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Applicants Invited for Planting Seed$
Young Nova Scotian entrepreneurs with a good idea are invited to apply to this year’s 100 Entrepreneurs Planting Seed$ pitching contest for the chance to win $10,000.
Now in its fourth year, Planting Seed$ sells tickets to 100 people in the startup
Acoubit Wins at COVE Demo Day
Wireless underwater communications company Acoubit was voted most improved startup by its peers in Dartmouth-based Start-Up Yard last week, winning a $1000 Air Canada gift card.
While the gift card will prove useful, Co-Founder Colin Ross said he
First Angel Network Closes Down
First Angel Network is shutting down after 14 years of channeling the money of wealthy investors into Atlantic Canadian startups.
As first reported by Betakit, Co-Founders Ross Finlay and Brian Lowe notified their friends and contacts on Friday
Jobs: Full Stack Developer at CoLab
Our Job of the Week column today showcases an opening for a Full Stack Developer at St. John’s-based CoLab Software.
CoLab helps engineering teams better communicate and manage feedback when designing 3D models with its integrated platform, called
Canum Wins $446K in Breakthru
Canum Nanomaterials, which aims to disrupt the market for fullerenes, is one step closer to financing its pilot facility after it won awards worth $446,000 in the Breakthru competition last night.
The Fredericton company won the top prize at the
The Vantec Model of Angel Funding
One of the country’s most successful angel communities showed its stuff earlier this month as the Vantec Angel Network held its monthly pitching session.
About 150 people – half of them investors – assembled in the VentureLabs offices in downtown
Help Prevent Me From Nagging You!
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I’ve been bothering people lately about filling out our survey, and I’d love to stop. Once you fill out our survey, I promise to leave you alone for the rest of 2019. If enough people complete it, I won’t have to
Canum To Disrupt Fullerene Market
As a graduate student at Rice University in Texas, Felipe Chibante was inspired by his professor Richard Smalley, a co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes.
On Thursday, Chibante and his co-founders in a
Seeberger’s Sensory Friendly Forum
Christel Seeberger dreams of one day overseeing a digital forum that will tell people about sensory friendly places and products.
She’s working toward that goal, and on Thursday night her Saint John-based company Sensory Friendly Solutions will be
App Connects Youth to NS Professionals
The Halifax Partnership is launching Connector+, a web and mobile app for professional networking.
The app provides an online version of the Partnership’s award-winning Connector Program that allows business professionals to match, connect, and
Punch Review Aims to Aid Farmers
Ross Culberson considers himself a problem-solver, and he’s sure his startup Punch Review can solve a big problem for farmers.
Culberson is a sixth-generation farmer himself, overseeing a 340-acre potato operation near Hartland, NB, just north of
VR Training for Hazardous Industries
Better Than Reality asks a simple but important question: How do you train the younger generation to safely participate in high-risk industries?
Its three co-founders believe the answer is virtual reality.
The company has been co-founded by three