Invest Atlantic kicks off today in Charlottetown, and it will include my presentation on Entrevestor's startup data for 2017. 

EmerGence, the regional life sciences accelerator, will host a session at 10:30 a.m. that will feature a summary of

The Nova Scotia First Fund, the venture capital fund administered by Innovacorp, invested just over $7.9 million in the year ended March 31, 2018, compared with $8.6 million the previous year.

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia Crown corporation that

Volta Labs in Halifax has accepted eight new tech companies into its residency program. The companies, which range from an e-sports blockchain solution to a cash flow management software will have access to over $50,000 in business-development

We had some good news and bad news in our 2017 Atlantic Canadian Startup Data report:

1. We had a record year for failures in 2017;
2. Zombie companies accounted for almost one-fifth of the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

In case you were

Andrew Ray has been named the new Vice-President of Investment at Innovacorp, and he has a singular priority: to see the Nova Scotia venture capital agency make money for the provincial government.

The Crown corporation announced last week that

A sold-out crowd assembled Friday for Social Media Sydney, in which experts from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. gathered in the Cape Breton city to provide sage advice on using social media.

Organized by Nava Marketing, the event was designed to

Nature’s Way Canada, a company that produces a wide range of all-natural health products, has formed a partnership with Natural Products Canada, a non-profit that commercializes natural product companies  in Canada.

The two organizations announced

The silence has been broken after a few quiet weeks on our job board. Today, in our Jobs of the Week column, we're highlighting three postings from Dash Hudson, a visual media marketing company in Halifax. 

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing

It’s difficult to quantify the growth of a startup community year to year, but there is one figure from our 2017 Atlantic Canadian Startup Data report that demonstrates what’s happening in the space.

On Thursday, we're releasing the highlights of

Hanatech, an IoT solutions company nestled in Bedford, is getting ready to release a new integrated dashboard, called One Smart View, that lets its customers receive and manage their data.

IoT, or the Internet of Things, is a term that refers to

Jennifer Wagner, the Executive Vice-President of CarbonCure Technologies, has been selected as a Climate Trailblazer as part of the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

Wagner is the sole Trailblazer chosen from Canada, this year. 

Halifax-based Affinio on Wednesday announced that it has joined a major project initiated by tech giants Microsoft and Adobe to help retailers and consumer goods companies increase their sales.

Microsoft’s new Intelligent Customer Journey for