Launch36, the Atlantic Canadian technology accelerator, will graduate its next six companies tonight at an extravaganza in Saint John, N.B., bringing the companies that have gone through the two-year-old program to 26.

Propel ICT, the New

It was the quintessential investor-entrepreneur lunch, the pitch resoundingly perfect, the potential riches laid bare.

It ended with a commitment and a hand-shake. The investors would take the lead in assembling a syndicated round for our Big

Innovacorp on Friday released the names of the 25 entrants in the I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition that have been invited to compete in Round 2.

A few of them have been covered previously in Entrevestor, and we’ve linked to those stories.

When he emigrated from Serbia to Canada in 2005, Milan Vrekic had just $1,250 and a suitcase. The young computer enthusiast made mistakes in his new home, but he survived then thrived. Now aged 29, Vrekic has already co-founded one successful

Milan Vrekic, entrepreneur and Executive Director of Volta Labs, shares four things he learned from observing Waterloo’s Communitech, that city’s hub for the commercialization of innovative technologies.

1. The only sustainable model is that

DeCell Technologies Inc., a Halifax biotech startup that is improving skin grafts for wound treatment, has landed about $500,000 in investment to finance clinical trials and its first processing system.

President and CEO Paul Gratzer said in an

Last night on Dragons’ Den, we witnessed two groups of Halifax children who exemplify all that’s great about student entrepreneurship.

The special student episode featured Hope Blooms, a north-end community garden project that grows its own

Two New Brunswick companies this week have been named to lists of Canadian tech companies making impressive strides.

Smart Skin Technologies of Fredericton was named to the CIX Top 20, a list of leading young tech companies recognized by the

Entrevestor and Progress Media today are proud to release our Entrevestor Intelligence report on Big Data in Atlantic Canada.

The report outlines how the Atlantic Canadian startup community fits into the global revolution in data analytics – the

The success of the Startup Weekend St. John’s this past weekend is matched by the buzz in the startup community in the Newfoundland and Labrador capital overall.

I was lucky to attend the Startup Weekend in St. John’s and it gave me a chance to

http://www.voltaeffect.com/Volta, the Halifax-based startup incubator, announced today it has become an Amazon Activator partner. Following is the press release describing the partnership:

Volta becomes Amazon Activate program partner 

Sentinel Alert, a cellphone app that can alert companies when an employee has had an accident, won the $15,000 first prize Sunday at Startup Weekend St. John’s, capping off a coming-of-age event for the city’s startup community.

Startup Weekend