Tickets Available for Manning Event
Tickets are now available for the reception honouring the Atlantic Canadian nominees for the 2019 Ernest C. Manning Innovation Awards, which present cash prizes totalling $145,000 to winners. The...
View ArticleClockk Launches Time Record App
Almost two years after winning $25,000 at the first Volta Cohort pitching event, Paul Doerwald has launched his product Clockk, an automated time-tracking app for freelancers and small agencies....
View ArticleSquiggle Park in Florida Accelerator
With its latest product generating weekly growth of 10 percent, Dartmouth-based edtech company Squiggle Park is attending the Rally accelerator in Orlando, Fla., to improve its performance further....
View ArticleJobs: Dash Hudson, Protocase
Our Jobs of the Week column today features openings for a Quality Systems Manager at Protocase in Sydney and a Junior Project Manager at Dash Hudson in Halifax. Established in 2001, Protocase makes...
View ArticleRegion’s Startups Eye Stock Market
Much has been written about the record year in funding for Atlantic Canadian startups last year, but one facet of startup fundraising in the region has been largely overlooked: the growing role of the...
View ArticleVenn Leads Mission to Money 20/20
Venn Innovation will lead a group of 10 technology companies to the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas from Oct. 27 to 30 with the goal of increasing sales within the financial services space. The...
View ArticleArolytics Preps for Oil Patch Change
The founders of a startup that aims to help oil and gas companies track their greenhouse gas emissions believe their business is poised for rapid growth. Arolytics was developed at St. Francis Xavier...
View ArticleShiftKey, Dal CS Grow Together
With computer science enrollment soaring at one of its key constituencies, ShiftKey Labs is developing programming to encourage tech entrepreneurship among students. ShiftKey Labs is housed in the...
View ArticlePuddister Wins EY’s EoY Award
Larry Puddister, Executive Chairman of St. John’s-based integrated solutions provider Pennecon, is this year’s EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 Atlantic winner. Puddister’s entrepreneurial journey...
View ArticleIsenberg Details Scalerator Success
When the University of New Brunswick hosts its Future of Innovation conference on Saturday in Fredericton, one of the highlights will be Daniel Isenberg speaking on his Scalerator program. In...
View ArticleStartup Weekends Set for CB, PEI
Startup weekends are being planned for Sydney and Charlottetown in the coming month, giving aspiring entrepreneurs a chance to learn how to develop a business idea in a single weekend. Techstars...
View ArticleJennifer Wagner Named to Clean50
CarbonCure Technologies' Jennifer Wagner has been named to the Clean50, which each year recognizes 50 Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to clean capitalism. As Executive Vice-President...
View ArticleRising Number of Startup Launches
One of the changes that have taken place in the East Coast startup ecosystem in the past four or five years is the region has ratcheted up its capacity for launching new companies. As part of our...
View ArticleDensitas Joins Nuance Marketplace
Halifax-based Densitas Inc. whose software helps assess the density of breasts during mammograms, announced this week its densitas densityai software will be soon available on the Nuance AI...
View ArticleSnapAp Captures National Award
When the Channel Innovation Awards were held last month, one of the big winners was Moncton-based SnapAp, a small-but-growing company that makes payment software. In the national competition organized...
View Article3 Win Retail Innovation Awards
Halifax-based Dash Hudson is one of three Canadian innovation companies to be honoured at the upcoming National Retail Innovation Awards in Halifax. The David Sobey Centre for Innovation in Retailing...
View ArticleShaw, Proof Win Startup Awards
Atlantic Canadians captured two national Startup Canada Awards on Thursday night – Ignite Fredericton CEO Larry Shaw for Entrepreneur Promotion and Halifax-based company Proof as Innovator of the Year....
View ArticleBreatheSuite Closes $550K Round
St. John’s-based BreatheSuite Inc., which helps people to use inhalers properly, has raised a $550,000 round of equity financing led by Venture NL, the Newfoundland and Labrador fund overseen by...
View ArticleMCE Finalist in Global Awards
The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship was named one of five finalists in the emerging entrepreneurship centre category of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Center’s annual awards. Though the...
View ArticleAlpha Dog Acquired by Bethesda
Bedford-based Alpha Dog Games, one of the leading mobile-game developers in Atlantic Canada, has been acquired by Bethesda Softworks of Maryland for an undisclosed price. Founded by Jeff Cameron and...
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