John McLaughlin, Professor Emeritus and President Emeritus of the University of New Brunswick, has been awarded Startup Canada’s 2016 Adam Chowaniec Lifetime Achievement Award for the Atlantic Region.

The national organization dedicated to

Palmer to Head Propel ICT’s Growth Program

Propel ICT, the Atlantic Canadian regional accelerator, has named Steve Palmer as the head of its new Growth Program.

The Growth Program, which the organization announced earlier in the year, is designed

The need for Atlantic Canadian businesses to increase sales, particularly global sales, is a hot subject. With that in mind, technical industry association Digital Nova Scotia is piloting a sales development program in Halifax for small to

EyeRead Changes Name to Squiggle Park

EyeRead, the Halifax startup dedicated to helping children learn to read, has changed its name to Squiggle Park.

A spinout from the Halifax web development company Norex, Squiggle Park uses the camera facing

Well, we're not really fishing, but there was a time when that sign used to hang in office windows if people were away. We will be taking our annual summer break next week. We're having a bit of down time and recharging our batteries before a busy

Waterloo’s Accelerator Centre, or AC, is accepting applications for the first cohort of its newly developed Phase One program launching in September.

Phase One is an intensive four-month program focusing on market validation and investment

Trevor MacAusland is returning to Propel ICT.

The regional accelerator said Wednesday that MacAusland, who had overseen the organization’s first program, Launch36, has accepted a position as Entrepreneur-in-Residence in Moncton.

“Propel ICT

Newfoundland and Labrador may get a chance Thursday to defend its title at the Fierce Founders bootcamp at the Communitech Hub in Kitchener, Ont.

Niki Pryor, the CEO of St. John’s startup Brownie Points, will find out in the afternoon whether she

With one month to go, Scott Stevenson has already received commitments of $24,568 – almost one-quarter of his $100,000 target – in the Kickstarter campaign for his new musical instrument, the Mune.

The Mune is a hand-held instrument that allows

A Fredericton startup company is looking at about 250 cities in the U.S. and Canada with populations of less than 150,000 as the target market for its product to improve transit systems.

Alex Kall, CEO of ReadyPass, admits there are other firms

Our Job of the Week column today highlights a position at Springboard Atlantic, the organization that coordinates and promotes commercialization at 19 academic institutions across Atlantic Canada.

Springboard is looking for a Program and

Female entrepreneurs and mentors are invited to prepare for the second year of SheEO’s An Act of Radical Generosity, an initiative that last year raised half a million dollars to fund five female-led Canadian enterprises.

The brainchild of serial