Tributes Pour in for Gerry Pond
The investor and ecosystem builder passed away last week.
On Friday, we began collecting tributes to the late Gerry Pond, the investor and former Chair of Mariner Partners, with the hopes of presenting them on a single page.
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Remembering Gerry Pond
I first saw Gerry Pond in action on Feb. 19, 2015, at a post-secondary education conference hosted by the Association of Atlantic Universities.
I’d met Gerry before. In fact, I was lucky enough to chat with him often over the last fifteen years,
East Coast Startups Win $325K at Startupfest
Three Atlantic Canadian startups walked away with $325,000 – more than one-third of the prize money on offer – at Startupfest in Montreal last week.
AgroGene Solutions of Moncton, Finleaf Technologies of Brooklyn, NS, and 3dBioFibR of Halifax all
Gerry Pond Passes Away
Gerry Pond, the former telecom executive who championed the startup movement in Atlantic Canada, passed away peacefully on Wednesday. He was 82 years old.
A former CEO of New Brunswick Telecom, Pond was the driving force behind the startup movement
MTME: Next To Be Held Thursday
Four enterprises will be on display Thursday when the J. Herbert Smith Centre hosts MTME: NEXT, the demo day for the Master of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship program at UNB.
The two-hour event will allow the latest cohort of MTME
East Coast Innovation Raises $550K+
East Coast Innovation Inc. has raised more than $550,000 so far in its first institutional financing round, as the company gains traction with its fish-loading technology for the global salmon farming industry.
