If your app caters to the fashion industry, it can only help if one of the world’s most famous models invests in your company and features your product on her TV show.

Philippe LeBlanc certainly found that out last Thursday when the U.S. reality

Two leading Canadian authorities on startups and seed funding will hold an educational session on pitching in Halifax next month as part of a nationwide campaign to improve startups’ presentations.

Ian Jeffrey from FounderFuel and John Stokes

The Sobey School of Business at St. Mary’s University wants to measure and assess all the components of the Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem, and is looking for a range of people to help out.

Professor Ellen Farrell, well known for her work

Canadian Entrepreneurs in New England, a network of Canuck expats in the Boston area, announced Tuesday it is accepting applications of its inaugural 48 Hours in the Hub event, to be held Sept. 29-Oct. 1.

Modeled on 48 Hours in the Valley hosted

I don’t often post videos on Entrevestor, feeling that area is best left to my friends at Startup Kitchen. But Sally Ng has released this really cool video of the new ACcelr8 accelerator in Fredericton.  It looks amazing.

Ng, the Executive

After a long and hectic summer, a group of entrepreneurs from Dalhousie University will unveil their financial app Purchext to angel investors in Toronto today as the final segment of the grueling Next 36 course.

Purchext is a company formed at

Fredericton-based businesses – including the startups in the two incubators that will open this autumn -- will soon be offered a massive saving on their internet fees, which the city hopes will further develop its burgeoning startup community.

Sheepdog Inc., the Halifax company specializing in cloud-based software development, will focus on organic growth in its Sheepdog Labs division now that it has laid off most of its 13-member sales and marketing division, CEO Brandon Kolybaba said

A day after its Atlantic Innovation Fund financing officially expired, Vitrak Systems Inc. of Charlottetown closed its first sale.

The company in 2011 won a two-year, $1.4-million loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunity Agency’s innovation

In the midst of those hazy, lazy days of summer, startup incubators and accelerators around Atlantic Canada are hard at work preparing for a bevy of activity in the autumn.

These “startup organizers”, if you will, all like to be called something

The Halifax startup community is staging an event next month that could theoretically lead to improved services and greater efficiency in Halifax Regional Municipality.

Volta, the co-working space for startups in downtown Halifax, is hosting a

After a gas leak was reported in Halfax’s south end in July, Gordon McArthur and Nick Nickerson drove around the area taking readings of natural gas with an ultra-sensitive analyzer to make sure all leaks had been plugged.

Within a few hours,