Some of Atlantic Canada’s startup community are wondering why Brandon Kolybaba, a hard-working and talented tech entrepreneur, is packing up and leaving.

According to Kolybaba, he is heading to British Columbia because the high cost of living

Swell Advantage, the Halifax startup whose app aids boaters, has released the following press release:

Swell Advantage Launches First Social Network for Boaters

Swell Advantage launches the first location based social network for boaters

After three months in Las Vegas, Milan Vrekic has launched the company he spoke of when his term as executive director of Volta ended last year.

The former CEO of TitanFile and his partner Colin White have launched Zora, a company that uses

CarbonCure Technologies, a Halifax-based maker of green construction materials, has issued the following press release:

Cind-R-Lite brings a sustainable masonry alternative to Las Vegas

Nevada's first established masonry manufacturer partners

SabrTech will soon start testing its algae-production product, the RiverBox, marking the beginning of the Halifax-based environmental technology company’s commercialization plan.

The Riverbox is a system that can grow algae anywhere, with the

The Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment at Cape Breton University has issued the following press release:

Verschuren Centre Launches Fund Targeting Sustainable Start-ups

(Sydney, NS) – Today, the Verschuren

At an Atlantic Institute for Market Studies symposium in February, Clearwater Seafoods president John Risley remarked, almost as an aside, that there was virtually no downside in a young person trying to start a business.

His rationale for such

When Steve Nicolle was looking for growth funding for Halifax-based pharmaceutical services company STI Technologies Ltd. in 2013, he decided the founding source that made the most sense was private equity.

STI was transitioning from a startup

It’s a good thing Corry Flatt was getting annoyed with the lengthy, paper-heavy process for filing Requests for Proposal, or RFPs. That annoyance—and the desire to get past it—enabled the marketer to create Waterloo-based Bonfire, a paperless RFP

Kevin Springer and Kyle Racki have forged an unusually successful partnership — forming two businesses and exiting one — despite a 20-year age gap and early religious differences.

Springer, 51, is president of Halifax-based PitchPerfect

I’ve been diving into the data we’ve collected on Atlantic Canadian startups, and one thing that’s become clear is that we underestimated job creation by startups in 2014.

Earlier this year, we reported that the results of our most recent survey

In recognition of Canada Day, we’re pausing today  to reflect on how lucky we are to live in Canada.

Every day on social media, I read friends complaining that Stephen Harper has ripped the heart out of the country. I hear conservatives complain