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Why We Need A Regional Community

  • Apr 30, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

In the last two years, I’ve sat separately with Iain Klugman and Gerry Pond and listened to their divergent views on developing start-up communities in Atlantic Canada.

Klugman, the CEO of the Communitech accelerator in Kitchener, Ont., said in

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B4Checkin’s Top Line Tripled in 2012

  • Apr 30, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Saar Fabrikant is careful in describing B4Checkin Ltd.’s revenue growth, but he makes it clear that the picture is rosy.

Fabrikant is the president and chief executive officer of the Halifax company, which has developed a suite of cloud-based

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Novawise Lands Funding from FAN

  • Apr 29, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

With its sales increasing rapidly, Halifax startup Novawise Inc. has closed a six-figure funding round from the First Angel Network to finance its international sales effort.

CEO David MacKinnon said Friday that the funding was worth

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ExtremeOcean To Develop Prototype

  • Apr 29, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Peter Gifford may have trouble finding a place to launch the working prototype of his new offshore supply vessel, even though it’s only nine metres long.

The problem: it’s 16 metres deep — same height as, for instance, an IMAX screen.

Gifford

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Klugman: Startup Community Is Local

  • Apr 26, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Iain Klugman bristled when I referred to the Atlantic Canadian start-up community in a recent interview. A start-up community, explained the CEO of Kitchener, Ont.-based accelerator Communitech, is a smaller entity than something spanning four

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Ryan: Backing Regional Community

  • Apr 26, 2013
  • Blair J. Ryan

[Editor's note: Blair Ryan, CEO of The Rounds of Halifax, contacted Entrevestor to respond to our article on Iain Klugman’s contention – printed previously on the Progress website -- that a startup community can’t span four provinces.We're

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Picomole’s Superb Trial Results

  • Apr 25, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Moncton-based Picomole Inc., which is developing a breath analysis device that detects cancer, said yesterday its technology has produced preliminary accuracy of 98.5% in independent trials, which it believes makes it a world leader in detecting

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Smart Skin Lands Early Adopter

  • Apr 25, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Smart Skin Technologies of Fredericton has reached an agreement with a major golf club manufacturer to help launch its new Quantifeel product, which tests the pressure points on a golfer’s grip throughout the swing.

Founder and CEO Kumaran

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Celtx Doubles Revenue in 3 Months

  • Apr 24, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

What a difference a year has made for Celtx, the St. John’s-based maker of pre-production software for the film industry.

By coincidence, I recently interviewed CEO Mark Kennedy, one year to the day after my last report on the company appeared

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CENE to Launch at Venture Forum

  • Apr 22, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Canadian Entrepreneurs in New England, a Boston-based group dedicated to helping Canadian tech and biotech companies navigate the New England startup community, will be launched at the Atlantic Venture Forum in Halifax in June.

Critical Path,

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CTA@NYC Aiding Tech Startups

  • Apr 19, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

When Andrew Cherwenka first showed up in New York to market his Toronto-based startup Authintic, he worked out of coffee shops, always on the lookout for a spot with free wi-fi.

Today, he’s working in shared space in the city’s Flatiron district

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Media Spot Me Mulls Move to Halifax

  • Apr 18, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Media Spot Me, a Kitchener, Ont.-based, startup that helps link journalists and experts, is considering a move to Halifax if it can make the economics of such a move work out.

 

The company was started two years ago by former television

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