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Easy Golf Aligns with Association

  • May 18, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

When Todd Chant was developing his software for golf tournaments, he was worried about the narrow path to market. But he’s come up with a strategy that broadened his path to the width of the friendliest fairway.

Chant is the Co-Founder and CEO of

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Inboundli’s New Home in Halifax

  • May 18, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Gene Sobolev, the CEO of Innovacorp’s newest resident company Inboundli, was torn between three Canadian cities when deciding where to relocate from Berlin, Germany. The Start-Up Visa program put Halifax on top, and Sobolev moved his content

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BDC Lends $140M on East Coast

  • May 17, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Over the last 12 months, Atlantic Canadian businesses, including high-growth ventures like TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture, have received over $140 million in financing from the Business Development Bank of Canada.

The money is part of the bank’s

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5 Teams Split $125K at Volta Cohort

  • May 17, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Volta Labs on Wednesday night awarded $125,000 to five startups – including two from outside the Halifax area – in the second Volta Cohort pitching competition.

Backed by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, BDC Capital and Innovacorp, the

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Highline Relaunches Female Funders

  • May 17, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Highline BETA of Toronto has announced the relaunch of Female Funders Angel Academy, a national program that will help women become angel investors.

Highline, which supports and invests in new ventures, last year bought Female Funders and is now

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Spring Loaded Shows its Impact

  • May 15, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Spring Loaded Technology on Tuesday used a press conference to show what its Levitation knee brace means to the people who use it --especially to users who suffer from osteoarthritis.

The manufacturer held the media event at its Dartmouth

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Sayle Awarded BCIP Contract

  • May 15, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The Halifax company devoted to fostering a culture of safety in the workplace has been awarded a $551,770 contract through the Government of Canada’s Build in Canada Innovation Program.

SayleSafety, a Software-as-a-Service company based in Hammonds

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Cribcut Expands to Toronto

  • May 15, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

When Entrevestor featured Cribcut last spring, founder David Howe was deciding how and where to expand his company, which provides a software-enabled marketplace for mobile hairstylists. Almost a year later, Cribcut is expanding into Toronto.

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CyberSmart 2018 Starts Today

  • May 15, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

CyberNB today will open CyberSmart 2018, a conference that features presentations by cybersecurity experts from around the world.

The conference will develop themes that were brought out at the inaugural  event last year, CyberSmart is the only

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Skyline Rebrands to RetailDeep

  • May 15, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

RetailDeep, the Halifax-startup that used to be known as Skyline, is currently in the running for some big prizes and was shortlisted to the Top 20 at the XRC Labs innovation accelerator in New York City.

XRC runs two cohorts annually and

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Mastering the Art of the Pivot

  • May 13, 2018
  • Katelyn Bougoin

How Dash Hudson launched (and killed) four products in two years and lived to tell the tale.

If you’re an early-stage startup founder, a successful pivot story is much like a modern-day fairytale. It’s got all the right elements—heroism, suspense,

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Dal Seeks $100K Contest Entries

  • May 11, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Applications are open for Dalhousie University’s $100K Competition.

The competition, now in its fifth year, assists teams of early-stage ventures in harnessing their talent, resources, and technological know-how to build high-growth companies.

The

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