Patchell Brooks Eyes Growth in 2019
Having secured such enterprise clients as TD Ameritrade and the Globe and Mail, stock market analysis company Patchell Brook Equity Analytics is expecting dramatic growth in 2019. The Miramichi...
View ArticleGenesis Launches Micro Fund
St. John’s-based Genesis has initiated a $775,000 micro fund that will provide initial financing to about 38 companies over the next three years. Genesis announced this week that the Genesis Micro Fund...
View ArticleDrive to Boost NB Exports
In what is described as a first for Canada, the Atlantic Canada Marketing and Export Centre, or AMEC, is opening a virtual centre that will support the marketing efforts of small and medium-sized...
View ArticleNACO to Support Region’s Angels
The National Angel Capital Organization wants to help nourish local investment groups in Atlantic Canada, but its CEO stresses that the development of angel groups in the region has to be organic. In...
View ArticleAtlantic Canada Books $158M in VC
Led by an off-the-charts performance in New Brunswick, Atlantic Canada recorded $158 million in venture capital investment in 2018, accounting for its biggest ever proportion of Canada’s VC funding....
View ArticleNL’s TotaliQ Teams up with UdeM
TotaliQ, a St. John’s IT company that helps businesses use the expertise of their workforce, has struck a partnership with Université de Moncton to develop artificial intelligence for the product. The...
View ArticleRegional Universities Excel in VC Contest
Students from Wolfville’s Acadia University won an undergraduate venture capital contest at a recent event, with a team from Mount Allison in Sackville, New Brunswick, taking second. Teams from other...
View ArticleB4checkin Books a Lake Tahoe Sale
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe said Thursday it will be the first casino in the Lake Tahoe area to install b4easypost, the credit card authorization payment and posting platform developed by...
View ArticleGenesis Launches Micro Fund
St. John’s-based Genesis has initiated a $775,000 micro fund that will provide initial financing to about 38 companies over the next three years. Genesis announced this week that the Genesis Micro Fund...
View ArticleA Tool To Measure Impact Investing
Fredericton has long been a hub of social innovation, and now a trio of female entrepreneurs hope the city will become a centre for measuring impact investing. R I D D L, a finalist for the New...
View ArticleEadie’s Glaucoma Testing Device
When Brennan Eadie, an ophthalmologist from Vancouver, moved to Nova Scotia from the other side of the country, he wasn’t expecting to stay. Eadie travelled out east for a one-year fellowship program...
View ArticleVR Training for Hazardous Industries
Better Than Reality asks a simple but important question: How do you train the younger generation to safely participate in high-risk industries? Its three co-founders believe the answer is virtual...
View ArticlePunch Review Aims to Aid Farmers
Ross Culberson considers himself a problem-solver, and he’s sure his startup Punch Review can solve a big problem for farmers. Culberson is a sixth-generation farmer himself, overseeing a 340-acre...
View ArticleApp Connects Youth to NS Professionals
The Halifax Partnership is launching Connector+, a web and mobile app for professional networking. The app provides an online version of the Partnership’s award-winning Connector Program that allows...
View ArticleSeeberger’s Sensory Friendly Forum
Christel Seeberger dreams of one day overseeing a digital forum that will tell people about sensory friendly places and products. She’s working toward that goal, and on Thursday night her Saint...
View ArticleCanum To Disrupt Fullerene Market
As a graduate student at Rice University in Texas, Felipe Chibante was inspired by his professor Richard Smalley, a co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes. On...
View ArticleHelp Prevent Me From Nagging You!
Please help me NOT pester you. I’ve been bothering people lately about filling out our survey, and I’d love to stop. Once you fill out our survey, I promise to leave you alone for the rest of 2019. If...
View ArticleThe Vantec Model of Angel Funding
One of the country’s most successful angel communities showed its stuff earlier this month as the Vantec Angel Network held its monthly pitching session. About 150 people – half of them investors –...
View ArticleCanum Wins $446K in Breakthru
Canum Nanomaterials, which aims to disrupt the market for fullerenes, is one step closer to financing its pilot facility after it won awards worth $446,000 in the Breakthru competition last night. The...
View ArticleJobs: Full Stack Developer at CoLab
Our Job of the Week column today showcases an opening for a Full Stack Developer at St. John’s-based CoLab Software. CoLab helps engineering teams better communicate and manage feedback when designing...
View Article