Thursday launched the Collider, a space on the second floor of the Killam Library to promote entrepreneurship within the university and the entrepreneur community.

The Collider is branded as a “space for the serendipitous collision of ideas.” Though not officially called the Collider until Thursday, the room has been used

You could say Rock Laforge operates the dairy farm of the future, and that’s why he received the 2015 New Brunswick Bioscience Achievement Award from BioNB.

A fourth-generation farmer from Saint-Andre (50 kilometres southeast of Edmundston), Laforge heads Laforge Bioenvironmental, which powers his farm by burning the gas produced by waste products. The residue is then used as fertilizer. The

ProductCamp Atlantic, the one-day networking and mentoring session for product managers, will return for a second year on Saturday, Oct. 24.

ProductCamp is a loosely organized get-together in which product managers, marketing professionals and people interested in product management can meet up, find areas of common interest and mentor one another on best practices.

ProductCamp Atlantic

John Ruffolo is leading an active drive to start an association for growth-stage startups in Canada and expects the body will be up and running in a few months.

After floating the idea online recently, the CEO of OMERS Ventures has identified a core of about 12 companies committed to funding and organizing such an association. He hopes to attract about eight more backers to launch the group