The First Angel Network, or FAN, goes where other investors fear to tread. Since 2005, it has directed more than $9 million to business startups in Atlantic Canada.

As co-founders of Atlantic-based FAN, we are proud of the performance of the

After 25 years in venture capital, I first heard the term “investment ask” five years ago, when working in Nova Scotia.

I didn’t like it at all! And I really don’t like the practice of asking entrepreneurs to pay to pitch.

One important thing

The staff of Ooka Island Inc. gathered at their Charlottetown office a few weeks ago to watch the educational software company’s pitch on CBC’s Dragons’ Den.

One staff member’s smartphone was logged on to the company’s e-commerce site, which

OneLobby on Thursday will launch – or maybe christen is a better verb – the first version of its event management software, which it has adoringly named Alana.

The Fredericton startup, which last year moved its headquarters from Halifax,

Maria French jokingly says she still has the “startup bruises” from the early years of trying to gain traction with her medical transcription business, Terra Nova Transcription of St. John’s.

In 2000, French got the idea of providing a service

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has named the five finalists for its biennial Breakthru competition, in which early stage companies will vie for $406,000 in prizes.

The finalists -- Black Magic, CeteX, Store-it Squirrel, TotalPave and

Almost two years after landing a seven-figure venture capital funding, Lymbix Inc. of Moncton is gaining revenue with a different product than the one that attracted investors.

Lymbix drew the attention of the regional startup world in April

The group producing some of the largest tech-venture conferences in Canada is coming to the Atlantic Provinces.

Spurred by the growing national interest in the region’s start-ups, the Critical Path Group announced late last week that it will

Ed Leach talks about the upcoming Canada’s Business Model Competition by comparing it to the situation that used to exist in Canadian college basketball – the championships were in Halifax every year.

Dalhousie University – at which Leach

As I ended a conversation Tuesday with an entrepreneur who was once funded by the First Angel Network, he said, “The worst thing that could come out of this would be for FAN to shut down.”

This is the controversy that erupted Tuesday when David

The fact that RtTech Software CEO Pablo Asiron has travelled this year to Kazakhstan, Australia and the Philippines to meet clients and sales prospects shows how successful the New Brunswick company has been in international markets.

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Charlottetown-based drug-discovery company Neurodyn Inc. tapped an unlikely source of capital when it announced its $1.5-million to $2-million funding round last week. It raised money from something called a “home office.” It also revealed a new