Confessions of an Entrepreneur
First things first. Small business owners are not so inclined to confess how they are feeling about their own small business ... especially when they are stressed to the point where their jaw feels...
View ArticleVesuvius Preps for Gen Con in August
On a beach in Greece in 2004, Konstantinos Manos and Dimitrios Xanthakis were playing a browser game. “We can make games 10,000 times better than this one — in a weekend!” Manos said. They laughed it...
View ArticleVelocity: A Unique University Facility
When Ted Livingston was 23 years old, he had a problem not many people that age face: he had to get rid of $1 million. Livingston is the Founder and CEO of Kik.com, the high-flying chat service that...
View ArticleSingolar Enters SAP Startup Program
By attending a Canadian government program in Silicon Valley, Wolfville-based Singolar has initiated a relationship with one of the world’s biggest enterprise software companies. Five weeks ago, we...
View ArticleThe Millennial Dream to Air March 15
As the American Dream gives way to the more socially responsible Millennial Dream, this region should work to attract and keep members of the millennial generation, argues Greg Hemmings, founder and...
View ArticleJob of the Week: BlueLight Analytics
This week in Job of the Week, we are featuring a posting from a company involved in dental health: BlueLight Analytics of Halifax is looking for a software developer. BlueLight specializes in the...
View ArticlePACTA Wins Fundica Roadshow
PACTA, the Halifax company whose technology helps to manage contracts, won the Atlantic Canadian stop in the Fundica Roadshow on Friday, securing a trip to and office space in Silicon Valley. The...
View ArticleSoricimed Wins Orphan Drug Status
Sackville, N.B.-based Soricimed Biopharma Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing peptide-based cancer therapeutics, has won a key regulatory approval from the Food and Drug...
View ArticleLux Wind Crowdfunding for Trials
A Halifax company has launched a $500,000 to $800,000 crowdfunding campaign to test a revolutionary form of wind turbine that could improve the economics of wind power. Lux Wind Turbines is raising...
View ArticleTech Leadership Event Set for May
Communitech has announced the speakers who will join keynotes Ray Kurzweil and Robin Chase in presenting at the Tech Leadership Conference in May. The Tech Leadership Conference – to be held at...
View ArticleR3 to Honour 3 NB Researchers
Three leading New Brunswick researchers will be honoured in Fredericton next Wednesday at the R3 Gala, which celebrates the innovations of the province’s top applied researchers. They are: Liuchen...
View ArticleAlaunus Sets Sites Beyond Ontario
With thousands of carers now using its software in Ontario, Alaunus is working on a plan to extend its reach into other Canadian provinces and the U.S. The Waterloo-based company’s HealthPlanr software...
View ArticleCan Entrepreneurship Save Us?
So Maclean’s magazine has touched quite a nerve in New Brunswick. The national weekly this month published an article with the apocalyptic title, “Can anything save New Brunswick?” As expected, it...
View ArticleAgile Signs Deal with China’s Gaitech
Agile Sensor Technologies Inc., a St. John’s maker of components for the robotics industry, has landed six figures in funding from and a partnership agreement with Gaitech International Limited of...
View ArticleJob of the Week: Sequence Bio
Today in Job of the Week, we are featuring an opening for Manager of Technical Development at Sequence Bio of St. John’s. Founded in 2013, Sequence works with partners to analyze vast sets of data from...
View ArticleCelebrating Youth Entrepreneurship
Atlantic Canada last week hosted a flurry of youth and student entrepreneurship events, with hundreds of participants and cash prizes totaling thousands of dollars. The highest profile event was YES...
View ArticleRevIQ To Double Staff in 2nd Quarter
A new Charlottetown firm that helps game and app developers increase income has tripled its staff in six months and plans to double it again by Canada Day. As it is now structured, RevIQ is more a...
View ArticleVolta Hires Jesse Rodgers as CEO
Halifax’s Volta Labs has named Jesse Rodgers, the founding director of both Velocity and the Creative Destruction Lab, as its new CEO. The startup house, which offers office space and mentoring to tech...
View ArticleHalifax’s InNetwork Acquired by gShift
InNetwork, the Halifax marketing startup that helps clients spread their messages through influencers, has been acquired by Barrie, Ont.-based gShift. GShift announced the all-stock deal in a statement...
View ArticleAterlo Raises $1M, led by MaRS IAF
Waterloo-based Aterlo Networks Inc. has raised $1 million in venture capital financing to help the company expand sales of its flagship product, Nightshift. Nightshift allows households with weak...
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