Nova Scotia’s digital technologies industry is booming, but the workforce lacks diversity.
That’s something Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia, president and CEO of Digital Nova Scotia, is working to change.
Incorporated in 1989, it is a non-profit that strives to promote Nova Scotia’s $2.5-billion digital industry; this figure includes the $1.5-billion industry itself and $1 billion in spinoff benefits.
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Continue ReadingEOLIO, a Halifax company that helps people with their personal online branding, has issued the following press release:
Halifax Partnership and Local Start-up eOLIO Announce Partnership
HALIFAX, NS – January 22, 2015: The Halifax Partnership announced today a partnership with local start-up eOLIO, its first start-up partner and newest investor.
The Halifax Partnership…
Continue ReadingThe greatest thing about Matt’s Got Balls is obviously the company’s name, but a close second may be its margins.
The Fredericton startupis the brainchild of Matt Vance, a University of New Brunswick engineering student with a blazing passion for golf. He has teamed up with his father, Kevin, and fellow student Josh Ogden to produce a business that retrieves golf balls from golf course water hazards and sell them online.
“What we’re developing now…
Continue ReadingAccreon, one of the largest tech consultancies in Atlantic Canada, is restructuring its ownership and leadership through a leveraged management buyout involving the Boston-based private equity firm, Mansa Capital.
Fredericton-based Accreon, which specializes in information technology for the healthcare industry, issued a statement on Tuesday saying it is in the final stages of the buyout. It did not reveal the…
Continue ReadingTo reflect the evolution of its business model, Swapskis is changing its name to Vendeve.
The Halifax startup began last year with the mission of helping women barter their skills with one another, so they could build up resumés and networks and eventually charge real cash for their services. Last summer, Founder and CEO Katelyn Bourgoin realized a better way to generate revenue for the business would be to be a cash-based market place for…
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