One of the true champions of the startup community was recognized in Fredericton last night when Nicole LeBlanc, CFO of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, received the Special Recognition award at the Knowledge Industry Recognition and

Cisco on Thursday unveiled the Cisco Chair in Big Data at the University of New Brunswick. The following is a blog from Mike Anstey, Vice President, Sales for Business Markets at Cisco Canada, announcing the new post:

A few years ago we

Verafin, the St. John’s company that develops software for battling money laundering and fraud, has attracted a $60 million buy-in from American private equity firm Spectrum Equity, which will finance the company’s next phase of growth.

Spectrum

If you can drive a golf ball 10 miles by Canada Day, Foursum and Puma have a hat — and a mobile phone app — for you.

Foursum is a Moncton startup that has developed an app for golfers. On Tuesday, it launched its partnership with Puma, the

When McRock Capital hosts its annual Industrial Internet of Things symposium in Montreal in June, three of the presenting startups will be from Atlantic Canada.

As of March, the Toronto-based venture capital group had selected 10 startups to

Last night, we gathered in Fredericton with almost 50 members of the startup community for the first Entrevestor dinner – an event that marks a beginning on many levels.

Most important, it was the beginning of two discussions that Entrevestor

Bluedrop Performance Learning, the St. John’s-based training software company, has been ramping up revenues at its new learning networks division, while reducing administrative costs following a major acquisition last year.

Now CEO Emad Rizkalla

When former Olympian Julia Rivard, the CEO of Halifax web design company Norex, wanted to help elite athletes raise money, she and her business partner Leah Skerry developed and launched Pursu.it, a crowdfunding site for athletes.

That was the

Scott Stirrett doesn’t think every bright new graduate should join the professions. He believes many people would better serve themselves and society by becoming entrepreneurs. And he’s acting on his beliefs. The 22-year-old Dartmouth native has

The Newfoundland and Labrador tech sector hopes to develop a startup organization in Corner Brook this year, and to have its first organization in Labrador early next year.

The plans for Startup Corner Brook, Startup Labrador and other

Raphael Paulin-Daigle plans to accomplish two things next month — help Moncton attain the world’s highest acceptance rate of Bitcoin and graduate from high school.

The 17-year-old entrepreneurial wunderkind is organizing CoinCity 2014 on June 6,

Clarity, the Moncton startup that connects experts with people who need their advice, yesterday launched a new video product called Clarity Live, which lets users attend video-based seminars with some of the world’s leading experts.

Clarity