Ryan Keliher walked into Pitch101 in Charlottetown with an idea for a social entrepreneurship venture and walked out with a $500 first prize and an invitation to Invest Atlantic in Halifax in September.

Keliher’s pitch Friday for United World

After a variety of business pursuits, Sarbjyot Bains believes he may have finally found the entrepreneurial venture that can change the world — an educational platform for the world’s most inexpensive tablets.

Born and raised in Gujarat in

Having retired from a career in engineering, Bob Haagensen has devoted the last few years to making GPS surveys more accurate at sea.

Haagensen is the founder of Ocean Wireless Data Systems, or O-Wireless, which has developed technology that

Peter Diamandis has got past linear thinking to grasp the potential of a world in which knowledge is expanding exponentially. And in his brilliant book Abundance he shares his vision of what this brave new world could look like.

The book is

Jean-Philippe Olivier is setting out to start a company that will protect the Maritimes’ glorious beaches from harmful jellyfish and make money doing it.

Olivier is a former restaurateur from northern France who came to New Brunswick about eight

When T4G and the New Brunswick Information Technology Council staged the Big Data Congress in Saint John on Jan. 24, they wanted to roll out a few of the region’s start-ups dealing in data analytics. They didn’t have to look far. They assembled

Tim Burke is a pretty amazing entrepreneur. The Co-Founder of Quark Engineering in Halifax calls himself a parallel entrepreneur, a businessman able develop several enterprises simultaneously, and he has other irons in the fire. With his partner

Picomole Instruments Inc. of Moncton expects to close $1.2 million in equity funding this quarter with the intent of performing clinical studies on a breath-analysis device it believes will revolutionize diagnostics.

In an interview in his

The success of the Big Data Congress in Saint John on Thursday was driven home to me not just be the crowds but by James Stewart shouldering his way through the packed foyer and saying in passing just three words.

“We got approval,” he said

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Coady Cameron’s thesis for his master’s of civil engineering degree could end up saving municipalities a lot of money.

Coady and his brother, Drew, are the co-founders of TotalPave, a Fredericton startup that aims to revolutionize the way cities

Bedford, N.S.-based Nova Georgia Properties Ltd. has closed a $640,000 property acquisition in Georgia – another step in its drive to build up a portfolio of residential real estate in the southeastern U.S.

CEO Jamie Nicoll said in an interview

Dalhousie professors Mary Kilfoil and Ed Leach will launch their next lean startup initiative Jan. 30 when they host a meeting for Startup Next.

Kilfoil and Leach last fall shepherded nine teams during their Starting Lean course, which didn’t