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AIW: SafeCell’s B2C Phone Service
Ever wish you had a temporary local phone number - one that you could use on Kijiji or a dating site and then dispose of? Sandy Walsh has the technology to make it happen.
Walsh is the founder of SafeCell.ca, a new startup based in Halifax, N.S.
AIW: Mindful Scientific’s Milestones
Very quietly in the past year or so, Mindful Scientific has been hitting milestones and moving forward with the aim of having a product on the market next year.
The company’s main technology is the Halifax Consciousness Scanner, or HCS, which
AIW: Weusthem to Fix Tendering
Ashwin Kutty perceives a missing link in the great web of social networks and business tools available today: no one has a solution to navigate the tendering process.
An international consultant based in Halifax, Kutty is now the president and
Strue to pitch at Invest Atlantic
You have to admire a tech entrepreneur who has written a book about currency reform and studied sculpture in Chicago. So it’s easy to be impressed by Jordan MacLeod, the CEO of Charlottetown-based Strue Inc. Not only has MacLeod penned New
350 Capital Invests in CarbonCure
CarbonCure Technology on Thursday announced that it has secured an undisclosed equity investment from 350 Capital, a Toronto investment company started by real estate developers to invest in green building products.
The Halifax cleantech
Acoa Loans: Thorasys, DeNovaMed
The federal government on Wednesday lent $1 million to two biotech companies that have grown out of Dalhousie University’s research facilities.
Greg Kerr, Member of Parliament for West Nova, announced that the Atlantic Canada Opportunities
AIW: GoVenture World to Beta-Test
The team from GoVenture World will have five minutes on Sept. 23 to explain a massive project that they have been working on since 2006.
But if Mathew Georghiou and Bill Faulkner can build an online game that could change the face of
AIW: ContractMe Thinking Regional
Laurie Dolhan is fanatical about “buying local”, and she’s gearing up to take that message regional.
Dolhan is the President of ContractMe.ca, a website devoted to linking up local service providers and small businesses with potential clients,
AIW: Boondoc to Help Save Lives
Blair Ryan got the idea for Boondoc, a social network for physicians, when he read of a U.S. doctor unable to extract a reciprocating saw blade from a patient’s hand.
The blade was good and stuck, but rather than give up and amputate the hand,
LightSail Energy Plans NS Project
Cleantech integration company LightSail Canada will soon apply to the Atlantic Innovation Fund to help with financing for a $4.6 million pilot facility to store energy produced at a wind farm near New Glasgow, N.S. LightSail Canada is a
PropelICT Launch36 Seeks Startups
In calling for a new round of startups to enter the Launch36 accelerator program, PropelICT Executive Director Trevor MacAusland released a few interesting statistics .
The 10 startups – nine of them from New Brunswick – that graduated from the
AIW: Progress at Xiplinx, CyberPsyc
Atlantic Innovation Week will be something of an old home week for the companies that went through Propel ICT’s Launch36 accelerator. It will also be a chance for them to learn how they’ve progressed since their term ended in June. In fact we’ll
