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ReadyPass Eyes 250 Mid-sized Cities

  • Aug 23, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

A Fredericton startup company is looking at about 250 cities in the U.S. and Canada with populations of less than 150,000 as the target market for its product to improve transit systems.

Alex Kall, CEO of ReadyPass, admits there are other firms

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Job of the Week: Springboard Atlantic

  • Aug 22, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today highlights a position at Springboard Atlantic, the organization that coordinates and promotes commercialization at 19 academic institutions across Atlantic Canada.

Springboard is looking for a Program and

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Act of Radical Generosity, Season Two

  • Aug 19, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

Female entrepreneurs and mentors are invited to prepare for the second year of SheEO’s An Act of Radical Generosity, an initiative that last year raised half a million dollars to fund five female-led Canadian enterprises.

The brainchild of serial

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Innovacorp Looks to Exits for Capital

  • Aug 18, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Nova Scotia venture capital agency Innovacorp has less money left in its main fund than it usually invests in a typical year, and hopes to replenish the fund through exits by existing portfolio companies.

The agency, which is owned by the Nova

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Propel ICT Names Autumn 2016 Cohort

  • Aug 17, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Propel ICT, the East Coast regional accelerator, has announced 38 companies from all four Atlantic Provinces that will go through the Fall 2016 Cohort.

The group has accepted five companies into its Moncton-based Build program, which is designed

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Sustane’s Deal Paves Way for Funding

  • Aug 16, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Peter Vinall emphasized that the announcement in Chester was a key step in a long and complicated process.

“It’s a big milestone for us,” said the CEO and Co-Founder of Sustane Technologies Inc. over his cell phone as he drove away from the event

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Jobs of the Week: RevIQ’s 4 Openings

  • Aug 15, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

RevIQ, the Charlottetown company that helps game-makers boost revenues, is our featured company in Jobs of the Week today with a quartet of postings.

The one-year-old company has been rapidly increasing its workforce and has now posted openings on

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Erin Flood Grows in COO Role

  • Aug 12, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

Three years ago, HotSpot Merchant Solutions was a small Fredericton startup. Today, it’s growing with a major U.S. partner. Erin Flood, the company’s chief operating officer, said growth is driven by prioritizing relationships and communication.

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WellTrack Near Closing $1M Round

  • Aug 11, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

There’s part of the WellTrack story that overshadows its pending $1-million funding, or even its efforts to double revenue every quarter this year.

It’s the tale of how CEO Darren Piercey decided one day that his COO Natasha O’Brien deserved a

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Briefs: Sequence, CarbonCure, Venn

  • Aug 11, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Incubators collaborate to deliver market intelligence

Moncton-based Venn Innovation said Wednesday that market intelligence services will be available to qualifying technology companies across Atlantic Canada through organizations that are part of

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Simms Returns to Genesis as CEO

  • Aug 10, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Michelle Simms has not only returned to the Genesis Centre. She is now running the St. John’s startup incubator.

Simms had worked at the Genesis Centre on the Memorial University campus for 14 years, most recently as Vice-President of Programs and

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NS Should Maintain VC Policy

  • Aug 09, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The closing of Unique Solutions has ignited calls for the Nova Scotia government to get out of the venture capital business. After four companies in the Nova Scotia Business Inc. VC portfolio have failed in 18 months, people on social and

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