JEDI Sets Up Aboriginal Accelerator
A new accelerator for aboriginal entrepreneurs has been established in New Brunswick, and it’s already witnessing great progress from the five teams enrolled in it. The inaugural Aboriginal Business...
View ArticleBridgit Sets Its Sites on the U.S.
The construction industry is often considered slow at adopting change but Kitchener-based startup Bridgit has broken ground quickly with its mobile application Closeout, a tool that simplifies...
View ArticlePropel Names 38 Startups to Cohort
The Atlantic Canadian accelerator Propel ICT on Wednesday named the companies that will join its most recent cohort, including a full slate of P.E.I. startups and its first member from Cape Breton. In...
View ArticlePress Release: Adler at Starting Point
The Starting Point Entrepreneurship Conference, which is now under way at the Sobey School of Business at St. Mary’s University, has released the following press release: Joey...
View ArticleLootbag Aims to Build Up User Base
Daniel Code-McNeil is looking for 10,000 Haligonians who want free stuff. Code-McNeil is a co-founder of Antigonish-based Lootbag, one of the finalists in the recent I-3 Technology Startup Competition....
View ArticlePioneers in Quantum Computing
Here’s a fact about the Institute of Quantum Computing that we can all get our heads around: tea is served each day at 4 p.m. It’s a custom that Executive Director Raymond Laflamme started at the...
View ArticleAffinio Attends Microsoft Accelerator
Having recently received $4 million in a Series A funding round, Halifax-based Affinio has now been accepted into the third cohort of Microsoft’s Seattle Accelerator. The software giant has been...
View ArticleGillam Takes her Music Store Global
After building a successful music school, St. John’s-based Lisa Gillam is taking the advice of her advisory board and developing her online digital music store for the global market. Gillam’s Munchkin...
View ArticleJobs of the Week: ProcedureFlow, STI
A pair of job openings at Saint John-based ProcedureFlow head this week’s postings in Jobs of the Week, which highlights postings on the Entrevestor Job Board. They are joined by postings from...
View ArticleAlpha Dog Launching MonstroCity
Alpha Dog Games has released its newest mobile game MonstroCity: Build and Destroy in the Philippines, as a prelude to a global launch. The Bedford-based mobile game company and its German online game...
View ArticlePress Release: Sociallogical Training
Sociallogical, the Saint John-based social media consultancy, has issued the following press release: Social Media Crash Course Set for Toronto TORONTO, ON -- Canadian social media strategy firm...
View ArticleTritonWear Sells Into 12 Countries
Kitchener-based startup TritonWear officially launched its wearable head unit for swimmers just before the new year and sales have already spread to a dozen countries worldwide. The unit, which...
View ArticleOrenda Scaling at IBM Incubator
The origin of Orenda Software Solutions — Cape Breton’s top entry in the recent I-3 Technology Startup Competition — dates back to the days when Tanya Collier MacDonald was working in public relations...
View ArticleBriefs: B4checkin, CarbonCure, Remsoft
B4checkin Launches b4golf and b4spa Halifax-based b4checkin, Inc., which provides cloud-based hospitality software, has announced the release of two new products – b4golf and b4spa. B4golf is a...
View ArticleUCIC Aims for 100,000 Users in KW
It was during the conflict in Ukraine last February that Sukhsagar Singh realized UCIC’s power in connecting strangers from around the world. Singh, the Co-Founder and CEO of SnapWise Inc., created...
View ArticleSoricimed Gets Positive Trial Results
Sackville, N.B.-based Soricimed Biopharma Inc. has received positive initial readings from the Phase 1 trials of its flagship compound SOR-C13, including indications that it can stabilize some cancer...
View ArticleUNB Expands Summer Institute
The University of New Brunswick is now accepting applications for the 2016 cohort of its Summer Institute, which will include for the first time a program in clean technology. The Summer Institute is a...
View ArticleConference to Focus on Wood Tech
The University of New Brunswick Wood Science and Technology Centre is hosting a conference on March 1 and 2 titled Looking Ahead: Opportunities in Value-Added Wood. The conference will look at the...
View ArticleHeyOrca! Adds Staff After Funding
Having finally secured seed funding of $650,000, Newfoundland startup HeyOrca! is looking to take on more staff and increase the sales of its marketing collaboration platform. Until recently, the...
View ArticleJackson: We Must Unite on Transport
Like many in the Waterloo Region, tech executive Tim Jackson knows that the commute to or from Toronto is not just a massive inconvenience. It’s a deterrent to economic growth. Back in 2007, when he...
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