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GoBumpFree Takes Flight
An ambitious Halifax startup that aims to make it easier for the world’s 1.7 million airline employees to take vacations, will be one of the pitchers at the Propel ICT Demo Day on tonight.
Danna Lavallee, an airline industry veteran, will present
Briefs: Propel, Ulrike, Island Advance
Startup Kitchen to Livestream Propel Demo Day
Anyone who can’t attend the Propel ICT Demo Day in Halifax on Tuesday will be able to see it live online.
Our friends at Startup Kitchen will be livestreaming the event here.
Propel last week named
Jobs: Adams Green, Sentinel Alert
Openings for sales people and customer engagement reps across the region highlight our Jobs of the Week column today.
Dash Hudson of Halifax is looking for a sales development representative and a customer success representative. Dash Hudson helps
CarbonCure Aims To Triple Clients
So much is happening at CarbonCure Technologies these days that the best way to illustrate the Dartmouth cleantech company’s progress is to zero in on its customer and revenue growth.
We could highlight that CEO Robert Niven was one of four winners
Celebrating Digital Life Sciences
There’s an industrial segment in which Atlantic Canada excels. The companies in this space have raised more than $30 million in 2016 alone. They are establishing offices in Silicon Valley. They’re gaining worldwide clientele.
The segment is the
Gardner Named Sequence’s Acting CEO
Chris Gardner has been named the acting CEO of St. John’s-based Sequence Bio, taking over from the company’s first CEO, Tyler Wish.
The company released a statement Wednesday saying that Gardner had assumed the position, and spokeswoman Karen
Our Latest Quarterly Report Is Out
Today we’re launching our fourth Entrevestor Intelligence report of 2016.
The cover story is something that I’ve been talking about lot lately in conversation: the intersection of information technology and life sciences. It’s an ill-defined
BDC Launches $135M Industrial Fund
BDC Capital today unveiled a new $135 million venture capital fund to support Canadian energy, industrial and cleantech start-ups with global potential.
The BDC Capital Industrial, Clean and Energy Technology Venture Fund II will follow on the
Briefs: Eyesover, EDN, SimplyCast
Eyesover Releases Issue Discovery Module
Fredericton-based Eyesover Technologies Inc. has released its new Issue Discovery module as the latest addition to its online media monitoring system.
Using Eyesover’s proprietary artificial intelligence,
Propel Names 11 Startups for Demo Day
Propel ICT, the regional accelerator, has announced the 11 companies that will present at its latest Demo Day, to be held Tuesday, Nov. 29, in Halifax.
Demo Day, to start at 5:30 pm at Pier 21, will feature the four graduates from the advanced
NB Names Entrepreneur-in-Residence
In an attempt to change thinking and practices throughout the civil service, the New Brunswick government has named veteran tech entrepreneur David Alston as its first chief entrepreneur-in-residence.
In taking on the volunteer job, the Fredericton
Developing a Sales Culture
As revenue growth accelerates at Atlantic Canada’s startups, something is permeating the community that hasn’t been there before – a sales culture.
More and more frequently, the discussion in the startup community is concentrating on the need to
