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Launch36: SelectBidder’s Dilemma

  • Jul 10, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Oh, to have Sean Liptay’s problem for a minute.

The co-founder and CEO of Selectbidder expects his vehicle-resale company to be profitable by the end of the year, and must then decide whether to proceed with a seven-figure fundraising, a round

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Onboardly Aims to Market Startups

  • Jul 10, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

 Onboardly Media Inc., a new customer acquisition platform, is launching in Moncton today with the goal of driving clients to venture-backed startups.

Founders Renee Warren and Heather Anne Ritchie kicked off a company that will use a blend of

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Intelivote raises $800K, Mulls Sale

  • Jul 09, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Nova Scotia Business Inc. has invested a further $800,000 in Dartmouth e-voting outfit Intelivote Systems Inc., helping the company to enhance its product line, market its services and possibly find a buyer.

The industrial agency said Friday its

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Salesforce.com to buy GoInstant

  • Jul 09, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based co-browsing startup GoInstant has agreed to sell out to Salesforce.com of San Francisco for more than $70 million, exiting less than a year after raising $1.7 million from a host of mainly Silicon Valley investors.

A person

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OneLobby to Attend SeedCamp NY

  • Jul 06, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

For the second time in a year, an Atlantic Canadian company will attend SeedCamp New York, the prestigious tech mentorship gathering in the world’s financial capital.

Jordan Smith, a Halifax entrepreneur whose OneLobby operates a social network

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Launch36: Gingle Courts Charities

  • Jul 06, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Erik Gingles describes himself as a “socialist entrepreneur’’ and believes his eponymous SaaS product will make money while helping worthy causes.

Gingle (he dropped the ‘s’ so the name looks a bit like Google) is a mobile live streaming app

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Launch36: Fixing Knowledge Bases

  • Jul 05, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Micah Peterson last Tuesday asked potential investors for $500,500 in funding for his customer support software company Twofowzand – $500,000 to help roll out the product, and $500 to take his wife on a trip to Halifax.

The Petersons’ third

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Mentorship Becoming Pan-Regional

  • Jul 05, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Tapajyoti Das and his colleagues at LeadSift exemplify the spirit of the Launch36 technology accelerator – maybe more than we realize right now.

The main reason I say this is that LeadSift is a fascinating company, with algorithm-based

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Launch36:GoLead’s Stellar Pipeine

  • Jul 03, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Last Tuesday was a pretty good day for Paula Morand: she got to present her company at the Launch36 Demo Day and found out she had been named the New Brunswick Female Entrepreneur of the Year for 2012.

The reason for all the excitement is that

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Launch36: Pond, NBIF Back Tabture

  • Jun 29, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

As it prepares to roll out its collaboration software, Tabture has already received investment commitments totaling $100,000 from Mariner Partners Chairman Gerry Pond and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

The commitments are part of a

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Launch36: Probing Online Groups

  • Jun 28, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Tribeonomics Inc. is trying to combat a problem posed by anonymity on the internet.

Companies and governments are often battered across the social media spectrum because a nameless, faceless online mob opposes what they are trying to do.  And

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Launch36: Xiplinx’s Early Adopters

  • Jun 28, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

One night a few months ago, a flurry of tweets flew out of New Brunswick congratulating Xiplinx, one of the companies going through the Launch36 accelerator, in landing a really impressive client as an early adopter.

I hadn’t heard of Xiplinx at

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