Hannes Weiland and Robert Niven at CarbonCure Technologies in Halifax asked on Twitter last week why no one in the Nova Scotia election is discussing the potential of startups, and asked me to weigh in on the matter.

“I'll bet I'm not alone in

Puritas Energy Inc. is striving to make sure that calamities like Hurricane Sandy aren’t exacerbated by failing emergency generators, brought on by changes in the composition of diesel fuel in the past five or six years.

The Halifax company has

Invest Atlantic, the conference for the Atlantic Canadian startup community, has named the companies that will appear at its PitchCamp on Sept. 24 in Halifax.

Invest Atlantic will host PitchCamp the night before the main conference as a showcase

Almost three years ago, New Brunswick Premier David Alward sat down with Robert Hatheway to offer the Fredericton orthodontist and businessman the chair of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. 

From that discussion, Hatheway understood that

The latest incubation centre and program for Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs were launched in Fredericton on Thursday with the aspirations of being a national or international enterprise by the spring.

Knowledge Park, a development for knowledge

Compilr, the Halifax company whose online development environment allows users to learn, write and test code in the cloud, has received interest from a number of potential suitors that may be interested in buying its assets.

Founder and CEO

Halifax-based Karma Gaming, which develops video games for regulated lotteries, has added to its Series A round of venture capital with a $1 million funding from Vanedge Capital in Vancouver.

The funding, Vanedge’s first in Atlantic Canada, is

Eggroll Digital Studios Inc., a new mobile and software development company, is launching in the Miramichi region with an investment from the Miramichi Technology Fund, which was established by former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna.

The

Ladies Learning Code, the national group that introduces people of all ages and genders to programing, is coming to New Brunswick.

The group began in Toronto a few years ago and came to Atlantic Canada earlier this year with a few sessions in

Mindful Scientific, the Halifax company whose portable device can detect head trauma instantly, has been selected as one of six North American finalists in the IBM Global Entrepreneur Competition.

CEO Ying Tam said Monday the company will

Performance Genomics Inc., a Truro-based biotech company that aims to improve the fertility of livestock, has received a $250,000 equity investment from Innovacorp, capping off a year in which it has raised more than $500,000 from a variety of

Robert Niven looked around the packed room at the Innovacorp Enterprise Centre on Friday and said it once again: “I love this event.”

The CEO of Halifax-based CarbonCure Technologies has good reason to love Innovacorp’s I-3 competition, whose