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Marcato Eyes Next Fundraising

  • Sep 07, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

Now that it’s secured $500,000 in funding, Marcato Digital Solutions, Inc. is setting its sights on a $2 million fundraising to finance the international roll-out of its administration system for musicians and music festivals.

``We’re pretty

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Compilr Wins a Trip to Seedcamp

  • Sep 02, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

Twenty-three?

I asked the question aloud, and Patrick Hankinson blushed and nodded. At only 23, the Halifax-based serial-entrepreneur has been involved in three startups, two of which are profitable, and just won an international competition for

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Origin Closes Another Round

  • Sep 02, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

An intriguing round of follow-on funding for Halifax consumer health products maker Origin BioMed headlines a bargeful of news in the startup space today.

Origin announced yesterday it has landed $2 million in funding -- $850,000 from Nova

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First Round for TitanFile

  • Aug 31, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

File-sharing enterprise TitanFile Inc. of Halifax on Tuesday secured $250,000 in equity financing from Innovacorp., valuing the company that started last year at more than $2.5 million.

For TitanFile, the all-common-stock funding will add to the

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Invest Atlantic’s Featured Speakers

  • Aug 30, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

We’ve almost completed the list of speakers for Invest Atlantic, which will take place at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax on Sept. 26. We believe we have a superb lineup for all the slots, but there are three plenary sessions that

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Zaptap’s Simard pumped after Grow

  • Aug 25, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

Yan Simard’s Zaptap didn’t make it to the final four companies in the pitching event at the Grow 2011 event in Vancouver this month, but that didn’t mean he was downcast.

Simard is the CEO of the Fredericton startup creating a great deal of buzz

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Return of Invest Atlantic

  • Aug 14, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

I’m thrilled to once again be involved in Invest Atlantic, the only pan-regional conference for investors and entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada. As was the case last year, I have the pleasure – and it really is a pleasure – of lining up the

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Welcome to Entrevestor

  • Aug 13, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

Welcome to Entrevestor, the news and analysis blogging site for the community of investors, entrepreneurs and innovators in Atlantic Canada.
 
Just about every word in that first sentence tells you about our mission at Entrevestor.
 
First of

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