An intriguing round of follow-on funding for Halifax consumer health products maker Origin BioMed headlines a bargeful of news in the startup space today.

Origin announced yesterday it has landed $2 million in funding -- $850,000 from Nova

File-sharing enterprise TitanFile Inc. of Halifax on Tuesday secured $250,000 in equity financing from Innovacorp., valuing the company that started last year at more than $2.5 million.

For TitanFile, the all-common-stock funding will add to the

We’ve almost completed the list of speakers for Invest Atlantic, which will take place at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax on Sept. 26. We believe we have a superb lineup for all the slots, but there are three plenary sessions that

Yan Simard’s Zaptap didn’t make it to the final four companies in the pitching event at the Grow 2011 event in Vancouver this month, but that didn’t mean he was downcast.

Simard is the CEO of the Fredericton startup creating a great deal of buzz

I’m thrilled to once again be involved in Invest Atlantic, the only pan-regional conference for investors and entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada. As was the case last year, I have the pleasure – and it really is a pleasure – of lining up the

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