Brad Touesnard exemplifies a segment of the startup world that is too rarely celebrated — the folks who work on their own or in small groups and soldier on from one venture to another until something works out.

Three weeks ago, the Cape Breton

There’s been so much going on in East-Coast-Startup-Land recently that it would be difficult to pick out just one good news story of the year. But the folks at BioNova believe they have one. It began with a seeming disaster.

Last week, BioNova,

There’s nothing uncommon about a crowdfunding campaign to raise a few thousand dollars for a good cause, but RTV Group of Saint John is raising the bar with its charitable crowdfunding campaign.

The company, which is trying to battle drunk

After attending business dinners in Halifax and Fredericton last week, it’s becoming apparent that two themes are developing in the evolution of the regional start-up community.

First, the tech crowd is going to become a pillar of the overall

Resson Technologies has an idea for fighting crop disease that is so simple that it makes you wonder why no one thought of it before.

I first heard about the company at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s Breakthru Boot Camp in January,

A bit of news: Entrevestor Editor Carol Moreira will release her second Young Adult novel this summer, and we’re inviting all our readers to check out her crowdfunding campaign to pre-order the book and contribute to the project.

Membrane is a

Halifax-based Cloud A, which offers a flexible infrastructure-as-a-service solution over the cloud for Canadian customers, is looking for groups to participate in its public beta test.

Cloud A was formed last year by Brandon Kolybaba, the

TitanFile Inc., the developer of a secure collaboration and document-sharing system, has unveiled new features for its product, including the TitanFile Secure Deposit Box, which makes it even easier and safer for clients to receive communications.

St. Mary’s University’s Masters of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation program, which will launch this autumn, has already accepted eight students and is still receiving applications.

The Halifax university hosted its official launch of

Best known for its real estate website TxT2look, the team at Citrus Mobile Solutions is staffing up for a range of projects for clients and looking for that “holy-grail” product that will make its name.

The team is headed by Brian Perry and John

Late last week, Robert Foley and Suhaim Abdussamad from Startup Kitchen posted the second Atlantic Canadian Startup Monthly, in which we discuss what's going on in the community around the region.

We've expanded the panel to include Janice

Trevor MacAusland, the Executive Director of PropelICT, won the Special Recognition Award at the 15^th annual KIRA Awards in Fredericton last night in recognition for his success in the developing the Launch36 accelerator.

Under MacAusland’s