A dozen companies from across the Maritimes will gather in Saint John on Saturday to vie for a coveted spot in the second cohort of the Launch36 Accelerator, organized by PropelICT.

Speaking during a break at the National Angel Capital

IPSNP Computing Inc., a Saint John-based startup developing advanced software for searching online databanks, has received $200,000 in funding to advance its lead product, HYDRA.

The company said in a press release that it has secured $150,000

News reports say Salesforce.com is laying off employees at Radian6, which it aquired for about last year. With other commitments, we haven't had time to look into the story so here are a few links to reports from other profiders.

TechCrunch:

When I ran into Patrick Keefe, the new head of the regional venture capital fund, during Atlantic Innovation Week, the one thing he wanted to talk about was the book he’d just finished, Startup Communities by Brad Feld.

Feld is a serial

ABK Biomedical of Halifax aims to have its treatment for uterine fibroids ready to roll out in Canada within 18 months with the help of a $1.25 million fundraising round announced yesterday.

The company, which was developed by researchers at

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Cox & Palmer yesterday launched the province’s fourth Breakthru competition, which tests entrants’ ability to write business plans and awards winners a total of $250,000 in cash and professional

As it achieves a preliminary close on its first round of funding, LeadSift has signed a deal to market its lead-generation product through Salesforce.com – a deal that came together because of an article on Entrevestor.com in May.

Halifax-based

Alpha Dog Games’ website describes better than I can what it will unleash on the world in a couple of weeks: a “visceral WHACK ‘N’ SMASH action-adventure game in a dark fantasy world.”

Yikes.

Alpha Dogs is a mobile gaming company based in

Springboard Atlantic, the organization that supports the commercialization of research at the region's post-secondary institutions, will host a technology showcase in Halifax on Wednesday in association with the National Angel Summit, which opens

Breviro Caviar Inc, which is commercializing a rare caviar taken from the shortnose sturgeon, has secured a $500,000 venture capital investment from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, bringing its total equity raise to $2.5 million.

Matt Eldridge and Adam MacDonald have decided to follow that age-old advice about working on your greatest passion, and they’ve figured out a way to combine their proficiency in software with their love of golf.

These two veterans of the Moncton

The Regional VC Fund, which launched last week, was created largely to solve the lack of capital in Atlantic Canada.

It was an age-old complaint from entrepreneurs in the region: there simply wasn’t enough capital in these parts to nurture