Our Policy During the Herald Strike
As many of our readers know, the union representing reporters, editors and photographers at the Chronicle-Herald in Halifax is now on strike. We want our readers to know our position during the strike...
View ArticleABK, Densitas Head to Silicon Valley
Two Halifax medtech companies, ABK Biomedical and Densitas, will travel to San Francisco next month to take part in the Dose of the Valley – a mentoring and networking event for Canadian life sciences...
View ArticleVidyard Raises US$35M Series C Round
Vidyard, the Kitchener startup that helps customers monitor the performance of their video-based marketing, has raised a US$35 million (C$49.7 million) Series C financing round, which will help it to...
View ArticleCorrection to our Report on Conceptualiz
Entrevestor erroneously reported on Monday that Halifax-based Conceptualiz has a partnership with Thinking Robot Studios of Dartmouth. We based our report on information that was provided to us. In...
View ArticleVenture NL, Killick Fund 3 Startups
Three St. John’s tech companies on Tuesday announced total funding of more than $2 million, including financing from the young Venture Newfoundland and Labrador fund and Killick Capital. Educational...
View ArticleSentinel Eyes Cross-Country Expansion
Having landed $525,000 in fresh funding, St. John’s startup Sentinel Alert is gearing up to push its worker safety software into the market across Canada. The company was one of three Newfoundland and...
View ArticleBuild Invests $3M in Icejam
Charlottetown-based icejam, whose technology incorporates real-world, real-time data in free-to-play games, has secured $3 million in equity financing from the Halifax-based venture capital fund Build...
View ArticlePropel ICT Applications Surge
Propel ICT, Atlantic Canada’s startup accelerator, has announced a 25 percent increase in the number of entrepreneurial teams applying for its startup programs. A total of 162 companies have applied...
View ArticleDigital NS Promoting Women in Tech
When Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia read about Deloitte Canada’s recent report on the status of women in tech, she had to agree with the dismal findings. Deloitte looked at the way women are recruited and hired,...
View ArticleJobs of the Week: NewAE, Onboardly
Jobs of the Week is beginning February with a couple of opportunities at Halifax’s NewAE Technology Inc. NewAE has developed technology to assist companies in finding the security weaknesses within...
View ArticleSuperpower Challenge Seeks Students
Brilliant Labs and its partners are looking for high school students in the Maritime Provinces to pitch their ideas for a new product or service in the Superpower Challenge. Several student teams or...
View ArticleCommunitech Unveils Rev’s 3rd Cohort
Communitech today announced the four companies that will make up the third cohort of Rev, the Waterloo Region accelerator that helps companies with traction to scale. The four companies are: • Alaunus,...
View ArticleSingolar Headed to Silicon Valley CTA
Singolar, a Wolfville, N.S., startup that uses advanced intelligence to help companies improve client interactions has been selected to attend the Canadian Technology Accelerator in Silicon Valley this...
View ArticleBluePoint Says Kindera Sales Rising
The story of how Antoine Boucher developed a device to protect children and teens from Internet threats is a familiar one to many parents. Boucher, the Co-Founder and CEO of Kitchener-based BluePoint...
View ArticleBDO Seeks Startups for VC Event
BDO Canada is looking for startups from across the country interested in pitching to venture capital investors at an event in Toronto on March 8. The business consultancy and accounting firm is seeking...
View ArticleProposify’s Recurring Sales up 1500%
Proposify, a software-as-service company that streamlines the proposal process, saw a 1500 percent increase in recurring revenue and 709 per cent increase in customers during 2015. The Halifax-based...
View ArticleLouisbourg Seafoods Launches Sea++
The fishing industry and technological innovation are being brought together in a competition that aims to solve problems for the fishing industry in Cape Breton and beyond. Louisbourg Seafoods has...
View ArticleAsiron Joins Masitek to Head Sales
Pablo Asiron, the former CEO of award-winning Industrial Internet of Things company RtTech Software of Moncton, has joined another Moncton-based business-to-business enterprise Masitek Instruments Inc....
View ArticleSustane Technologies Wins I-3
Sustane Technologies Inc., a Chester-based cleantech company, was named the winner Wednesday of the biennial I-3 Technology Start-up Competition, which recognizes the best new innovative business in...
View ArticleCareGuide Invests in Qimple
Toronto-based CareGuide, which owns several websites that help people find care-givers, has made a strategic investment in Moncton-based recruitment technology company Qimple. Qimple Founder and CEO...
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