Tory Calls for Innovation Corridor
Toronto Mayor John Tory on Wednesday called for his city and Waterloo Region to work more closely to develop and promote the two cities as a single technology corridor. Tory made the call during a...
View Article5 Thoughts on the New Volta CEO
On Monday, Volta Labs announced that Jesse Rodgers will be the new CEO of the Halifax incubator for tech companies. Rodgers will be moving from Waterloo Region to fill the position next month. Here are...
View ArticleCoke’s New Model for Innovation
Corporate and statup communities should embrace a new collaborative model for innovation that will hasten the next wave of technology, Coca-Cola Co.’s head of innovation told a Fredericton audience...
View ArticleJobs of the Week: NewAE, Sentinel
This week in Jobs of the Week, we are featuring three positions from the Entrevestor Job Board that feature development and content marketing skills. NewAE Technology of Halifax is looking for a...
View ArticleC100 Launches Ambassadors Program
C100, the organization that helps Canadian startups navigate Silicon Valley, has launched a program of ambassadors across Canada. The San Francisco-based group announced last week that it has named a...
View ArticleWagner Brings Hard Lessons to UNB
The new executive-in-residence at University of New Brunswick teaches his students more than how to develop, fund and sell a product. David Wagner can also teach them the importance of luck and timing,...
View ArticleIWT: Scaling Remote Water Treatment
There are two big things Patrick Kiely hopes his company Island Water Technologies will accomplish in 2016: one he is certain will happen, and the other he hopes will happen. Montague, P.E.I.-based...
View ArticleAVF Seeks Presenting Startups
Atlantic Venture Forum, an investor conference that showcases startups on the Canadian East Coast, is looking for founders to present at this year’s event June 22 and 23 at the Westin Nova Scotian in...
View ArticleThe 2015 Entrevestor Survey
Today we are launching our annual survey of Atlantic Canadian startups -- a key component in allowing us to provide you with news on the East Coast startup community. We're asking each Atlantic...
View ArticleMediaSpark Crowdfunds Card Games
Interviewing MediaSpark CEO Mathew Georghiou about his new Kickstarter campaign is a surprising experience. You start talking about the crowdfunding of his new board game and end up hearing about his...
View ArticleEyeball for Tournaments, Leagues
Eyeball Inc., the Bedford company that’s developed an online network for amateur sports, has launched a new web-based platform for league and tournament organizers. The company said in a statement...
View ArticleOne Immigrant Entrepreneur’s Story
With his focus on entrepreneurship, new technologies and immigration, Akram Al-otumi is working hard to grow the population and economy of Nova Scotia, his adopted home. Halifax-based Al-otumi is a...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs3.0 Shuts Down
After a quarter-century of helping Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs3.0 is closing down. The non-profit organization formerly known as Entrepreneurs’ Forum announced Thursday that its...
View ArticleUbique, SkySquirrel Land VC Funding
Ubique Networks Inc., a Sydney startup that reduces the lag in multiplayer online games, has landed venture capital funding from Toronto-based Extreme Venture Partners and Innovacorp of Halifax. The...
View ArticleBriefs: Kinduct, SimplyCast, V4C
ACOA Funds Venture for Canada Program Top university graduates from across Nova Scotia in June will begin two-year paid fellowships at some of the province’s most promising emerging and early-stage...
View ArticleJob of the Week: Fiddlehead Technology
This week in Job of the Week, we are featuring a position with Fiddlehead Technology, which is seeking a principal software engineer on the Entrevestor Job Board. Fiddlehead Technology is based in...
View ArticleVelocity Fund Rewards 7 Startups
The Velocity Fund on Thursday presented a total of $125,000 in seed funding to seven companies whose products range from hardware that can diffuse landmines to an app that eradicates the need for...
View ArticleHuddle: Aho Calls for Tech Advances
Former Finnish Prime Minister Esko Aho called on New Brunswick companies last week to capitalize on the second industrial revolution to prosper in the digital age. Huddle reported on Esko Aho’s speech...
View ArticleOur Latest Intelligence Report Is Out
We’re delighted today to launch our spring Entrevestor Intelligence report on Atlantic Canada, which focuses the growth of new startups, and the deal that sparked the startup craze in the region. As...
View ArticleWave of New Startups in 2015
Tanya Collier MacDonald in many ways exemplifies what was happening in the Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2015. She entered (and did well in) a competition. She worked with an accelerator...
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