Karma Gaming, the Halifax startup out to marry regulated lotteries with video games, has signed a major contract to provide online games to Jumbo Interactive, a regulated lottery company in Australia.

Brisbane-based Jumbo said yesterday it had

Springleap, a South African design crowdsourcing startup, will attend MentorCamp Halifax on Sept. 24, guaranteeing that at least one international company will attend the one-day event.

Permjot Valia, the CEO of MentorCamp, wants to include

Today’s post is a link to my most recent column in Progress Magazine, and I’m going to add a word or two about the extraordinary month we have planned for Entrevestor.

The Progress story outlines the increasing investment by funds and

For me, very little says more about the accelerated evolution of Atlantic Canada’s innovation economy than the maturation of Invest Atlantic.

The only pan-regional conference for investors and entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada will be held at the

The 2012 BioInnovation Challenge at BioPort Atlantic will be a larger event than last year, featuring seven participants, of whom at least three, have raised money previously.

The BioInnovation Challenge was launched in 2011 as the competitive

Three years ago, businessman Gregg Curwin asked to meet me to discuss my book on the Nova Scotia economy, in part because he took exception to my statement that food production was too small a part of the province’s economy to have a significant

The value of the McKenzie Accelerator – which is now accepting applications to its second cohort – was driven home to me when I watched Guyverson Vernous present his company iCubemedia at the accelerator’s Demo Day in April.

Vernous is a native

Ocean Sonics – the young sister company of Instrument Concepts of Great Village, NS – is planning to launch a new product called icTalk in the autumn to complement its successful icListen smart hydrophone.

Begun by marine engineer Mark Wood in

Now that he’s able to drive past buildings made of his green concrete blocks, Robert Niven is gearing up for CarbonCure Technology’s second round of funding, which he hopes will raise $3 million to $5 million.

Niven, an environmental engineer

Greg Phipps, the man who once brought BDC Venture Capital to Radian6, has taken a leave of absence from Innovacorp to join Livelenz Inc. as its president.

Phipps said in an interview Friday he will be away from Innovacorp, where he serves as an

The federal government’s announcement Thursday of $1.2 million in loans for four Halifax-area tech companies highlighted the benefits of both debt and equity financing from public and private sectors for the region’s startups.

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BoomersWork, a Halifax company that matches retired executives with projects for businesses or organizations, is developing a pricing model for startups to allow young companies to benefit from the experience of seasoned corporate vets.

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