Innovacorp Unveils $1.7M in Funding
Nova Scotian startups will soon have the opportunity to access about $1.7 million in non-dilutive financing through new programs unveiled by Innovacorp in the last few weeks. The Nova Scotia innovation...
View ArticleVenn Offers Pan-Regional Workshops
Venn Innovation, the Moncton-based tech support organization, has announced a series of workshops to be held across the region to help startups learn more about competitive intelligence. The...
View ArticleNielsen Takes on Sentrant Assets, Staff
Sentrant Solutions, the Fredericton cybersecurity company that combats fraudulent online advertising, has quietly exited, with the media-rating giant Nielsen Holdings buying key assets and hiring its...
View ArticlePond Wins EY Achievement Award
Gerry Pond, the dean of the tech movement in Atlantic Canada, will receive the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Atlantic Lifetime Achievement award next month. EY said in a statement Tuesday Pond would...
View ArticleACOA, Innovacorp Grant $2M to Volta
As it plots its expansion in downtown Halifax, Volta Labs has received $2 million in funding from the federal government and the province of Nova Scotia. The two governments announced Tuesday that the...
View Article300 Attend Halifax Startup Celebration
Would-be entrepreneurs should build their businesses around problems worth solving, a large audience was advised Tuesday night as they gathered in the Halifax Central Library to learn from the...
View ArticleSimplyCast Launches Version 9.0
SimplyCast, a Dartmouth-based leader in communication automation, is launching the ninth iteration of its multi-channel platform. The company said in a statement this iteration, dubbed 9.0, will update...
View ArticleBird Takes SM-Heart to MassChallenge
Thomas Bird used a trip to Israel to make sure his Fredericton-based company SM-Heart was accepted into the MassChallenge Accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland. This globe-trotting startup is developing...
View ArticleSydney Hosts #PitchTweet Next Week
A series of events next week in Sydney will teach participants how to use Twitter to promote their business. Momentum and Twitter Canada will host Twitter 101, the #PitchTweet symposium, and the...
View ArticleNB’s New $7M-a-Year Sidecar Funds
Opportunities NB has established two sidecar funds that could add $7 million in equity financing each year to the funding totals for New Brunswick startups. The Crown corporation, which attracts and...
View ArticleSpringboard’s Mathis Steps Down
Chris Mathis, the President and CEO of Springboard Atlantic, is stepping down from the organization that promotes and coordinates the commercialization of technology at Atlantic Canadian post-secondary...
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10 Join Lazaridis Scale-Up Program
The Lazaridis Institute this week named 10 growth-stage companies from across the country to the second cohort of its Lazaridis Scale-Up Program. The Institute, which operates out of Wilfrid Laurier...
View ArticleSpring Loaded in Lazaridis Program
Months after launching its revolutionary knee brace, Spring Loaded Technology is entering the Lazaridis Scale-Up Program, one of the country’s leading accelerators for growth-stage companies. The...
View ArticleJobs: CloudKettle, NBIF, Springboard
We have a range of posting in our Jobs of the Week column today, from the CEO of the organization that coordinates university commercialization to a tech consultant to a marketing manager. The New...
View ArticleSomaDetect Making Waves in the US
SomaDetect, the Fredericton company that helps dairy farmers detect early signs of disease in their cattle, is becoming the most precocious of startups. The company, which began only last year, is...
View ArticleFour Vie for NB Bioscience Award
With Global Biotechnology Week beginning Wednesday, New Brunswick biotech organization BioNB and the law firm McInnes Cooper will present the province’s Bioscience Achievement Award this week. The...
View ArticleCloudKettle Names 1st Senior Partner
CloudKettle, the Halifax SaaS tech consultancy that advises major international customers, is hitting a milestone this week. Founder Greg Poirier announced Monday that CloudKettle is bringing on the...
View ArticleCDL-Atlantic Names 24 Mentors
Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic, the East Coast component of the new countrywide innovation accelerator, has named its roster of mentors, which includes such national business leaders as John Risley...
View ArticleLearnSphere Offers $2.2M to Exporters
LearnSphere, a program that has helped small businesses in New Brunswick to export for 14 years, is now being rolled out across Atlantic Canada. With new funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities...
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How Startups Can Improve their Tweets
Twitter is an effective tool for reaching a global market, but startups should try a few tricks to up their game when using the social media platform. On Tuesday, a group of startup founders in Cape...
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