The Business Development Bank of Canada is seeing growing optimism among Canada’s small- and medium-sized businesses, with particular strength in the national technology sector and across Atlantic Canada.

The BDC, the business-focused financial

The University of New Brunswick on Monday opened the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, a hub for research, training and industry collaboration that has been backed by more than $4.5 million in funding .

The institute, which has signed on IBM as

Startup Canada Halifax will hold a seminar titled “What Startups Need To Know about Financial Information” at 4 pm on Jan. 24 at Volta Labs in Halifax.

The event is free and you can register here.

John Hamblin, the head of Startup Canada Halifax,

In our Job of the Week column today, we’re highlighting an opening for  Chief Technology Officer at Sentinel Alert of St. John’s. The successful candidate could choose to work in St. John’s or Halifax.

Sentinel produces software that can detect

With its life sciences segment pretty well doubling in size every four years, Prince Edward Island is on a mission to develop new infrastructure that can sustain that growth.

The PEI BioAlliance, a partnership between the various players in the

The Genesis Centre in Newfoundland and Labrador turns 20 this year, a milestone that’s being celebrated with events that include MaRS on the Rock, a new partnership between the Genesis Centre and Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District.

MOTR, which

Bolstered by signing major new clients, Halifax-based Dash Hudson has quietly closed a new funding round of more than $2 million to further accelerate its growth.

Dash Hudson, which provides data analytics for corporate clients using Instagram,

Once again, we are launching our annual survey of Atlantic Canadian startups.

We can’t overstate the importance of this survey to our business. This survey helps to demonstrate to decision-makers the importance of the startup community in the

Two of the leading university entrepreneurship programs in the region – the Summer Institute at University of New Brunswick and Dalhousie University’s Collide program – are looking for participants.

Dalhousie’s Collide Winter 2017 program is a

Build Ventures, the regional venture capital fund, is beginning to prepare for its second fund now that it has just over a year to complete the portfolio of its first fund.

The Halifax-based firm launched in 2013 with a $65-million fund, raised

Peter Goggin, the Co-Founder and Vice-President of Operations at Resson, will speak Wednesday at the Cybersocial in Moncton.

The free event will take place at the Venn Centre on Main Street, starting at 5 pm.  

Goggin and his co-founder Rishin

Startup Grind Halifax has announced that its next event will focus on bootstrapping and will feature Eric Bahn, who spent just $32,000 on a site that he sold for millions.

Led by entrepreneur Oleg Yefymov, Startup Grind brings in speakers for the