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Ethical Swag Grows via Partnerships

  • Feb 12, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Away from the glitz of this week’s Academy Award ceremonies, one story that didn’t get covered by the global media was a budding partnership that shows how quickly a young Cape Breton company is growing.

Tara Milburn, the Founder and CEO of

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Harbr Signs Deal with Killam

  • Feb 11, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

Construction AI startup Harbr will see its technology used on projects owned by rental housing giant Killam Apartment REIT, as part of a pilot deal announced in January.

The news comes as Harbr ramps up its business-to-business marketing efforts

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2 Days Left To Complete Survey

  • Feb 11, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

There’s still time to complete our survey, so please do it today if you head a qualifying startup.

I’ve been calling and contacting startups to prod them, and the comment I keep hearing is: ‘I’ve been meaning to get around to it but it slipped my

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UNB Teaches Founders Self-Care

  • Feb 10, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

A new course that helps entrepreneurs cope with the stresses of forming their own businesses has got off to a promising start at the University of New Brunswick.

Organizers hope that Entrepreneurial Resilience, which is a full-credit course, will

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Jobs: Propel Seeks EIR in Halifax

  • Feb 10, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Propel, the regional tech accelerator, is looking for an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in Halifax, and that opening headlines our Job of the Week column today.

The pan-regional organization offers a virtual accelerator called Incite – Phase 1 helps

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Verafin Named to 2020 Narwhal List

  • Feb 06, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based Verafin has been named to the 2020 Narwhal List, becoming only the second Atlantic Canadian company to be named to the log of Canadian companies that raise a lot of capital quickly.

Verafin made the list on the strength of its $515

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Densitas Breast Density Tool In PEI

  • Feb 06, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Densitas, whose software helps assess the density of breasts during mammograms, has announced that Prince Edward Island has become the second province, after Nova Scotia, to integrate its software across its screening program.

The

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Arsenault Wins GSEA Honours

  • Feb 04, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Ross Arsenault, a Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer at Halifax oceantech company Ashored Innovations, has won the $10,000 first prize at the Canadian finals of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.

Arsenault, who is now completing the

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Trip Ninja Partners with A1 Travel

  • Feb 04, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Trip Ninja has struck a partnership with Britain’s A1 Travel Deals under which the Halifax company’s FareStruture technology will be integrated with Globehunters.com, a subsidiary of A1 Travel serving the U.K.

Trip Ninja is a software-as-a-service

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With New Structure, IWT Eyes Growth

  • Feb 04, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Having adopted a new structure over the past year, Island Water Technologies is hoping to double installations of its Sentry unit this year, focusing on its key markets of California and the U.K.

Charlottetown-based IWT last year took on capital to

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SMU Places Third at Boston VCIC

  • Feb 03, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The undergraduate team from Saint Mary’s University finished third this weekend in the New England finals of the international Venture Capital Investment Competition, or VCIC

The team finished one point behind the silver medalists from Cornell,

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New Deadline To Fill Out Our Survey

  • Feb 03, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Thank you to all those who have filled in our survey – the response has been fantastic! We’ve received 105 completed surveys in just a few weeks, meaning we’ll be donating more than $1,000 to Australian wildfire relief.

But it’s not enough. We

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