Kinduct, Affinio Kill It with Pitches
To appreciate how successfully some Atlantic Canadian startups are scaling, check out these two pitches – one by Kinduct and the other by Affinio – that wrapped up recent West Coast accelerator...
View ArticleOur Report on Scaling Is Out
When the Halifax startup Proposify wanted to tell the world how it had grown in 2015, it put out a press release with some pretty gaudy numbers. Founded by tech entrepreneurs Kevin Springer and Kyle...
View Article1 Week Until Atlantic Venture Forum
The Atlantic Venture Forum, the conference that aims to link Atlantic Canadian startups with investors, has issued a last call to register for the event that starts one week from today in Halifax....
View ArticleMariner Grows With Shift Energy Buy
Last autumn, Mariner Partners concluded a sizeable transaction the way it does much of its business – quietly. The Saint John technology conglomerate works with a host of startups, and one that...
View ArticleBriefs: Sequence, VidSnippets, Volta
Tyler Wish named a Canadian Innovation Leader Tyler Wish, the co-founder and CEO of St. John’s-based Sequence Bio, has been named one of 10 Innovation Leaders by Navdeep Bains, the Minister of...
View ArticleHalifax Startup Group on Facebook
There’s a new social media platform to connect entrepreneurial Haligonians, and it uses that most ubiquitous of all networking sites, Facebook. St. Mary’s University student Mike Cyr created a group on...
View ArticleQimple Raises $1.1M, Led by NBIF
Moncton-based Qimple, whose software helps companies recruit talent, has raised a $1.1 million round of seed capital from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Toronto-based Green Century...
View ArticleNature’s Way Applauded by BioNova
BioNova, the Nova Scotian life sciences industry association, has chosen Nature’s Way’s acquisition of Ascenta Health as its good news story of the past year. The association last night held its annual...
View ArticleAlex Gillis and the Wisdom of Youth
Young entrepreneur Alex Gillis was keen to share his views on education with the Prime Minister when they met earlier this month. Gillis was one of eight young Canadians, (Halifax-based Sage Franch was...
View ArticleJobs of the Week: Celtx, KDP, Dynagen
Two sales and/or marketing positions and an opening for a full stack IoT developer headline our Jobs of the Week column today. Our offerings this week are located across the region. In St. John’s,...
View ArticleVidCruiter Aims to Triple Sales in 2016
Sean Fahey is keeping some impressive company today. The Founder and CEO of Moncton-based HR software maker VidCruiter is in Washington, D.C., where he is attending the Select USA conference. He’s been...
View Article25 Named to Fierce Founders Bootcamp
Communitech has announced the 25 teams that will participate in this summer’s Fierce Founders Bootcamp, an entrepreneurship program for female-led startups. The founders will complete the first phase...
View ArticleYour Guide to Pitchers at Propel, AVF
In the next three days, 26 Atlantic Canadian startups will pitch publicly in Halifax, and we’d like to help people learn more about them. The Propel ICT Demo Day at Neptune Theatre tonight, and the...
View ArticleWoodsCamp To Disrupt Timber Market
The thing to consider about WoodsCamp isn’t its pedigree, its potential social impact or its business case. They’re impressive, but the highlight of this young Mahone Bay startup is its ambition....
View Article8 Launch Startups Pitch at Demo Day
Eight companies from the Propel ICT Launch program pitched at Demo Day today Tuesday night, seeking in total investment of more than $3 million. The companies – two from each Atlantic Province --...
View ArticleSimplyCast Had 37% Growth in 2015
SimplyCast, the Dartmouth company dedicated to marketing automation, said Wednesday its revenue increased 37 percent in 2015. With clients in 175 countries, SimplyCast is a leading provider of...
View ArticleNB Biomatrix Aims for 2017 Production
In about a year, the co-founders of NB Biomatrix hope their company will have a plant in Saint John producing a solution that can help to clean heavy metals from the most contaminated water sites...
View ArticleShaw Extends CarbonCure’s Tech
Shaw Brick, Atlantic Canada’s oldest concrete masonry producer, has implemented CarbonCure Technologies’ sustainable technology across its entire production line. CarbonCure, a Halifax green building...
View ArticlePhotoDynamic Lands Funding from FAN
Halifax-based PhotoDynamic Inc. has raised funding from members of the First Angel Network, which will help bring its oral hygiene product to market. Formerly called Fenol Farm, PhotoDynamic has...
View ArticleJobs of the Week: MindSea, Kinduct
A couple of opportunities for specialized developers in Halifax are the focus of our Jobs of the Week column today. MindSea Development, a Halifax company that develops apps for iOS and Android...
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