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Our Data Shows How NL Is Advancing on Two Fronts.

  • Dec 18, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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CEED, BoomersPlus in Mentoring Programs

  • Dec 18, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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My Cape Breton Wish List for 2020

  • Dec 16, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Manifold’s New Sales Strategy

  • Dec 16, 2019
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Job of the Week: Dash Hudson

  • Dec 16, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Enginuity Targets Hardware Makers

  • Dec 12, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Rally Closes $750K Funding Round

  • Dec 11, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Applications Open for Sprint Contest

  • Dec 11, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Clever Fruit Eyes 1st Product in 2020

  • Dec 11, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Creatros in Beta Test, Eyes 1st Raise

  • Dec 09, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Wattpad To Open Halifax Office

  • Dec 09, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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”

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Volta Names Four New Directors

  • Dec 08, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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