Goalline Bought by Blue Star Sports
Goalline, the Halifax company that provides websites to youth sports leagues, has been bought Blue Star Sports for an undisclosed price, and together they plan to develop an integrated technology...
View ArticleRev Accelerator Names Cohort 4
Communitech has unveiled the fourth cohort of its Rev accelerator, with five companies being welcomed into the sales-focused program. The six-month accelerator takes in companies with some traction and...
View ArticleCanadian VC Has Record 1st Quarter
Canadian venture capital investments hit a record in the first quarter of 2016, with Atlantic Canada holding its own in early investments but missing out on the late-stage deals that drove the market....
View ArticleFoodTender Spins Out Food Profit
Sticking with the restaurant business he knows so well, Andre LeBlanc has formed a subsidiary of FoodTender that helps eateries assess the true cost of the meals they prepare and ensure they are...
View ArticleTam Heads MaRS IT Heathcare Group
Ying Tam, the Halifax entrepreneur and mentor, has been named the head of the Digital Health Cluster at the MaRS Discovery District, the Toronto innovation hub. Tam is the CEO of Mindful Scientific,...
View ArticleSingolar To Compete in World Cup Tech
Nova Scotia marketing technology company Singolar has been selected as one of four international competitors in the AI/Robotics group in the World Cup Tech Challenge next month in Silicon Valley. The...
View ArticleHealth QR Gets $250K from Innvoacorp
Halifax-based Health QR, whose mobile app helps people to manage their prescriptions, has received a $250,000 seed investment from Innovacorp, which will help to bring its product to market. The Health...
View ArticleNorex Builds Front End for Lexumo
When Lexumo, a Boston-area cybersecurity company that protects automated machinery, needed an accessible user interface to complement its sophisticated systems, it contracted the work out to Norex of...
View ArticleBringing Global Experience to Propel
Growth is what Atlantic Canada’s startup community aims for, and the pursuit of growth motivates Anita Punamiya in her new role as CEO of regional accelerator Propel ICT. Propel is Atlantic Canada’s...
View ArticleBriefs: Genesis, Big Data, YEC
Genesis Centre to hold Evolution Program The Genesis Centre in St. John’s is seeking participants for its Evolution summer program. The Evolution program helps entrepreneurs at or just past the...
View ArticleBeijing’s Skyline Sets Up Halifax Base
Beijing-based Skyline’s core founders have arrived in Nova Scotia through the Startup Visa program and are now starting to build a development team in Halifax for future versions of its enterprise...
View ArticlePropel To Showcase 12 Teams June 21
Propel ICT, the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator, will hold a series of demo days for its current cohort in the next month, culminating with the main Demo Day June 21 at Neptune Theatre in Halifax....
View ArticleDozr Wins $100K at Rev Demo Day
Dozr, which has developed an online marketplace for construction equipment rentals, won all of the $100,000 prize money at Demo Day for Communitech’s Rev accelerator on Tuesday. The Demo Day featured...
View ArticleAppili Lands $3.3M, Starts Next Round
Halifax-based drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics Inc. has announced $3.3 million in funding and outlined a strategy based on “hitting singles and home runs”. Standing in his recently opened...
View ArticleCurbza Sets Out to Aid Fort McMurray
A Dartmouth startup has accelerated the launch of its mobile app because its founders believe the product could help distressed families rebuild their lives in fire-ravaged Fort McMurray. Curbza has...
View ArticleBiorefinery Conference Starts Monday
The Atlantic Biorefinery Conference will take place Monday to Wednesday in Halifax. Now in its fifth year, the three-day event aims to spark new projects that will turn natural resources into...
View ArticleIDEA Program Focuses on Healthcare
Healthcare and medical devices are the focus of this year’s IDEA Product Development Bootcamp. The themed approach is in contrast to last year’s bootcamp where participants worked on ideas in any...
View ArticleMTI Buys Rolith’s Business, Assets
Metamaterial Technologies Inc., the Halifax developer of special materials that alter light, has bought the business of Silicon Valley peer Rolith to accelerate the development of its manufacturing...
View ArticleJobs of the Week: Remsoft, Smartpods
This week in Jobs of the Week we are featuring three positions in software development from Remsoft Inc. of Fredericton and Smartpods Technologies and Dovico, both of Moncton. Remsoft specializes in...
View ArticleWMI Names 16 to Leadership Program
The Wallace McCain Institute at the University of New Brunswick has named 16 Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs to the ninth cohort of its Entrepreneurial Leaders Program The institute selected the cohort...
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