Dane Creek Adds to Pet Food Venture
Dane Creek Capital Corp. this week agreed to buy pet-related assets of Dartmouth-based Nature’s Way Canada in its latest step in building up a Nova Scotia-based portfolio of sustainable pet food...
View ArticleNova Box Globalizes Local Products
Each of the ship captains currently in Halifax for the Tall Ships Regatta will take home a box full of Nova Scotia-themed treasures along with their memories. The Nova Boxes are being provided by Nova...
View ArticleSomaDetect Courts Vermont Farmers
As it begins its pilot project in New Brunswick, SomaDetect has been validating the international demand for its product. The Fredericton AgTech company recently signed letters of intent with...
View ArticleJob of the Week: Code + Mortar
Weeks after its relaunch, Code + Mortar of Halifax is building up its development team and looking for a senior developer. Code + Mortar headlines the Job of the Week column this week, having been in...
View ArticleInnovacorp Invested $5.6M in 2016-17
Innovacorp, the venture capital and innovation agency owned by the Nova Scotia government, sank $5.6 million into startups in its 2016-17 fiscal year, continuing at the same pace as the previous three...
View ArticleWe Should Follow Trump’s Lead
Now that I have your attention, let me explain what we mean by the headline. The Trump Administration (or what’s left of it) has set a target of three per cent annual economic growth each year of his...
View ArticleTruLeaf Launches Across Maritimes
TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture, the agtech company planning a chain of indoor farms across the country, announced Monday its locally grown microgreen products are now available in select Atlantic...
View ArticleAir Realty Helps With Mere Listings
A new Nova Scotia real estate brokerage has launched an online service that allows homeowners to list their homes themselves on the Multi Listing Service. Air Realty is the brainchild of Joshua Svec,...
View ArticleSquiggle Park Downloads Jump 5600%
Halifax-based edtech company Squiggle Park is starting August off the right way, pondering how to build on its app’s 5000-percent-plus jump in downloads in iTunes last month. The company, whose online...
View ArticleADM Sold to Vinci Energies
ADM Systems Engineering, a Moncton electronics engineering company, has been purchased for an undisclosed price French industrial giant Vinci Energies. The French company, which has 65,000 employees in...
View ArticleRitchie Gears Up for Incubator Launch
With more people, especially millennials, seeking work that is both meaningful and useful to society, Dale Ritchie is launching a Moncton-based accelerator and fund that will boost opportunities for...
View ArticleNBIF Reviews Options on 500 Startups
Expressing disappointment at the closure of 500 Startups Canada, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is now working with the fund manager to see what can be done about its investment in the fund....
View ArticleJobs: HeyOrca, Audiobooks.com
We have a couple of openings for developers – one in St. John’s, and one in Ontario – to headline the Jobs of the Week column today. St. John’s-based HeyOrca, which makes collaboration software for...
View ArticleUpFront and Others Mulling ICOs
Conor Daly and Kyle Gardiner produced a “Say What?” moment when they presented their company UpFront at the LaunchPad Dal Demo Day last month and said they were planning an ICO. The Dalhousie business...
View ArticlePilot Project Aims to Attract Investors
Springboard Atlantic and Invest Atlantic have teamed up to launch a pilot project aimed at bringing more investment to Atlantic Canadian startups. The two organizations issued a statement on Tuesday...
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Easing the Stress of Credit Cards
Credit cards are scary. Not just when you have a large balance on them, but even the process of choosing one can bring overwhelming confusion to the point where stuffing all your money under a...
View ArticleFAN Focuses on Biotech, Follow-Ons
As it continues to fund young companies, the First Angel Network has developed an investment niche for the biomedical space and is showing an eagerness for repeat investments. FAN, as it is known, has...
View ArticleMuise Turns Anxiety Battle into Startup
Entrepreneur Joel Muise’s struggles with mental illness motivated him to found his startup, Tranquility Online. Now Muise is seeking participants to test his online service for treating anxiety. Muise...
View ArticleJobs of the week: Dash Hudson
Halifax-based Dash Hudson just keeps on hiring. Today, our Jobs of the Week column is featuring three Dash Hudson openings – for a front-end web developer, sales development representative and an...
View ArticleCarbonCure in California Rail Project
Halifax-based CarbonCure Technologies has been selected to help produce environmentally friendly construction materials for the California High-Speed Rail project. The startup issued a press release...
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