FounderFuel, a Montreal-based accelerator for startups, will bring its roadshow to Halifax – an event that represents more than simply a chance for Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs to meet with the accelerator organizers.

The announcement also

One of the healthy trends we've seen in Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurship is the internationalization of companies' boards -- as I pointed out in an article in the most recent issue of Progress magazine.

Companies like Halifax Biomedical of

Charlottetown drug manufacturer BioVectra Inc. has agreed to sell out to Questcor Pharmaceuticals of Anaheim, Calif., for up to $100 million in cash and deferred payments, in a deal that will give the P.E.I. company the capital needed to pursue

Here’s the term that we’ll be hearing a lot in 2013: Series A.

And my bet is that by the time we welcome in 2014, it will be a term that has happy connotations for some companies and nasty connotations for others.

In the startup world, Series

A year ago, I listed 10 things in Atlantic Canada’s startup community that we should be keeping an eye on in 2012. These weren’t guaranteed to be big stories. But they could be big stories. Here’s what I was watching and my assessment of how they

Unique Solutions of Dartmouth is hiring an investment bank to advise it on striking a strategic relationship with a multinational that could greatly accelerate the development of its customer base and valuable databank.

Founder and CEO Tanya

Serial entrepreneur Baruch Pletner has launched a Halifax start-up to produce sensors that can notify mining companies when machinery operating in remote locations needs maintenance.

Intelligent Dynamics Canada Ltd. is very much in its infancy,

Sociallogical, the social media consultancy formed by former PropelICT executive director Jeff Roach, is developing a scalable product that will allow business to identify their needs in social media and act on them.

Roach joined PropelICT in

As an entrepreneur, Tim Burke eschews giving cigars or wine to his contacts when the holidays roll around.

Instead, he offers Kiva gift cards, which allow those in his network to support an entrepreneur in a less prosperous part of the world.

The Business Development Bank of Canada’s venture capital arm on Thursday committed to invest $10 million in a regional venture capital fund, bringing the federal government’s seal of approval to the initiative and raising the total funding to

After winning  his first business plan competition, Peter Goggin is hoping his social venture Green Trade, which trains ex-convicts and recovering addicts for employment, will take advantage of the skills shortage in the Maritimes to help people

Jeff Slipp is heading to Anaheim, Calif., next month with the hope  of finding a manufacturer that  will be able to  produce the enhanced-expression-effects pedals for electric guitars that Slipp is developing in Sydney.

Slipp, the founder and