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Dinn Brings Propel New Perspective

  • Dec 12, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

After a career spent proving his adaptability, Gary Dinn is now focused on preparing Atlantic Canadian companies for the global market through his role at a regional mentoring group.

Dinn has recently taken over as CEO of Propel-ICT, the group

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Breakthru Prizes Reach $750,000

  • Dec 11, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s current Breakthru competition will be dramatically bigger than the 2013 edition, both in terms of number of participants and total prizes.

The New Brunswick innovation agency announced this morning that

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Expanding Bungalo Moves Into PEI

  • Dec 11, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Bungalo may be the only company working out of the Volta startup hub in Halifax that can legitimately claim expansion into Prince Edward Island is part of an international growth strategy.

The online cottage rental platform did just that this

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Our New Report on the Global Market

  • Dec 10, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Though it was a holiday, Pablo Asiron felt distinctly un-festive.

It was -40 Celsius outside.  He was in a land where he didn’t understand the language, or even the lettering on the street signs. And his dinner that night consisted of a Snickers

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Press Release: Wagepoint Gets $2M

  • Dec 10, 2014

Wagepoint, which has developed a SaaS payroll product,  has issued the following press release. The company is a former Volta member, and still has a development team in Nova Scotia.

Wagepoint Announces $2 Million in Seed Funding to Expand US

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Orpheus Debuts Sons of Anarchy Game

  • Dec 09, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax mobile game producer Orpheus Interactive will soon release the game version of the wildly popular Sons of Anarchy television series, having reached a deal with Fox Digital Entertainment last year.

Orpheus and Fox issued a statement

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What’s Next in Startup Education?

  • Dec 09, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

There have been a flood of reminders in the past week of how the region’s universities are developing entrepreneurship programs, each staking out a distinct turf.  

Dalhousie and St. Mary’s both held demo-days for student startup teams last

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Feds To Give up to $2.9M to Propel

  • Dec 08, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The federal government on Friday placed the dollar amount on its contribution to Propel ICT at as much as $2.9 million over five years.

The government previously said the New Brunswick-based operator of the Launch36 accelerator would receive

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NBIF’s Breakthru Deadline Tomorrow

  • Dec 08, 2014

New Brunswickers at the earliest stages of forming a startup have a day left to get their entry into the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s Breakthru competition.

The deadline to get your entry in for the biennial startup competition is 11:59

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New Platform Boosts Leadsift

  • Dec 05, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Building a new business is a multi-faceted challenge, something Tukan Das and Sreejata Chatterjee, co-founders of social media analytics company Leadsift, have learned the hard way.

During its first 18 months, Leadsift struggled to hit its

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Qimple Lures Dream Team of Backers

  • Dec 04, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The big news about Qimple isn’t merely that it’s closing a $600,000 funding round when it’s barely a year old. It’s the dream team of investors and advisers that the online recruitment company has assembled.

Moncton’s Qimple, which graduated

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Robin Hood, Holla! Seek GSB Votes

  • Dec 03, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

A couple of Atlantic Canadian startups are looking for your vote in their quest for a global startup award.  

Robin Hood and Holla! are winners of recent Startup Weekend events and now they are competing in the Global Startup Battle, in which

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