Cisco Systems Inc. has named Fredericton-based Eigen Innovations one of six finalists at the Innovation Grand Challenge, the pitching competition at the prestigious Internet of Things World Forum on Dec. 7 in Dubai.

Eigen has developed

Emily Miller recently spent a month at the Halifax Central Library curating information on various Maritime and Ontario startups – she really wanted to work in the startup space. A political science major at St. Francis Xavier University, Miller

Patrick Keefe’s column on Friday drew big response from readers, both on Entrevestor and social media, and we’d like to share some of the feedback with you.

Keefe, a Partner at Build Ventures in Halifax, wrote a response to the analysis

A subsidiary of Chinese optics manufacturer Guangzhou Bosma Corp. has invested $500,000 in Halifax’s 4-Deep Inwater Imaging, expanding the microscope-maker’s R&D and distribution capacity.

The companies said in a statement today that Bosma USA

One of our unquestioned assumptions when we closed the Build Ventures’ fund in 2013 was that launching a startup in Atlantic Canada was cheaper than doing it in other parts of Canada or the United States. Our location, at least in this respect,

Many in the packed house at the FullSail conference in Fredericton on Wednesday very quickly learned that their preconceptions about crowdfunding were mistaken.

The conference on crowdfunding, organized by the Financial and Consumer Services

Innovacorp, Nova Scotia’s provincial innovation agency, invested a total of $5.9 million in 14 companies in the fiscal year ended March 31, including a previously unannounced $1 million funding of Halifax-based QRA Corp.

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Tallyfi, one of the four companies recently admitted to Communitech’s Rev accelerator, has pioneered the 21^st Century equivalent of the bouncer’s counter.

The Kitchener-based company is dedicated to helping bar staffs keep track of traffic in

When Freescale Semiconductor put together its Internet of Tomorrow Tour last year, it included an exhibit on a little-known piece of Atlantic Canadian technology many of us would prefer stayed underground.

Based in Austin, Texas and valued at

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth multi-channel marketing company, has issued the following press release:

SimplyCast is a Finalist for Three Awards

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, November 17, 2015 – SimplyCast, a global leader in marketing automation, is

GoVenture World, the long-anticipated business education game devised by Sydney serial entrepreneur Mathew Georghiou, has been shortlisted for Microsoft’s competition to find the best new game in Canada.

Georghiou is best known as the CEO and

Twenty teams will vie for a total of $115,000 in seed money at the Velocity Fund Finals on Nov. 26 at the SLC Great Hall at University of Waterloo.

The competition organized by Velocity, the university’s tech accelerator, comprises two tiers. At