The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation launched its Breakthru competition last week, ramping up the total prize pot to $1 million and opening the competition to startups across the country.

The Innovation agency holds the Breakthru competition

Qimple Lands $500,000 from ACOA

Qimple, the Moncton startup that works to improve hiring for companies and applicants, has received a conditional loan of almost $500,000 from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Business Development Program.

As Halifax-based Bob Williamson prepares to host Invest Atlantic in New Brunswick for the first time, his years of mentoring entrepreneurs are being recognized by a national startup organization.

Williamson, who has won Startup Canada’s regional

DemoCamp Halifax, where nine startups will present their products without the aid of PowerPoint, will be held Thursday at the Potter Auditorium at Dalhousie University.

The idea for DemoCamp is to get founders that are still at the early stages to

Chinova Bioworks, a Fredericton company striving to develop new preservatives made from chitosan, has emerged from the IndieBio accelerator in Ireland with a relationship with a multi-national juice maker.

The young company, which was spun out of

The city of Fredericton set a record Tuesday evening when more than 250 people showed up for the Atlantic Canadian regional ceremony for the Startup Canada Awards.

It was the first time in the event’s three-year history that a regional awards

Scott Gallant and Jordan Patterson realized they were on to something with their new startup Forestry.io when details of the product leaked to a tech publication and 3,000 people suddenly signed up.

Things were already heading in the right

Toronto and California-based LINKETT has quadrupled its customer base in the last year. Appropriately enough for a marketing analytics company, LINKETT has grown by streamlining and deepening its use of paid social media advertising.

LINKETT helps

It’s been said that just about every startup is looking for developers, and this week in Jobs of the Week we’re highlighting companies from around the region in the hunt for tech talent.

Companies based in three of the four Atlantic Provinces and

Events in Fredericton this Week

The Startup Canada Awards on Tuesday evening are just one of a series of events taking place in Fredericton this week.

Startup Canada, the national organization dedicated to developing startups, will hand out their

St. John’s-based entrepreneur Chris Gardner is doing a lot to foster and grow his community. He, in turn, will need community support if his biotechnology company Sequence Bio is to succeed.

Gardner and co-founder epidemiologist Tyler Wish aim to

Ella, the Saint John-based app-developer that helps women sell their used clothing, has opened a retail outlet where women can get together to close more sales.

Founder and CEO Kelly Lawson announced Thursday that the company is opening a store