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Squiggle Park, Tapnbe at Collision

  • Apr 11, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Add two more to the list of Atlantic Canadian companies appearing at the Collision conference in Toronto next month.

Squiggle Park, the Halifax- and Toronto-based startup that helps to teach children to read, and Cape Breton app-maker Tapnbe will

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Three NS Startups Head to Collision

  • Apr 10, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Three Halifax startups have been selected to showcase their businesses at Collision, the Toronto conference that has been called the fastest-growing technology event in North America.

Hosted by the Ireland-based Web Summit group, Collision brings

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Deloitte Opens Fast 50 Applications

  • Apr 10, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Applications are now open for the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, which recognizes the scaling companies in Canada that are increasing their revenue the fastest over a four-year period.

Deloitte Canada this week opened the applications for the annual

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ABK Raises US$30M VC Round

  • Apr 08, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax medical device maker ABK Biomedical Inc. has raised a record-setting US$30 million venture capital round, with which it hopes to bring two products to market.

The Series B round is equal to C$40 million, which is the largest venture capital

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Bulletproof’s Three-City Roadshow

  • Apr 08, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based tech services company Bulletproof Solutions will launch its 2019 Bulletproof Roadshow on Tuesday, a three-city tour focusing on identity and information protection in the cloud.

The company said in a statement the roadshow will

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Fundica Offers Prize of up to $800K

  • Apr 07, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Fundica Roadshow, one of the largest pitching events for Canadian startups, will hold two pitching sessions in the next six weeks that are open to Atlantic Canadian startups.

The overall winner of the Fundica competition could receive an

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NB Mourns Loss of Yves Maillet

  • Apr 07, 2019
  • Inda Intiar, Huddle

There was somberness in the air at the Moncton chamber of commerce luncheon on Monday. The New Brunswick business community had just lost a large presence. Yves Maillet, the Vice-President of Business Growth at Opportunities New Brunswick (ONB),

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Couturier Eyes Role for Startup NB

  • Apr 04, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

If Norm Couturier has his way, Startup New Brunswick will become an umbrella organization for all entrepreneurship in the province, then expand to include the other Atlantic Provinces.

Couturier is a serial entrepreneur who has been through the

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Spring Loaded Hires VP of Sales

  • Apr 04, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Spring Loaded Technology, the Dartmouth company that makes knee braces that add power to the joint, has hired a new Vice-President of Sales based in the U.S.

The company issued a statement Thursday saying it has hired Joe Khalifa, a Washington,

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Vertiball Ready to Ship Next Month

  • Apr 04, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

There are a lot of impressive numbers in the Vertiball story, and perhaps the most impressive is 1,100.

That’s the number of units of its back-massage device that the Fredericton-based company has pre-sold before its official launch.

Vertiball is

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Genesis Takes Over Common Ground

  • Apr 04, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Less than a year after its most recent expansion, St. John’s-based Genesis is growing again by taking over the city’s co-working space, Common Ground Coworking.

Common Ground opened in 2013 on Harvey Road when a group of nine volunteers established

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JEDI Alters Mandate, Mulls Angels

  • Apr 03, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

As it continues to nurture early-stage companies in its incubator, the Joint Economic Development Initiative is working on new and enhanced programs to support First Nations entrepreneurs, even pondering a native-focused angel network.

Based in

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