Briefs: Navigate event, Startup Awards
Forum for business resources takes place next week Aspiring and established business owners will converge on the Mount St. Vincent University campus next week to attend a reverse trade show focused on...
View ArticleShaham Launches ‘EBay for Kids’
Halifax-based BuyMyLemonade.com, has unveiled a crowdfunding campaign with the aim of building sales for its product, which teaches young people entrepreneurship through online sales. The company was...
View ArticleBriefs: STI-PopRx, Propel, Volta
STI Technologies partners with PopRX PopRx, whose mobile pharmacy app helps people to manage their medication, has partnered with Halifax-based STI Technologies’ innoviCares program to offer Canadians...
View ArticleUNBSJ Offers Sales Course for MBAs
On July 20, a pilot project will begin at the University of New Brunswick Saint John that will advance the cause of teaching sales at Atlantic Canadian universities. The MBA program offered at the...
View ArticleCelebrating Tech and Femininity
There can’t be many technology blogs that also offer reviews of summer shoes and proclaim a girl’s right to feel sexy, but Sage Franch is known for celebrating her love of tech and her femininity....
View ArticleBriefs: Flixel, Medved, Hive Market
Flixel wins StartupFest Pitching Competition A company with New Brunswick roots walked away from StartupFest on Friday with the $160,000 first prize at the Montreal festival’s pitching competition....
View ArticleDMF Medical Preps for 2017 Launch
A Halifax medical technology company has a basic aim: to make anesthesia safer. DMF Medical plans to release its signature product, Memsorb, in the next year and hopes it will improve the process of...
View ArticleInvest NS Backs Navigate, Propel ICT
The Invest Nova Scotia Fund on Tuesday announced a pair of grants totaling more than $1.5 million that will support the ecosystem for startups, especially in Cape Breton. The fund — which aims to...
View ArticleRemembering Neville Gilfoy
With the passing of Neville Gilfoy, Atlantic Canada has lost three types of people that are in short supply – journalists, salespeople and genuine wits. Gilfoy was the founder and publisher of Progress...
View ArticleUNB Summer Institute Presentations
The University of New Brunswick’s Summer Institute will hold its graduation Friday night, with presentations by seven companies spanning the entrepreneurial spectrum. Organized by the J. Herbert Smith...
View ArticleTeaching the Rewards of a Sales Career
Young Atlantic Canadians, and the region’s economy, are missing out because young people don’t understand the rewards of a career in sales, according to professionals at executive search firm Venor....
View ArticleVelocity Fund Chooses Seven Winners
The Velocity Fund on Thursday awarded $125,000 to seven startups based at the University of Waterloo to help them with their product development. The Velocity Fund Finals are held three times a year to...
View ArticleLighthouse Labs’ New Halifax Program
Halifax native Rebecca Haliburton moved to Vancouver to work as the marketing manager for the tech education company, Lighthouse Labs. Six weeks later, the company told her that they would be expanding...
View ArticleChanneling Funds Into Drug Discovery
Kevin Sullivan had the pride of a guy showing off his new Cadillac. But it wasn’t a car he was displaying, it was the new laboratory that his company had recently moved into. The company is...
View ArticleBriefs: Cloud-A, Ignition, Ag Award
Innovation PEI’s Ignition Fund deadline on Friday Applications for Innovation PEI’s Ignition Fund – which offers $25,000 to launch or expand a business on P.E.I. – must be submitted by Friday. “The...
View ArticleQRA Lands $3M in ACOA Funding
Halifax-based QRA Corp. said Tuesday it has received $3 million in funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and gave its first indications that its two main products are finding a home...
View ArticleApplications Open for The Next 36
Applications are now open for the 2017 cohort of The Next 36, a mentorship program for the country’s leading undergraduates interested in entrepreneurship. Based in Toronto, The Next 36 takes in about...
View ArticleEast Coast Cities Show Tech Density
A new study of Canada’s information technology sector shows the country’s tech segment is bigger — and slower growing — than you might have expected. And the report offers glimpses of the tech scene in...
View ArticleMiller Seeks Input for G20 Gathering
Entrepreneur-in-training Emily Miller wants to be briefed by young Atlantic Canadians like herself so she can better represent the region in in her role as a G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance delegate....
View ArticleJobs of the Week: Forestry.io
Forestry.io, a Charlottetown company developing a new content management system, or CMS, is looking for two programmers to help the young company grow. Today’s Jobs of the Week column highlights the...
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