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Soricimed Wins Orphan Drug Status

  • Mar 15, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Sackville, N.B.-based Soricimed Biopharma Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing peptide-based cancer therapeutics, has won a key regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S.

The company said in a

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PACTA Wins Fundica Roadshow

  • Mar 14, 2016
  • Sabina Wex

PACTA, the Halifax company whose technology helps to manage contracts, won the Atlantic Canadian stop in the Fundica Roadshow on Friday, securing a trip to and office space in Silicon Valley.

The Fundica Roadshow goes across the country, hearing

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Job of the Week: BlueLight Analytics

  • Mar 14, 2016
  • Scott Moreira

This week in Job of the Week, we are featuring a posting from a company involved in dental health: BlueLight Analytics of Halifax is looking for a software developer.

BlueLight specializes in the measurement of the curing light used to harden

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The Millennial Dream to Air March 15

  • Mar 11, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

As the American Dream gives way to the more socially responsible Millennial Dream, this region should work to attract and keep members of the millennial generation, argues Greg Hemmings, founder and CEO of New Brunswick’s Hemmings House Pictures.

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Singolar Enters SAP Startup Program

  • Mar 09, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

By attending a Canadian government program in Silicon Valley, Wolfville-based Singolar has initiated a relationship with one of the world’s biggest enterprise software companies.

Five weeks ago, we wrote that Singolar was heading to Northern

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Velocity: A Unique University Facility

  • Mar 09, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

When Ted Livingston was 23 years old, he had a problem not many people that age face: he had to get rid of $1 million.

Livingston is the Founder and CEO of Kik.com, the high-flying chat service that has almost a quarter-billion registered users. In

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Vesuvius Preps for Gen Con in August

  • Mar 09, 2016
  • Sabina Wex

On a beach in Greece in 2004, Konstantinos Manos and Dimitrios Xanthakis were playing a browser game.

“We can make games 10,000 times better than this one — in a weekend!” Manos said. They laughed it off.

Six years later, the software developer

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Confessions of an Entrepreneur

  • Mar 09, 2016
  • Heather Spidell,

First things first. Small business owners are not so inclined to confess how they are feeling about their own small business ... especially when they are stressed to the point where their jaw feels perpetually locked in one position. Well I have a

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Build Invests $1.9M in Spring Loaded

  • Mar 08, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

A month after launching its successful crowdfunding campaign, Spring Loaded Technology has announced a $1.9 million venture capital investment and a new $1 million contract with the Canadian military.

The Dartmouth company has developed the

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Briefs: Kinduct, Selectbidder, RtTech

  • Mar 08, 2016

Indiana Pacers Adopt Kinduct Platform

Halifax-based startup Kinduct Technologies announced Monday that the Indiana Pacers are its newest high-profile client. The Pacers have partnered with Kinduct as their athlete management software provider to

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LifeRaft Closes $2M Funding Round

  • Mar 07, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based LifeRaft, whose platform uncovers potential threats through social media posts, has closed a $2 million round of financing, including a $1.4 million investment from an unnamed strategic investor from outside the region.

Launched in

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ExVivo Wins $25K CBMC Prize

  • Mar 07, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

ExVivo Labs of the University of Waterloo won the $25,000 first prize at fourth annual Canada’s Business Model Competition at Dalhousie University in Halifax on Saturday.

Co-Founders Christian Brum and Eric Blondeel won the prize for a poised and

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