Kathryn Lockhart has a vision for Atlantic Canada: A farm of baby unicorns.

Lockhart is almost through her second month as Chief Executive of the regional tech accelerator Propel, and she’s good with its long-term goal of producing an Atlantic Canadian tech unicorn. (A unicorn is a company with a $1billion valuation.)

But in the medium-term, she’d like the region to aim to produce several

Halifax-based Fundmetric, which helps non-profits raise more money from philanthropists, has signed up Texas Tech University, one of its largest clients to date.

Fundmetric started seven years ago with a goal of helping charities enhance their engagement with donors. U.S. colleges and universities have become its main market, and the multi-year contract with Texas Tech adds to its list of major

MESH/Diversity, which helps clients use data to support diversity initiatives, has closed a $750,000 equity funding round led by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Concrete Ventures.

The Saint John-based company said in a statement that East Valley Ventures, an investment group also headquartered in Saint John, also invested in this round. East Valley and NBIF had invested in the

Sixteen Atlantic Canadian companies will present at the Atlantic Venture Forum next week – a virtual event due to the pandemic.

Calgary-based Critical Path Group, which stages the forum for startups and investors, had considered waiting until next spring to hold its next in-person event. But given the uncertainty about how long the pandemic will last, the company has decided to proceed with a

After increasing its Atlantic Canadian staff 30-fold in the past six years, Cvent is hiring again, hoping to add 20 to 30 people in the region.

The maker of software for the event and hospitality industries has been a growth story in the region since it bought Fredericton-based OneLobby in 2014. It was seen at the time as a fire sale of a troubled company, but it ended up being one of the more

I was astonished – and, to be frank, a little embarrassed – by how much I learned reading Gordon Pitts’ superb new book, Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers Are Changing the Game.

Any regular reader of Entrevestor should be familiar with the story of Q1 Labs and Radian6, the two New Brunswick companies that sold out for a combined price of about $1 billion in 2012-13. Taken

Simonne Cormier, Founder of a company that will make breast prostheses from natural fibres, is celebrating making it into Emergence, the national Bioscience Business Incubator run by PEI BIoAlliance.

It’s a big step for the Montague-based breast cancer survivor and former government administrator who has recently formed her venture Au Naturel Solutions and is beginning trials of her device

Ignite Labs has been recognized with a national Canie Award just days after the organization opened a new facility in Pictou County, N.S.

Yarmouth, N.S-based Ignite, headed by Founder and CEO Doug Jones, is dedicated to providing incubation space and support for rural innovators. It began in Yarmouth three years ago, and opened an outpost in northern Nova Scotia last year. Late last week, it

Volta has teamed up with Scale AI, the Montreal-based artificial intelligence supercluster, to offer a new program called Volta AI, which supports companies bringing AI to supply chains.

Volta, the Halifax-based innovation hub, said five Canadian companies will be accepted into the one-year program and each will receive $14,000 to buy services or materials.

Applications will be accepted until

As many of our readers know, I have a side hustle writing crime novels. A few of you have asked how or where to order the new editions of my books THE HAIGHT or A HITMAN ON HAIGHT STREET, which come out in paperback and digital formats on Nov. 10.

I’m arranging to hand deliver signed paperback copies to friends in Nova Scotia. If you’d like either or both, let me know the title and number, and I