The Velocity Fund on Thursday presented a total of $125,000 in seed funding to seven companies whose products range from hardware that can diffuse landmines to an app that eradicates the need for passwords.

Held at the Student Life Centre at the

This week in Job of the Week, we are featuring a position with Fiddlehead Technology, which is seeking a principal software engineer on the Entrevestor Job Board.

Fiddlehead Technology is based in Moncton and focuses on using Big Data to better

ACOA Funds Venture for Canada Program

Top university graduates from across Nova Scotia in June will begin two-year paid fellowships at some of the province’s most promising emerging and early-stage startups. The Government of Canada on Friday

Ubique Networks Inc., a Sydney startup that reduces the lag in multiplayer online games, has landed venture capital funding from Toronto-based Extreme Venture Partners and Innovacorp of Halifax.

The funding announcement was one of two announced by

After a quarter-century of helping Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs3.0 is closing down.

The non-profit organization formerly known as Entrepreneurs’ Forum announced Thursday that its board has decided to cease operations due to

With his focus on entrepreneurship, new technologies and immigration, Akram Al-otumi is working hard to grow the population and economy of Nova Scotia, his adopted home.  

Halifax-based Al-otumi is a Co-Founder of 3D Next, which he set up in 2012

Eyeball Inc., the Bedford company that’s developed an online network for amateur sports, has launched a new web-based platform for league and tournament organizers.

The company said in a statement today it has formed a partnership with the 2016

Interviewing MediaSpark CEO Mathew Georghiou about his new Kickstarter campaign is a surprising experience. You start talking about the crowdfunding of his new board game and end up hearing about his growing portfolio of high-growth businesses.

Today we are launching our annual survey of Atlantic Canadian startups -- a key component in allowing us to provide you with news on the East Coast startup community. 

We're asking each Atlantic Canadian startup that was active in December 2015 to

Atlantic Venture Forum, an investor conference that showcases startups on the Canadian East Coast, is looking for founders to present at this year’s event June 22 and 23 at the Westin Nova Scotian in Halifax.

Applications to present at the event

There are two big things Patrick Kiely hopes his company Island Water Technologies will accomplish in 2016: one he is certain will happen, and the other he hopes will happen.

Montague, P.E.I.-based Island Water Technologies, which uses its unique

The new executive-in-residence at University of New Brunswick teaches his students more than how to develop, fund and sell a product.

David Wagner can also teach them the importance of luck and timing, and that sometimes they go against you.

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