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Equals6 Founders Sell SecureReset

  • Nov 26, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Atlanta’s Courion, which helps identify users online, has paid an undisclosed price to buy Halifax’s SecureReset, which has developed two products for simplifying user passwords and authentication.

SecureReset was owned by the entrepreneurial

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A Case for Founder Thought Leadership

  • Nov 26, 2015
  • Ashley Greene

Whether you’re seeking funding or looking for customers, founder thought leadership is often an untapped tactic for growing your startup. Here’s how to get started painlessly.

Marketing yourself as an authority (or better yet, an influencer)

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Volta Searching for CEO

  • Nov 25, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Volta, the Halifax startup hub, is looking for a new Chief Executive Officer.

Jevon MacDonald, the founder and board member of the facility, said this week that Volta is searching for someone who can oversee the daily operations of the

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Klugman Wins Startup Canada Award

  • Nov 25, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Iain Klugman, the CEO of Communitech, has been awarded the 2015 Startup Canada Award for Entrepreneur Promotion.

Klugman is the driving force behind an organization that is not so much an accelerator as a diversified ecosystem all founded around

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RtTech, Gillis Win National Awards

  • Nov 25, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

RtTech Software of Moncton and 17-year-old Alex Gillis, the CEO of Halifax-based Bitness.io, have won national 2015 Startup Canada Awards.

The Ottawa-based organization announced Tuesday that RtTech, an Industrial Internet of Things company, had

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Smart Skin Aims to Raise $6M-$8M

  • Nov 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

It doesn’t take long in an interview with Kumaran Thillainadarajah to understand why Deloitte named his business, Smart Skin Technologies, to its list of companies to watch in Canada.

In the last two years, the Fredericton firm has installed its

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Voltera Wins 2015 Dyson Award

  • Nov 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Kitchener-based Voltera has won the 2015 James Dyson Award, which recognizes brilliant new products by university graduates.

The team from the University of Waterloo won the award for the Voltera V-One, which prints custom circuit boards using

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Cisco Names Eigen to Global Finals

  • Nov 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Cisco Systems Inc. has named Fredericton-based Eigen Innovations one of six finalists at the Innovation Grand Challenge, the pitching competition at the prestigious Internet of Things World Forum on Dec. 7 in Dubai.

Eigen has developed

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VFC Fellows Dive Into Startups

  • Nov 23, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Emily Miller recently spent a month at the Halifax Central Library curating information on various Maritime and Ontario startups – she really wanted to work in the startup space. A political science major at St. Francis Xavier University, Miller

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Readers Respond to Keefe’s Column

  • Nov 23, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Patrick Keefe’s column on Friday drew big response from readers, both on Entrevestor and social media, and we’d like to share some of the feedback with you.

Keefe, a Partner at Build Ventures in Halifax, wrote a response to the analysis

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4Deep Raises $500K from Bosma

  • Nov 20, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

A subsidiary of Chinese optics manufacturer Guangzhou Bosma Corp. has invested $500,000 in Halifax’s 4-Deep Inwater Imaging, expanding the microscope-maker’s R&D and distribution capacity.

The companies said in a statement today that Bosma USA

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Atlantic Canada Isn’t Always Cheaper

  • Nov 20, 2015
  • Patrick Keefe

One of our unquestioned assumptions when we closed the Build Ventures’ fund in 2013 was that launching a startup in Atlantic Canada was cheaper than doing it in other parts of Canada or the United States. Our location, at least in this respect,

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