Jobs of the Week: Dal, Dash Hudson
A pair of openings at Halifax-based Dash Hudson and an opportunity at Dalhousie University’s Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship headline our Jobs of the Week column today. The Newman Centre is...
View ArticleHalifax Opens Innovation Outpost
The startup ecosystem in the region’s largest city got a boost Thursday with the launch of two initiatives overseen by the Halifax Partnership – the Halifax Innovation Outpost and the Halifax...
View ArticleSafa in Plug and Play with 1st Client
St. John’s-based Safa, which uses an artificial intelligence solution to help companies retain employees, has launched its product Safa Insight and is already working with its first enterprise client...
View ArticleBioNova Calls for Tax Credit Reforms
While applauding recent investment tax credit reforms in Nova Scotia, the province’s life sciences association wants further improvements, including offering the credits to investors outside the...
View ArticleBiotech Segment Continues To Grow
One of the strongest developments in the Atlantic Canadian startup community in recent years is the development of the life sciences segment – both the biotech companies and the ecosystem that supports...
View ArticleLeahy Revives 2 Zombie Startups
A Halifax entrepreneur is relaunching two “zombie startups” in a bid to revitalize the stalled businesses. John Leahy is the co-founder of Imagine That and Patient Intelligence. Both were created...
View ArticleRing Rescue Sells Out in 3 Weeks
When Patrick Hennessey and his fellow Dalhousie mechanical engineering students presented their final project before graduation, they likely had no idea it would one day save a priceless Blue Jays...
View ArticleSpark NS Awards $375K to 9 Teams
Spark Nova Scotia on Monday awarded $375,000 in prize money to nine companies located outside the metro Halifax area. The organizers said 37 companies qualified for the competition, which aims to...
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Fuck Up Nights Come to Moncton
Years ago, Rivers Corbett made a major mistake as the owner of popular restaurant chain Relish Gourmet Burger that led to the demise of the company. In an effort to grow it, he jumped into a...
View ArticleEntrevestor at 3 Events in St. John’s
I will be in St. John’s early next week and taking part in a few events Tuesday that will feature Entrevestor’s startup research and my own seminar on media relations. The first event is the...
View ArticleUNB Releases Innovation Map
The University of New Brunswick has released a new innovation ecosystem map, which demonstrates the importance of R&D to the provincial economy and makes a call to increase research spending. The...
View ArticleSMU Seeks Startups for VCIC
The Sobey School of Business at St. Mary’s University is seeking startups to participate in its annual student venture capital competition and possibly join the international search for “the most...
View ArticleOliver POS Preps for Full Launch
St. John’s-based Oliver POS is taking on about 10 clients a week for its online point-of-sales systems, so it now has clients on six continents. And it’s hoping to ramp that number up to 30 per week...
View ArticleFive Winners at Volta Cohort
Five founders carted off very big cheques worth a total of $125,000 at the standing-room-only Volta Cohort pitching competition in Halifax on Wednesday night. In its fifth pitching event, the Volta...
View ArticleVerafin Leads Record VC quarter
Verafin’s record-breaking venture capital deal showed up big-time in the most recent quarterly data report by the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. The CVCA’s third-quarter data...
View ArticleAppili Buys Anti-Fungal Drug Rights
Appili Therapeutics Inc., the Halifax drug-discovery company that listed its shares in Toronto last spring, has acquired the rights to develop a new anti-fungal drug candidate from a Japanese drug...
View ArticleMembertou Chief Recognized
Chief Terrance Paul of Nova Scotia’s Membertou First Nation has been awarded the 2020 Aboriginal business award for Lifetime Achievement by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business. Paul has been...
View ArticleEnergia To Hold Demo Day Dec 11
Energia Ventures next month will hold the Demo Day for its third cohort – a group rich in cybersecurity expertise. Overseen by the University of New Brunswick’s Technology, Management and...
View ArticleGallant: Still Focusing on Innvoation
After being elected Premier of New Brunswick, Brian Gallant gave himself the job of Minister of Innovation within his cabinet, and today he’s continuing that focus in a new role. After being out of...
View ArticleLaunching our Ecosystem Roadmap
We’re launching something new today on Entrevestor – our first Atlantic Canada Ecosystem Roadmap. The Roadmap is designed to help anyone find information about the startup ecosystem in the region. It’s...
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