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Our Data Shows How NL Is Advancing on Two Fronts.
There have been two main trends in the Newfoundland and Labrador startup community in recent years – the flood of new companies, and the accelerating advance of its most successful ventures.
This is rare. Some communities do a great job of
CEED, BoomersPlus in Mentoring Programs
The Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development and BoomersPlus.com have teamed up to develop a network of mentors to support the startup ecosystem in Nova Scotia.
CEED and BoomersPlus issued a press release Tuesday saying they’re now
My Cape Breton Wish List for 2020
My wish-list for the Cape Breton startup community in 2020 (or shortly thereafter) is short and sweet – 1. a university computer science program, and 2. an angel group.
These points came up in the discussion after I delivered Entrevestor’s startup
Manifold’s New Sales Strategy
For cloud-computing startup Manifold, a new business model is offering a path to faster growth.
Manifold’s online platform gives tech companies the ability to purchase software for their computer programmers, track how much money is being spent on
Job of the Week: Dash Hudson
Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Performance Marketing Strategist at Dash Hudson in Halifax.
Halifax-based Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their
Enginuity Targets Hardware Makers
It was bad luck for Enginuity that it scheduled its Robotics and Automation Day on Nov. 28, the day an early snowstorm made travel to its Spryfield headquarters a bit tricky.
But the Halifax-based engineering and design company had provoked enough
Rally Closes $750K Funding Round
St. John’s-based legal-tech company Rally has raised $750,000 in equity funding, with which it plans to expand its development and sales teams.
The company on Wednesday held a press conference at the Emera Innovation Exchange in St. John’s to
Applications Open for Sprint Contest
Applications have opened for Innovacorp’s Sprint competition, which awards a total of $100,000 to early-stage innovation-driven startups in Nova Scotia.
The applications are open until midnight Jan. 6 and can be found here. Winners will be notified
Clever Fruit Eyes 1st Product in 2020
Nova Scotia’s Clever Fruit Products has developed a new berry-based food ingredient that can reduce cholesterol by as much ads 40 percent, and the company hopes to have a product in the market within a year.
Having started as a juice maker three
Creatros in Beta Test, Eyes 1st Raise
With its digital product being beta-tested by two companies, the troika that heads St. John’s-based Creatros Technologies is turning its attention to its first fundraising effort and a full launch in 2021.
The company came together three year ago
Wattpad To Open Halifax Office
Toronto-based Wattpad said Monday it will open an office in Halifax, beginning in 2020 with a team based at Volta, the city’s innovation hub.
The press release on the Wattpad website said the East Coast operation would be its “second headquarters”
Volta Names Four New Directors
Volta, Canada’s East Coast Innovation Hub, has named four new members to its board of directors.
The board provides direction and leadership in carrying out Volta’s goal of building a community in which entrepreneurs can come together to learn from