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ExtremeOcean To Develop Prototype

  • Apr 29, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Peter Gifford may have trouble finding a place to launch the working prototype of his new offshore supply vessel, even though it’s only nine metres long.

The problem: it’s 16 metres deep — same height as, for instance, an IMAX screen.

Gifford

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Klugman: Startup Community Is Local

  • Apr 26, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Iain Klugman bristled when I referred to the Atlantic Canadian start-up community in a recent interview. A start-up community, explained the CEO of Kitchener, Ont.-based accelerator Communitech, is a smaller entity than something spanning four

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Ryan: Backing Regional Community

  • Apr 26, 2013
  • Blair J. Ryan

[Editor's note: Blair Ryan, CEO of The Rounds of Halifax, contacted Entrevestor to respond to our article on Iain Klugman’s contention – printed previously on the Progress website -- that a startup community can’t span four provinces.We're

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Picomole’s Superb Trial Results

  • Apr 25, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Moncton-based Picomole Inc., which is developing a breath analysis device that detects cancer, said yesterday its technology has produced preliminary accuracy of 98.5% in independent trials, which it believes makes it a world leader in detecting

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Smart Skin Lands Early Adopter

  • Apr 25, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Smart Skin Technologies of Fredericton has reached an agreement with a major golf club manufacturer to help launch its new Quantifeel product, which tests the pressure points on a golfer’s grip throughout the swing.

Founder and CEO Kumaran

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Celtx Doubles Revenue in 3 Months

  • Apr 24, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

What a difference a year has made for Celtx, the St. John’s-based maker of pre-production software for the film industry.

By coincidence, I recently interviewed CEO Mark Kennedy, one year to the day after my last report on the company appeared

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CENE to Launch at Venture Forum

  • Apr 22, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Canadian Entrepreneurs in New England, a Boston-based group dedicated to helping Canadian tech and biotech companies navigate the New England startup community, will be launched at the Atlantic Venture Forum in Halifax in June.

Critical Path,

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CTA@NYC Aiding Tech Startups

  • Apr 19, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

When Andrew Cherwenka first showed up in New York to market his Toronto-based startup Authintic, he worked out of coffee shops, always on the lookout for a spot with free wi-fi.

Today, he’s working in shared space in the city’s Flatiron district

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Media Spot Me Mulls Move to Halifax

  • Apr 18, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Media Spot Me, a Kitchener, Ont.-based, startup that helps link journalists and experts, is considering a move to Halifax if it can make the economics of such a move work out.

 

The company was started two years ago by former television

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Jenkins Pushes Federal Procurement

  • Apr 17, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

One of Canada’s leading specialists in innovation on Tuesday urged Atlantic Canada’s entrepreneurs to embrace federal government procurement as a means of driving their products to market.

Tom Jenkins, the Executive Chairman of Waterloo-based

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TopLog Seeks Partner to Aid Rollout

  • Apr 16, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

TopLog is three entrepreneurs from three countries who will soon have three doctorates in computer science.  And they have a single mission: to develop a company that makes life easier for network system administrators.

“TopLog turns system data

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Celsius Aims High with Drifter

  • Apr 15, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

When Celsius Game Studios Inc. releases its space-trading game Drifter later this year, it will feature planets or star systems named after five real-life Earthlings, who have paid handsomely for the naming rights.

Based in St. John’s, N.L.,

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