Like many journalists, I pay more attention to fundraising by startups than I should, but it’s hard not to sit up and take notice when we had a week like last week.

Four Atlantic Canadian startups announced that they raised a total of $10

It seemed appropriate that Equals6, the Halifax-based social network for students, should win a startup award in Boston on the same day that entrepreneurs gathered in downtown Halifax to unveil a national networking scheme for young enterprises.

Halifax-based LeadSift, whose software finds sales leads for corporate customers, has attracted $500,000 in investment from OMERS Ventures and an additional $135,000 from a group of individuals, closing its first round of funding at $1.135

Novawise Inc., a Halifax startup developing customer relationship management software for pharmaceuticals and other regulated industries, has received investment from two pillars of the Saint John tech community with strong links to investor Gerry

Sackville, N.S.-based Boondoc has hired Can Stock Photo founder Duncan Enman as its chief technology officer, as the social network for physicians rounds out its team and prepares to launch a prototype early in January.

CEO Blair Ryan and COO

Saint John-based Enovex hopes to form a partnership with a larger industrial gas company by late March 2013 to help commercialize its flagship compound that aids the production of oxygen for medical and industrial markets.

The company, whose

The latest edition of Progress Magazine is on the stands and it includes my first-person account of going through THENEXTPHASE, the superb entrepreneurship course offered by Toon Nagtegaal and Shawn Carver.

Just a word of background: this was a

Halifax consumer health products maker Origin BioMed is receiving a $350,000 investment from Nova Scotia Business Inc. which it plans to use to continue its recovery from a cash crisis earlier this year.

In an interview, Executive Chairman Carlo

UserEvents, a startup whose technology alerts corporations when customers are having trouble with online transactions, has attracted a $250,000 venture capital investment from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

Fredericton-based UserEvents

After a year of selling their flagship product independently, the founders of CacheCase, which makes a combined phone case and wallet, are plotting a strategy to expand into the wider retail market.

Co-Founders Cam McDonald and Matt Biaros and

Karma Gaming, the Halifax startup that is developing video games for regulated lotteries, has landed just under $500,000 in additional seed financing from a group of Atlantic Canadian angels, complemented by a $250,000 loan from the Atlantic

AioTV, a startup in which Innovacorp invested $1 million a year ago, has raised $8 million by selling a 44 percent stake to UTStarcom Holdings Corp., a publicly listed maker of broadband equipment and solutions for cable and telecom operators.