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ExtremeOcean To Develop Prototype
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
Klugman: Startup Community Is Local
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
Ryan: Backing Regional Community
[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
Picomole’s Superb Trial Results
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
Smart Skin Lands Early Adopter
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
Celtx Doubles Revenue in 3 Months
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
CENE to Launch at Venture Forum
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,
CTA@NYC Aiding Tech Startups
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
Media Spot Me Mulls Move to Halifax
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
Jenkins Pushes Federal Procurement
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
TopLog Seeks Partner to Aid Rollout
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
Celsius Aims High with Drifter
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.,
