The third annual MentorCamp Atlantic will take place at the Delta Halifax next week, linking up eight leading startups with a host of mentors from Atlantic Canada and around the world.

The event is the brainchild of British investor Permjot

When the Atlantic Angels hold their first meeting on Oct. 22, it will represent a huge opportunity to usher new blood into the investment community.

That much we know.

But as I spoke to a few entrepreneurs last week, it became apparent that

Within 18 months, Michael Uhlarik believes the upmarket electric motorcycles he’s designed will be ripping around some of the major bike tracks in the U.S.

If he ever doubted this vision, the CEO Amarok Electric Motorcycles of found validation

The Pond-Deshpande Centre at the University of New Brunswick late last week announced the first cohort of entrepreneurs it is supporting with mentorship, funding and other services.  

The Pond-Deshpande Centre’s mission is to accelerate the

I want to celebrate Thanksgiving by letting everyone know that I've concluded a contract to publish The Jew Who Defeated Hitler with Prometheus Books of Albany, N.Y.

I’m thrilled to be working with Steve Mitchell and his team at Prometheus. They

Spring Loaded Technology of Halifax on Thursday won the third annual BioInnovation Challenge, capturing the $35,000 first prize and gaining further validation of its innovative knee  brace technology.

The top prize at the pitching competition at

The energetic startup community in St. John’s, N.L., will stage its first Startup Weekend next month, and has already sold out more than half the spots available for the 54-hour technology-business competition.

Jason Janes, a co-founder of

Refuel Systems, a Dartmouth fuel filtering outfit, is looking to increase the deployment of its filtering devices that are now on active service across the U.S. and Canada.

The group builds devices that “polish” fuel, which means they solve a

Late last month, USA Today published my latest story on Canadian technology, which featured InteraXon of Toronto. You can find it here. This is a really cool company, headquartered in the trendy neighbourhood around Spadina and King, just down the

Last week, I wrote that more institutional money is coming into Atlantic Canadian startups, which is good because the world of funding is changing.

That was the good news. But it is counterbalanced by some bad news, which is that too many

We want to offer huge congratulations to Tim Houston, a member of the startup community who was elected to the Nova Scotia legislature last night.

Running for the Progressive Conservatives, Houston won the Pictou East seat in last night’s

We’ve been getting requests to remind the startup community that deadlines are approaching for some high profile competitions, and people should get their names in. With luck, they’ll be as successful as Mindful Scientific has been in a recent