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Startup Directory Deadline Coming
You have a few days left to get your company’s contact details into the Atlantic Canada Startup Directory, and we’re looking for more submissions.
More than 100 startups have submitted their names, which is a good start. But we’re looking for
Profile: Pelley Brings Spark to CB
In 2006, Bob Pelley developed and piloted Innovacorp’s I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition, which began in Cape Breton and spread provincewide, fostering some of Nova Scotia’s most promising startups. Now, Pelley has got behind Spark Cape Breton
Not Business as Usual Playing Monday
Haligonians are invited to view a free documentary called Not Business As Usual that stresses the need for entrepreneurs to be agents for social good and redefine business. Organizers of the screening say the documentary recently played to a
NB, NS Seek Crowdfunding Feedback
The prospects are excellent that equity-based crowdfunding will soon be allowed in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, but first securities regulators are looking for feedback on new rules for the online fundraising.
Clarification on the Startup Directory
As the entries are coming in for the Atlantic Canada Startup Directory, it’s becoming clear we at Entrevestor have to differentiate between this directory as opposed to the databank we assembled earlier in the year.
What we are now seeking is
Innovacorp, Angels Back The Rounds
The Rounds, a social network for medical professionals, has raised a $1 million seed round, including a $250,000 investment from the Nova Scotia investment agency, Innvoacorp.
The Halifax-based company, which works out of the Volta startup
Wesley: A Call for A Design Culture
Almost everything we experience in life has some kind of design. Determining if it is good or not is complicated. Where one object or process may function well under one set of conditions, it may fail under another. From a business standpoint,
Equals6 Survey on Students’ Plans
A student recruitment survey from Equals6 has revealed interesting views from the Millennial Generation, including that 91 per cent of respondents would relocate for a new job, that 42 per cent seek professional mentorship and that just 13 per
SwiftRadius’s New Innovation Division
SwiftRadius, the Fredericton-based IT consulting firm, is launching a new initiative to help large North American companies develop innovation.
The company has struck a partnership with Forth Innovation, a Dutch business consultancy, to roll out
Press Release: Cloud-A’s ‘Bricks’
Cloud-A, a Halifax provider of cloud delivery solutions, released the following press release:
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada – April 16th, 2014, Cloud-A, a Canadian leader in cloud delivery solutions for high performance software applications,
Entrevestor Dinner Set for Fredericton
The first Entrevestor Dinner will be held in the Fredericton area May 12, and we hope it will offer members of the startup community a chance to plan lasting improvements to the regional startup ecosystem.
Held with the assistance of the New
Profile: Marc Mansour Ascending
After 14 years in startup wilderness, Halifax biotech company Immunovaccine (IMV) and its Chief Operating Officer Dr. Marc Mansour are exactly where they need to be. With data from clinical trials demonstrating the effectiveness of the IMV
