Build, Innovacorp Back Dash Hudson

Bolstered by signing major new clients, Halifax-based Dash Hudson has quietly closed a new funding round of more than $2 million to further accelerate its growth.

Dash Hudson, which provides data analytics for corporate clients using Instagram, raised money from the regional venture capital fund Build Ventures, which is backing the company for the first time. Innovacorp, the provincial venture

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Please Help Us with our Annual Survey

Once again, we are launching our annual survey of Atlantic Canadian startups.

We can’t overstate the importance of this survey to our business. This survey helps to demonstrate to decision-makers the importance of the startup community in the economy. And it helps Entrevestor to continue providing news on the East Coast startup community.

We're asking each Atlantic Canadian startup that was

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Dal, UNB Seek Program Participants

Two of the leading university entrepreneurship programs in the region – the Summer Institute at University of New Brunswick and Dalhousie University’s Collide program – are looking for participants.

Dalhousie’s Collide Winter 2017 program is a series of entrepreneurial workshops, pitching and networking events to help individuals launch their ventures. The winter program will have a stronger

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Build Ventures Preps for Fund II

Build Ventures, the regional venture capital fund, is beginning to prepare for its second fund now that it has just over a year to complete the portfolio of its first fund.

The Halifax-based firm launched in 2013 with a $65-million fund, raised from the four Atlantic Provinces, BDC Capital and private investors. Partners Rob Barbara and Patrick Keefe planned to spend five years investing money

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Goggin Talks at Moncton Cybersocial

Peter Goggin, the Co-Founder and Vice-President of Operations at Resson, will speak Wednesday at the Cybersocial in Moncton.

The free event will take place at the Venn Centre on Main Street, starting at 5 pm.  

Goggin and his co-founder Rishin Behl established Fredericton-based Resson four years ago to create software that would assess data from a range of sources on a farm. They developed a

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Bootstrapping Talk at Startup Grind

Startup Grind Halifax has announced that its next event will focus on bootstrapping and will feature Eric Bahn, who spent just $32,000 on a site that he sold for millions.

Led by entrepreneur Oleg Yefymov, Startup Grind brings in speakers for the startup community in the city. Its recent speakers have included the likes of OurCrowd Founder Jonathan Medved (whose talk can be seen here) and

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Fitzgerald Replaces Garrish as CTO

Spring Loaded Technology has named Stephen Fitzgerald as its new Chief Technology Officer, replacing co-founder Bob Garrish, who has stepped down for health reasons.

Armed with more than 25 years of experience in turning technology into products, Fitzgerald will lead the company’s R&D activities and product development. He will continue to bring the company’s innovative concept products to life,

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Jobs: Startup Zone, Dash Hudson

Our first jobs of the week column this year features an interim position leading Charlottetown’s newest incubator, and two openings at IT companies that have been on a hiring binge lately.

The Startup Zone in Charlottetown is looking for an interim CEO while its current boss is on maternity leave. Launched last June, the Startup Zone is the province’s newest business incubator. The interim CEO

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3 Reasons Scaling Beats Launching

Lately I’ve been writing more and more about the larger startups in the region because they have the biggest impact in terms of job creation, revenue growth and attracting capital.

I’ve never summed up in a single column why I believe the focus on the larger companies is so important. But there are metrics that show the biggest impact comes from scaling successful companies rather than starting

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