The Atlantic regional venture capital fund will be managed by Patrick Keefe, now the Vice-President of Investment at Innovacorp, and include a $5 million contribution from Technology Venture Corp. of Moncton, the three Maritime Provinces announced

In launching their new casual gaming analytics tool dystillr, two Karma Gaming execs have used the technology to unveil some troubling trends at the world’s largest social gaming company, Zynga Inc.

Jay Aird and Duncan Gillis have posted a

The cover story of this month's Progress is my story on Jevon MacDonald's adventure in Silicon Valley, where he spent months raising his A Round for GoInstant. In the story, MacDonald pooh-poohs the rumours that he hit up existing contacts for

Like so many other people with health issues, singer-songwriter Peggy Gillis found the recovery from illness was an economic struggle as well as a physical toil. That was why she turned to the Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Network, or EDN, for

The news Thursday that Prince Edward Island will invest $2.5 million in the Regional Venture Capital Fund is just one of many signs that the fund’s organizers are actively courting more sources of capital.

Three sources familiar with the talks

Having bootstrapped for more than a year, Todd Thompson is preparing for a launch late this year of EventLift, an SaaS product that enhances contests by broadcasters or at events.

Based in the Halifax suburb of Hubley, N.S., EventLift simplifies

Having raised $700,000 in equity financing, Dartmouth Medical Research is poised to commercialize a “bone glue” apparatus that it hopes to test on cranial procedures in about two years.

The Halifax-based company has licensed two patents from the

Scene Sharp Technologies Inc., a Fredericton software company that improves the quality of colour digital photography, has closed a $300,000 round of angel financing, which it hopes will help to commercialize a new product for security cameras.

It was appropriate to have breakfast with Gerry Pond on the morning of Invest Atlantic last week, for it was during the same event a year earlier that I first heard him speak about the need for a regional entrepreneurial community.

So, just

Having raised more than $2 million in total financing, Charlottetown-based ViTrak is preparing to beta-test its Stepscan footprint analysis technology, which has applications in healthcare, security and sports.

The pre-commercial company is

We can’t count the great speakers we heard during Atlantic Innovation Week, but we did jot down a few of their more interesting quotes. Here’s a selection of our favourites:

“Traction is the new IP.”

-- Boris Wertz, Angel Tech Investor

Performance Genomics Inc., which uses genomics to identify the most fertile animals in a herd to increase the reproduction of livestock, won a highly competitive BioInnovation Challenge at BioPort Atlantic on Thursday, walking away with $40,000 in