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Revolution in Newfoundland Funding
There’s a quiet revolution taking place in seed funding in Newfoundland and Labrador.
When Newfoundland and Labrador Finance Minister Charlene Johnson unveiled in her spring budget that the province would participate in two venture capital
Resson Unveils Deal with McCain
Resson Aerospace, a Fredericton company that uses aerial imaging to improve farm productivity, has signed a multi-year memorandum of understanding with Canada’s largest food producer aimed at improving potato production.
The company unveiled its
Press Release: Oris4’s New Features
Halifax-based Oris4, which has developed a cloud-based document-organization system, has issued the following press release:
Oris4 to unveil latest integration at Salesforce.com event in Toronto
Oris4 will participate in salesforce.com’s
Populus Inks Major Deal in Barbados
Health information company Populus Global Solutions has won an international bid to supply the Government of Barbados with a fully-integrated national electronic health information system – its fourth major contract in the Caribbean-Central
Propel, BioAlliance Win CAIP Funding
PropelICT and the P.E.I. BioAlliance have been awarded five years of funding under the National Research Council’s Canada Accelerator and Incubator Program, or CAIP, which will allow them to expand their programing.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Teaching Youth Art, Entrepreneurship
A strong smell of pizza, along with words like “futurepreneur” and “artpreneur” drift in the air as the first cohort of ArtPreneur 2.0 meet at the Halifax offices of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development, or CEED. This is the
AVF, Launch36 Prove Our Progress
To assess the superb quality of the companies on display in Halifax this week, we should start with Charlottetown drug discovery company Neurodyn, which captured the best growth stage company at the Atlantic Venture Forum.
It’s difficult to
Car Service Uber Comes to Halifax
Uber, a car-for-hire service that’s created controversy across the continent, has come to Halifax.
The San Francisco company announced Wednesday that it has launched its service in Halifax, so a fleet of drivers can now use its app to
Press Release: SHIFT in Vancouver
SHIFT Energy, a Saint John company that is developing automated energy-control systems for large facilities, issued the following press release yesterday with Canucks Sports & Entertainment:
CANUCKS SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT IMPLEMENTS NEW GREENING
Singh Sets Sites on Incubators, Grants
When Paul Singh speaks, it’s usually a good idea to forget the F-bombs and concentrate on the wisdom and candor of the other 60-percent of his speech.
When he returned to the Atlantic Venture Forum yesterday morning, he set the tone for the
Proposify Named to Techvibes 20
On the day it delivered a superb pitch at Atlantic Venture Forum, Halifax-based Proposify was named Tuesday to the Techvibes 20.
Launched in February, the Techvibes 20 is a bi-monthly list of the hottest and most promising tech startups across
Launch36’s Cohort 4 Focuses on Sales
A few hundred startup enthusiasts gathered at Pier 21 in Halifax on Monday evening to graduate the fourth cohort of tech companies from Launch36, the regional startup accelerator.
While the headline story is five more tech companies progressing
