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HelpMeOrder Expands Into Toronto

  • Aug 22, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

A year after a launching in Atlantic Canada, HelpMeOrder has just expanded its dish-rating service into the Greater Toronto Area, hoping to capture clients in Canada’s culinary capital. 

Based in St. John’s and Mississauga, HelpMeOrder is a

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Should Startups Become B Corps?

  • Aug 20, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

WoodsCamp Technologies seems like a natural candidate to become a B Corp, but its CEO isn’t rushing to gain certification.

The Mahone Bay, N.S., startup has developed an online tool to help manage private woodlots, identifying the inventory of

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The Task of Finding a Co-Founder

  • Aug 18, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Finding the right co-founders to grow a startup is often a challenge. Just ask entrepreneur Randy Campbell, who has launched ShopLaw, an online platform that helps people find a lawyer to meet their needs and budget.

The serial entrepreneur has

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Growing as Social Ventures Increase

  • Aug 17, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

As the social entrepreneurship movement gains momentum, Common Good Solutions of Halifax is keeping pace and growing its business locally and internationally.

The company is dedicated to working with a range of stakeholders to nurture businesses

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PEI Launches Early-Stage Fund

  • Aug 15, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Island Capital Partners, a new $4-million-plus investment fund, has launched to fund startups and add some investment power to the deepening startup ecosystem on Prince Edward Island,.

The new early-stage investment fund will be managed by a

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V4C Partners with McInnes Cooper

  • Aug 15, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Venture for Canada, a not-for-profit organization that recruits, trains and supports recent graduates to work at leading Canadian startups, has announced a partnership with McInnes Cooper.

Through this new partnership, McInnes Cooper will provide

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CarbonCure in California Rail Project

  • Aug 14, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based CarbonCure Technologies has been selected to help produce environmentally friendly construction materials for the California High-Speed Rail project.

The startup issued a press release Sunday saying that it has partnered with Outback

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Jobs of the week: Dash Hudson

  • Aug 14, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Dash Hudson just keeps on hiring.

Today, our Jobs of the Week column is featuring three Dash Hudson openings – for a front-end web developer, sales development representative and an account executive.

Dash Hudson has created a

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Muise Turns Anxiety Battle into Startup

  • Aug 11, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Entrepreneur Joel Muise’s struggles with mental illness motivated him to found his startup, Tranquility Online. Now Muise is seeking participants to test his online service for treating anxiety.

Muise is looking for 48 people who suffer from

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FAN Focuses on Biotech, Follow-Ons

  • Aug 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

As it continues to fund young companies, the First Angel Network has developed an investment niche for the biomedical space and is showing an eagerness for repeat investments.

FAN, as it is known, has been investing in Atlantic Canadian startups

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Easing the Stress of Credit Cards

  • Aug 10, 2017
  • Cherise Letson, Huddle

Credit cards are scary.

Not just when you have a large balance on them, but even the process of choosing one can bring overwhelming confusion to the point where stuffing all your money under a mattress doesn’t seem like such a bad idea after all.

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Pilot Project Aims to Attract Investors

  • Aug 09, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Springboard Atlantic and Invest Atlantic have teamed up to launch a pilot project aimed at bringing more investment to Atlantic Canadian startups.

The two organizations issued a statement on Tuesday saying they hope the pilot project called the

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