Halifax accountant James D. Nicoll is gathering support for a regional equity tax credit that doesn’t involve legislation from the four Atlantic Provinces.

Instead, he is asking the federal government to handle it.

“What we’re trying to do is

The hunt has officially begun for Innovacorp’s CEO.

The Nova Scotia innovation agency announced Friday that the provincial government has assigned Wilson Executive Search to find the successor to Clifford Gross, who left the position in February

As it seeks to raise $10 million in equity funding, Bedford, N.S.-based Livelenz Inc., has been selected to participate in two high-profile American programs and agreed to develop machine learning technology with Acadia University.

Livelenz,

One of the interesting aspects of Invest Atlantic and MentorCamp in September was the prominent role played by tech experts from Arkansas of all places.

There’s no obvious link between our home in the North Atlantic and the landlocked southern

GMS Surface Tech, which produces green and odour-free surface cleaners, has received commitments of about $600,000 in a $700,000 second round of funding that it hopes will fund expansion in the U.S.

The company, which was started by

We’d like to welcome Daniel Boltinsky, our new student intern, to the team at Entrevestor. Daniel is a student at University of King’s College in Halifax and his first piece for us is running today.

We’ve asked Daniel to report once every two

Having closed a seed round of funding, Halifax-based social media marketing company InNetwork Inc. is already talking to venture capital funds about a follow-on round, likely in the middle of 2013.

Innovacorp, the provincial innovation agency,

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation said Thursday it is teaming up with the New Brunswick government to provide $1 million to hire technical staff for research at the province’s universities and research institutions.

NBIF, an independent,

I’m pleased to announce that Entrevestor columns are now being published daily in the Chronicle-Herald, Atlantic Canada’s leading newspaper. Each business day starting  today, our columns will be included in the Insider email notice, the print

Sometime in the new year, at a cattle farm in Port Hood, Cape Breton, Chris van den Heuvel will launch a software product that could save thousands of dollars each for hundreds of thousands of North American farmers.

Van den Heuvel is a software

GoVenture World, the Sydney company developing a massively multi-player online game to train budding entrepreneurs on what it’s really like to start and grow a business, has been named to a list of the 50 brightest startups in the world.

The

If you think your startup idea is too early-stage for the Breakthru competition, Calvin Milbury would respectfully like to set you straight.

Breakthru, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s biennial business plan competition, is essentially