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Submissions for Startup Directory

  • May 06, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

We’re getting ready to close submissions for the Atlantic Canada Startup Directory, but we want to give everyone one last chance to get their submission in.

Below is a list of the companies and organizations that have sent in their information.

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GetGifted Closes $400k Equity Tranche

  • May 05, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

GetGifted, the Charlottetown startup that helps merchants to attract customers, closed a $400,000 tranche of equity financing on Thursday, which it hopes will be the first close in a round totaling $1 million.

The company plans to use the angel

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Profile: Ellen Farrell’s Nomination

  • May 02, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Ellen Farrell was known for teaching and researching entrepreneurship at Halifax’s Saint Mary’s University long before it was fashionable. But the associate professor in management can still be thrilled and surprised: Her nomination for a brand

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Our Survey Drew a Crowd

  • May 02, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Our survey analysis and Bonfire Communications’ tremendous infographic attracted a lot of attention yesterday. So I thought I’d pass on some of it.

We reported yesterday that our survey and research had shown that the startup craze in Atlantic

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Report Highlights Employment Boom

  • May 01, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Startups are becoming a force in the Atlantic Canadian economy, creating about 3,000 direct jobs and increasing employment by about 40 per cent annually.

Those are the main findings of a survey of Atlantic Canadian startups — defined as locally

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The Bonfire Infographic

  • May 01, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

As part of the Entrevestor Intelligence report launched today, we were truly fortunate to work with Bonfire Communications of Saint John on this tremendous infographic.

Artist Lise Hansen was given the task of converting data on the Atlantic

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Atlantic Startup Canada Awards

  • May 01, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

I’d like to thank all of you who tweeted or emailed you congratulations on being recognized by Startup Canada on Wednesday. And I’d like to send out my congratulations to the other winners – just to be named with these people is great honour.

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St. John’s’ Innovation Week Coming Up

  • Apr 30, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

We’re less than a week away from the start of Innovation Week in St. John’s, and I’m really excited to be joining and participating in the events in Newfoundland and Labrador. I’m even hosting one.

StartupNL, which is organizing the city’s first

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Press Release: NBIF Supports Students

  • Apr 30, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation issued the following press release yesterday:

 FREDERICTON, N.B.—The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) today announced $900,000 in funding to support 34 undergraduate and 73 graduate student

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ABK Courts Angels Outside Region

  • Apr 29, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax medical device company ABK Biomedical is raising about $1 million in equity financing to help get its product on the European market in about a year. While it’s secured about half the total from the First Angel Network, or FAN, it’s also

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Help Shape our Mentorship System

  • Apr 29, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

On May 12, you can help to shape the direction of one of the most important components of the East Coast startup ecosystem – Mentorship.

That evening, at the Kingswood golf club in Fredericton, Entrevestor will host a dinner at which we will

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Cellufuel Nears $5M Funding Round

  • Apr 28, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Cellufuel, the company developing a biomass facility at the site of the former Bowater Mersey paper mill, is working hard to finalize a $5 million funding round, half of which is equity investment from private sources.

The Halifax-based company

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