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NACO Summit Set for Thursday

  • Dec 07, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The National Angel Capital Organization, or NACO, will hold its virtual Atlantic Summit on Thursday, and aims to attract not only Atlantic Canadian viewers but also national attendees.

Amber Mac, former co-host of BNN’s App Central and Bloomberg

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Cyber Accelerator To Launch Next Year

  • Dec 03, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

CyberNB Inc. will launch a new accelerator for cybersecurity companies early next year, offering up to 20 companies a year programming, mentorship, and a six-figure funding opportunity.

The New Brunswick group that promotes the cybersecurity

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ClearRisk Named Community Champion

  • Dec 03, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based ClearRisk, which provides risk-management software, has won the 2020 RBC Business Resilience Awards in Newfoundland and Labrador in the Community Champion category.

Competing against a range of Newfoundland and Labrador

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Gaining 10,000 Clients with no VC

  • Dec 02, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

From his base in Truro, N.S., Brad Tousenard has built his IT company Delicious Brains into a global enterprise over seven years with about 10,000 clients in 140 countries and sales increasing each year.

And there are two things about his story

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NL Led Region in Revenue Growth

  • Dec 02, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Even if Verafin did not exist, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup community would have had a really good year in 2019.

Of course, Verafin does exist, and it did raise $515 million in equity and debt in September 2019. Wrapping up our look at

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Pioneering Cluster Employment

  • Dec 01, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

A Halifax human resources firm is pioneering a new service for clients that it calls “cluster employment”, which it hopes will improve working conditions for part-time or gig workers.

Placemaking 4G has launched the service that’s helping workers

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Energia Demo Day on Dec. 16

  • Dec 01, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Energia Ventures will hold a virtual demo day on Dec. 16, featuring the five companies from three countries that are completing its latest three-month cohort.

The program, which began Sept. 30, is part of University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert

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One Winner from Verafin: NL Government

  • Dec 01, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

There’s no shortage of winners from Verafin’s pending sale to Nasdaq, and one of the big ones is the government of Newfoundland and Labrador. The provincial government may haul in $100 million from the deal at a time when it could really use the

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A Look at Recent NB Startup Data

  • Nov 30, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

It would have been difficult for New Brunswick in 2019 to outdo its performance of 2018, especially in terms of funding.

The province in 2018 generated $84.7 million in equity funding, including three investment rounds worth more than $10 million

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Kraken Sense Eyes Move to NS

  • Nov 29, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

As it proceeds through the prestigious IndieBio accelerator, Kraken Sense is also working on moving its headquarters from Mississauga, Ont., to Sydney, Cape Breton.

Kraken has developed a culture-based test that tells food producers and water

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SimplyCast Aids Contact Tracing

  • Nov 29, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

SimplyCast, a Dartmouth-based automated marketing company, has launched a new solution to help businesses offer contact tracing services during the pandemic.

The company issued a statement last week saying the new mobile solution will help small

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3Q VC Funding Rises on East Coast

  • Nov 26, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canadian startups are on track to raise more than $100 million in equity financing this year now that the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association said the region attracted $79 million in venture capital in the first three

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