In a sign of how active the startup community in Atlantic Canada has become, November will feature not one, not two, but three Startup Weekends. And these are just a few of the events taking place in the coming month.

Jason Janes, a co-founder

BIKE Scientific Inc., a Halifax-based medical device company, may be weeks away from the sale of its new ProTrap XG, a disposable cartridge that simplifies the process of isolating proteins in blood samples.

The company aims to solve the problem

Every Tuesday, about 10,000 people in Charlottetown eagerly await an email from a company less than a year old that offers them a chance to claim more than 1,000 gifts from local merchants.

The company in question is GetGifted, and its simple

The surge in submissions to Innovacorp’s I-3 competition has been quite remarkable, especially in rural areas.

The innovation agency announced this week that it received 228 submissions for the 2013-2014 startup contest – an increase of more

Atlantic Angels held their first meeting yesterday, featuring pitches from four companies and a request for feedback in shaping the young group.

Permjot Valia, an investor and the Founder of MentorCamp, hosted the meeting at the Volta startup

In an effort to reduce the stigma attached to failure, the Pond-Deshpande Centre at the University of New Brunswick has launched the region’s first Failure Fund.

The idea is that entrepreneurs who give an idea their best shot and come up short

My favourite sports writer, Don Banks of Sports Illustrated, likes to open his columns with the words: “Musings, observations and the occasional insight from” such and such. Well, here are my musings, observations and occasional insights from the

Having previously proposed developing pneumatic motors for lawn mowers, Braden Murphy is applying this technology to a range of products for the oil and gas industry.

Last year, Murphy was taking his Masters in Engineering at Dalhousie

A new association has formed in Nova Scotia to advance the interests of the burgeoning video game industry.

The Nova Scotia Game Developers Association formally announced its launch earlier this month, promising to promote and advance the

When Greg Phipps, an investment manager with Innovacorp, walked into the offices of the Beijing Development Authority last month, he was struck by the scale model of the Chinese Capital’s industrial park for tech companies, E-town.

The park is

The third annual MentorCamp Atlantic will take place at the Delta Halifax next week, linking up eight leading startups with a host of mentors from Atlantic Canada and around the world.

The event is the brainchild of British investor Permjot

When the Atlantic Angels hold their first meeting on Oct. 22, it will represent a huge opportunity to usher new blood into the investment community.

That much we know.

But as I spoke to a few entrepreneurs last week, it became apparent that