While Nicole LeBlanc’s main job is finance director at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, the accountant does not limit herself to counting beans.

LeBlanc’s other duties range from providing financial and business advice to the region’s

For the past few years, Andre Pellerin and Andre LeBlanc have watched their friends in the restaurant industry get squeezed by rising food costs. This year, they started a business to help out restaurant owners.

The two Moncton food services

Nautel Ltd., the Hackett’s Cove, N.S., maker of radio and television transmitters, agreed Wednesday to buy the business and assets of Marport C-tech Ltd., a Cornwall, Ont.-based maker of engineered sonar solutions.

The buyer said in a statement

In this time of rising social concerns, social entrepreneurs – those who want to found a business that meets a social, economic or environmental need and turns a profit – are growing in number. To help them, New Brunswick’s Pond-Deshpande Centre

To put it mildly, Atlantic Canada has never been known as a hotbed of men’s fashion. But that’s not stopping Thomas Rankin and Tomek Niewiarowski from developing a tech company that will help men to effortlessly improve their wardrobe.

The two

As the startups formed in the past few years begin to mature, it’s reassuring to know there are still events, competitions and other institutions that are bringing new companies into existence.

The Launch36 DemoDay in Saint John last week

It seemed counterintuitive to start his own Internet venture when the dotcom business he’d been working for collapsed in the crash of 2000, but Mark Kennedy has always followed his passions.

The St. John’s entrepreneur had already co-founded a

Tyler Wish and Chris Gardner, two members of the bustling St. John’s startup community, are teaming up to form Sequence Bioinformatics, a new company dedicated to analyzing genetic data for the prevention of diseases.

The pair of entrepreneurs

Launch36, the regional tech accelerator, plans to branch out to Newfoundland and Labrador in 2014 as part of its goal to build at least one billion-dollar ICT company in Atlantic Canada.

The accelerator operated by PropelICT graduated its third

Launch36, the Atlantic Canadian technology accelerator, will graduate its next six companies tonight at an extravaganza in Saint John, N.B., bringing the companies that have gone through the two-year-old program to 26.

Propel ICT, the New

It was the quintessential investor-entrepreneur lunch, the pitch resoundingly perfect, the potential riches laid bare.

It ended with a commitment and a hand-shake. The investors would take the lead in assembling a syndicated round for our Big

Innovacorp on Friday released the names of the 25 entrants in the I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition that have been invited to compete in Round 2.

A few of them have been covered previously in Entrevestor, and we’ve linked to those stories.