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Compilr Revs Up the Revenues
Patrick Hankinson is not a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve, but he does post his business metrics by his door.
Hankinson is a soft-spoken entrepreneurial whiz who runs Compilr, an online development environment that allows users to learn,
We Need Computer Science Reform
Jonathan Robichaud recently completed a private tutorial on writing computer code with Java-Script, and he can’t wait to move on to Python.
In his Java-Script course, he received a full day of lessons from Connor Bell, a Dalhousie computer
JKN Spun Off To Be Private Company
A decade after starting as a research project at Holland College in Charlottetown, the Justice Knowledge Network is being spun off into a for-profit eLearning company called JKN Inc.
Executive Director Sandy Sweet said in an interview yesterday
ABK’s O’Connor Is a Medtech Star
In the midst of interviewing ABK Biomedical's new CEO Pat O’Connor on the Halifax company’s direction, I realized that the story I should write was about O’Connor himself.
Last October, the company announced it had raised $1.25 million in
AIF Backs BioVectra, Island Abbey
Charlottetown drug manufacturer BioVectra Inc. said Tuesday it had received a $3 million funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Atlantic Innovation Fund, which will help to finance a $5 million expansion project for the company.
Build Ventures Eyes 1st Investment
Build Ventures, the new Atlantic Canadian venture capital fund, launched Tuesday with a new name, new headquarters, new co-manager and $48.5 million in committed capital.
And soon it will have its first investment in its portfolio.
“We’re in
Touesnard’s WordPress Data Tool
Brad Touesnard exemplifies a segment of the startup world that is too rarely celebrated — the folks who work on their own or in small groups and soldier on from one venture to another until something works out.
Three weeks ago, the Cape Breton
BioNova Honours Bioimaging Group
There’s been so much going on in East-Coast-Startup-Land recently that it would be difficult to pick out just one good news story of the year. But the folks at BioNova believe they have one. It began with a seeming disaster.
Last week, BioNova,
RTV Seeks $230,000 in Crowdfunding
There’s nothing uncommon about a crowdfunding campaign to raise a few thousand dollars for a good cause, but RTV Group of Saint John is raising the bar with its charitable crowdfunding campaign.
The company, which is trying to battle drunk
Computer Education To Be Rallying Cry
After attending business dinners in Halifax and Fredericton last week, it’s becoming apparent that two themes are developing in the evolution of the regional start-up community.
First, the tech crowd is going to become a pillar of the overall
Solving Farmers’ Pain From Above
Resson Technologies has an idea for fighting crop disease that is so simple that it makes you wonder why no one thought of it before.
I first heard about the company at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s Breakthru Boot Camp in January,
Crowdfunding: Carol Moreira’s Novel
A bit of news: Entrevestor Editor Carol Moreira will release her second Young Adult novel this summer, and we’re inviting all our readers to check out her crowdfunding campaign to pre-order the book and contribute to the project.
Membrane is a
