Startups are becoming a force in the Atlantic Canadian economy, creating about 3,000 direct jobs and increasing employment by about 40 per cent annually.

Those are the main findings of a survey of Atlantic Canadian startups — defined as locally

As part of the Entrevestor Intelligence report launched today, we were truly fortunate to work with Bonfire Communications of Saint John on this tremendous infographic.

Artist Lise Hansen was given the task of converting data on the Atlantic

I’d like to thank all of you who tweeted or emailed you congratulations on being recognized by Startup Canada on Wednesday. And I’d like to send out my congratulations to the other winners – just to be named with these people is great honour.

We’re less than a week away from the start of Innovation Week in St. John’s, and I’m really excited to be joining and participating in the events in Newfoundland and Labrador. I’m even hosting one.

StartupNL, which is organizing the city’s first

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation issued the following press release yesterday:

 FREDERICTON, N.B.—The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) today announced $900,000 in funding to support 34 undergraduate and 73 graduate student

Halifax medical device company ABK Biomedical is raising about $1 million in equity financing to help get its product on the European market in about a year. While it’s secured about half the total from the First Angel Network, or FAN, it’s also

On May 12, you can help to shape the direction of one of the most important components of the East Coast startup ecosystem – Mentorship.

That evening, at the Kingswood golf club in Fredericton, Entrevestor will host a dinner at which we will

Cellufuel, the company developing a biomass facility at the site of the former Bowater Mersey paper mill, is working hard to finalize a $5 million funding round, half of which is equity investment from private sources.

The Halifax-based company

You have a few days left to get your company’s contact details into the Atlantic Canada Startup Directory, and we’re looking for more submissions.

More than 100 startups have submitted their names, which is a good start. But we’re looking for

In 2006, Bob Pelley developed and piloted Innovacorp’s I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition, which began in Cape Breton and spread provincewide, fostering some of Nova Scotia’s most promising startups. Now, Pelley has got behind Spark Cape Breton

Haligonians are invited to view a free documentary called Not Business As Usual that stresses the need for entrepreneurs to be agents for social good and redefine business. Organizers of the screening say the documentary recently played to a

The prospects are excellent that equity-based crowdfunding will soon be allowed in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, but first securities regulators are looking for feedback on new rules for the online fundraising.

The Nova Scotia Securities