When Charles Benaiah visited Dalhousie University to tell students about his experience founding and selling a startup in New York, he didn’t expect he’d soon be planning to establish his development team in Halifax.

But Benaiah, who received

A group of seasoned investors and entrepreneurs will launch a new angel investment group in Halifax today with a pledge that they will not charge companies any fees to pitch to the group.

Having already attracted about 30 investors, Atlantic

Money and how to obtain it will be one of the themes of this year’s BioPort Atlantic Conference, which will take place at Halifax’s Westin Nova Scotian hotel on October 9 and 10.

“Putting more focus on money reflects what we’re hearing from our

As part of the province’s innovation strategy, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation last week launched a new graduate and doctoral scholarship initiative mainly aimed at students in the sciences.

The provincial innovation agency is

Grey Island Energy, a St. John’s, N.L., clean tech company, is on a mission to raise $750,000 to finance a series of tests to validate its wave energy technology.

The company, which operates out of the Genesis Centre at Memorial University of

Introhive Inc. has raised its current round of funding to about $5 million with a strategic investment from Salesforce.com of San Francisco.

The Fredericton- and Washington, D.C.-based startup said in a statement Wednesday that Salesforce had

Smart Skin Technologies of Fredericton has unveiled a new application for its pressure-sensitive material that is already finding traction with a few global food and drink producers.

The company has developed technology called Quantifeel, which

A personal help guru from San Diego tomorrow is going to use a speech in Montenegro to launch a new service on a platform developed by a Halifax tech company.

During the speech in the Balkan country, Marshall Goldsmith, the author of What Got

In a rather tidy and peaceful incubator in St. John’s, N.L, Keith Makse and Christo Stassis are hard at work, creating a world being overrun with a desert plague, certain destruction and Victorian morals.

The duo are the principals of Red Meat

As STI Technologies Ltd. was putting the final touches on its $17 million financing last week, investors and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley were busily discussing a new funding feature on the funding website AngelList.

These two news items from

When the inaugural 48 Hours in the Hub kicked off in Boston last night, the official list of 25 participants included four startups from Atlantic Canada.

Canadian Entrepreneurs in New England, a network of Canuck expats in the Boston area, is

This is a special week for me, largely because of a project that has little to do with Entrevestor.

Many of you already know that I’m working on a book called The Jew Who Defeated Hitler, which is the story of Henry Morgenthau, Jr.’s role in