During the holiday season, it’s fitting to celebrate Porpoise – a Moncton startup that helps companies work with their employees to discover and promote how they are giving back together.

The startup has gone through a couple of pivots and

Halifax-based Appili Therapeutics Inc., whose ultimate goal is to produce a drug that treats superbugs, has closed a $2.15-million equity funding round to help fund clinical trials for its first product.

The company said in a press release the

I have spent a lifetime pursuing business growth in the region. It is often an elusive target in all sectors of our economy.

In researching economic development plans in other parts of the world, I was stuck by the sheer number of them and perhaps

A true pioneer of the computer era has developed a product in Fredericton that simplifies media production and is now preparing to use it to help manufacturers and companies demo their products.

Dhomas Trenn is the head of OneSimpler, a Fredericton

The winning company in the Growth Stage category at the Atlantic Venture forum last summer was 4Deep Inwater Imaging, a company that grew out of research conducted at Dalhousie University.

Around the same time, the No. 3 finisher at the Cisco

A study into how entrepreneurship affects mental health has revealed high rates of anxiety and depression, partly because of entrepreneurs’ tendency to invest too much of their own identities in the success of their companies.

The Mindset Project

As we into toward 2017, I think there is one thing the Atlantic Canadian startup community needs to focus on in the New Year to maintain the momentum that’s been building.

It should focus on bigness.

There are now big and growing

At Volta Labs we believe that Atlantic Canada has performed above the Canadian average when it comes to technology-driven companies finding success. However, the success of technology companies in the region has not yet inspired a broader sense that

St. Mary’s University is adding a new dimension to the student entrepreneurship craze by having a group of students oversee their own venture capital fund.

The university’s Sobey School of Business is in the process of launching Venture Grade,

As if running his own lab at Dalhousie University doesn’t keep him busy enough, Lukas Swan is now working on his second business.

Swan and Chris White, a former researcher at his laboratory, are in the early stages of Charged Engineering Inc.,

Dalhousie University is not renewing the contract of Ed Leach, the director of the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship and one of the architects of the Launch Dal initiative.

Sylvain Charlebois, the Dean of the Faculty of Management, sent an

The University of New Brunswick has launched Energia Ventures, a new accelerator designed to help develop companies in the energy, cleantech and cyber security fields.

The J. Herbert Smith Technology Management Entrepreneurship Centre launched the