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Business Model Contest Seeks Entries

  • Jan 05, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Canada’s Business Model Competition, which aims to steer student-led startups away from failure, has opened applications for its sixth annual competition in March.

Dalhousie University, which initiated the event in 2013, is currently accepting

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What’s Ahead in 2018? Funding News

  • Jan 04, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

A look-ahead to the New Year for the Atlantic Canadian startup community draws attention to the financing of our most successful companies. The companies I’m watching this year either raised money in the last couple of years, or could be raising

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Energia Seeks 2018 Cohort Applicants

  • Jan 04, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Energia Ventures, an accelerator in Frederction, is seeking companies in the energy, cleantech and cybersecurity sectors to apply for its 2018 accelerator program. 

The program, which is now accepting applications, will run from April 30 until

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NBIF Extends R3 to 3-Day Event

  • Jan 03, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has unveiled the new format of its biennial R3 event, extending the celebration of New Brunswick research to three days for the first time.

The conference, running from April 10 to 12, will also be the first

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2018 Resolution: Fill Out Survey

  • Jan 03, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Now that we’re into the new year, we’re renewing our call for founders and CEOs of Atlantic Canadian startups to take two minutes to complete our 2017 survey.

This annual exercise is a win-win for the region. The region gets leading-edge data on

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Island AquaTech Preps Prototype

  • Jan 02, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

What started as a class project for the three engineering students at the University of Prince Edward Island is rapidly showing signs of becoming a viable business.

Island AquaTech is the creation of three engineering students who designed a

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Jobs Postings: CoLab, Dash Hudson

  • Jan 02, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Dash Hudson is seeking a Sales Development Representative while CoLab Software needs a new Lead Developer in our Jobs of the Week column today.

Dash Hudson is a software-as-a-service company in Halifax that designed a platform to help companies

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Happiest of Holidays to Our Readers

  • Dec 22, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee, Carol Moreira and Peter Moreira

We'd like take this opportunity to wish all our readers, advertisers, clients and friends the happiest of holidays. We're shutting down until Jan. 2, and are looking forward to a great holiday. We hope all of you have a great break as well. 

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2017 Has Been Great for Entrevestor

  • Dec 22, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Before we take our year-end break, we want to update our clients and readers about our progress in 2017.

It’s been a wonderful year for Entrevestor, and the highlight has been hiring a tremendous young reporter, Jennifer Lee. Jennifer is a graduate

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The Good and The Bad in 2017

  • Dec 22, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

At Entrevestor, we’re about to take our annual Christmas-to-New-Year’s break, so this column will try to sum up what’s been good and bad in the startup ecosystem in the past year. The community grows each year, but here are some high and low points

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Five Named to Export Igniter Cohort 2

  • Dec 22, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Five New Brunswick growth-stage companies will join the second cohort of Ignite Fredericton’s Export Igniter in January to learn how to build a viable export strategy.  

Cleantech, sporting goods and natural beauty products are what some of the

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Zambara Targets Group Benefit Plans

  • Dec 21, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Jason Trask’s journey to San Francisco has followed a long, hard and often personal road, but he hopes it will eventually lead to clients and funding for his fintech startup.

Trask is the founder and CEO of Zambara, a new St. John’s company that

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