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NBIF Building on Radian6 Success
Any year that features a 2,800% gain on an exit would be a pretty good year for a fund manager, but Calvin Milbury believes the Radian6 exit was only one facet of a successful year for the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.
During an hour-long
Ad-Dispatch Spins Off Film Unit
Ad-Dispatch, the Dartmouth-based augmented reality company, will announce today that it is spinning off its audio and video production division into a separate company called Current Studios to ensure better use of its talent and resources.
Celtx Preparing Enterprise Product
Since moving to the cloud a month ago, Celtx has released 14 new products and now the company is gearing up for a couple of more launches – big launches.
St. John's-based Celtx is one of the world’s leading makers of pre-production software for
Startup Kitchen’s Tech Podcasts
Even though he co-founded Startup Kitchen to discuss technology, Suhaim Abdussamad’s favourite podcast is the interview with the operator of a gourmet food truck.
On New Year’s Day, the Fredericton-based video-blogging site broadcast an
SimplyCast’s New Chinese Version
We in the media missed a little item this week, but it merits a bit, maybe quite a bit, of attention: SimplyCast has launched a Chinese version.
The Dartmouth-based company is already a global leader in multi-channel marketing and CEO Saeed
Karma Nears 2nd Round; Eyes 3rd
Karma Gaming, the Halifax startup out to marry regulated lotteries with video games, is on the verge of closing a $750,000 second round of funding and hopes to bring in a third round by September.
Chief Executive Paul Leblanc and Chief
McKenzie Accelerator Angels’ Den
The results of one of New Brunswick’s ambitious accelerator programs will be on display next Wednesday in Moncton as five companies from the McKenzie Accelerator pitch at an Angels’ Den.
Last autumn, two new accelerator programs began in New
Startup Canada Tours the Region
Victoria Lennox’s voice was muffled as she spoke into her cellphone, but the message she was delivering came through loud and clear. After holding a week of town hall meetings with entrepreneurs across Nova Scotia, entrepreneurs and small-business
Making NS an Intelligent Community
It would be wonderful if Nova Scotia were designated an “intelligent community” next year. The fact that the province is beginning the process of seeking the designation should result in economic paybacks, say the campaign’s organizers.
The Birth of a Buyout Fund
The establishment of a buyout fund in Halifax is a nice addition to the growing number of investment groups in the region, and could help with one problem facing the Atlantic Canada – succession in prosperous businesses.
SeaFort Capital Inc.
Breviro, Soricimed win NBIF’s R3
Breviro Caviar Inc. and Soricimed BioPharma Inc. are sharing the top award in the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation R3 Gala’s Innovation Challenge.
The winners will each receive $50,000 worth of research and development services at a New
Med-Tech Firm Impetus Launches
Halifax engineers Tim Burke and Bill Power have formed a new medical technology company in Halifax that is starting not with a grand idea but a new method of developing innovation.
Impetus Innovations doesn’t know yet what its first product will
