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8 Launch Startups Pitch at Demo Day
Eight companies from the Propel ICT Launch program pitched at Demo Day today Tuesday night, seeking in total investment of more than $3 million.
The companies – two from each Atlantic Province -- entered the program at an early stage less four
Your Guide to Pitchers at Propel, AVF
In the next three days, 26 Atlantic Canadian startups will pitch publicly in Halifax, and we’d like to help people learn more about them.
The Propel ICT Demo Day at Neptune Theatre tonight, and the Atlantic Venture Forum at the Nova Scotian Westin
25 Named to Fierce Founders Bootcamp
Communitech has announced the 25 teams that will participate in this summer’s Fierce Founders Bootcamp, an entrepreneurship program for female-led startups.
The founders will complete the first phase of programming at the Communitech Hub July
VidCruiter Aims to Triple Sales in 2016
Sean Fahey is keeping some impressive company today.
The Founder and CEO of Moncton-based HR software maker VidCruiter is in Washington, D.C., where he is attending the Select USA conference. He’s been meeting with the American ambassador to Canada
Jobs of the Week: Celtx, KDP, Dynagen
Two sales and/or marketing positions and an opening for a full stack IoT developer headline our Jobs of the Week column today.
Our offerings this week are located across the region. In St. John’s, Celtx, which makes software for the film industry,
Alex Gillis and the Wisdom of Youth
Young entrepreneur Alex Gillis was keen to share his views on education with the Prime Minister when they met earlier this month.
Gillis was one of eight young Canadians, (Halifax-based Sage Franch was another) to be invited to meet the PM to
Nature’s Way Applauded by BioNova
BioNova, the Nova Scotian life sciences industry association, has chosen Nature’s Way’s acquisition of Ascenta Health as its good news story of the past year.
The association last night held its annual Good News and Blues festivity – a chance to
Qimple Raises $1.1M, Led by NBIF
Moncton-based Qimple, whose software helps companies recruit talent, has raised a $1.1 million round of seed capital from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Toronto-based Green Century Investment.
The funding means the two-year-old
Halifax Startup Group on Facebook
There’s a new social media platform to connect entrepreneurial Haligonians, and it uses that most ubiquitous of all networking sites, Facebook.
St. Mary’s University student Mike Cyr created a group on Facebook called the Halifax Startup Community
Briefs: Sequence, VidSnippets, Volta
Tyler Wish named a Canadian Innovation Leader
Tyler Wish, the co-founder and CEO of St. John’s-based Sequence Bio, has been named one of 10 Innovation Leaders by Navdeep Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development.
Bains
Mariner Grows With Shift Energy Buy
Last autumn, Mariner Partners concluded a sizeable transaction the way it does much of its business – quietly.
The Saint John technology conglomerate works with a host of startups, and one that captured a lot of its attention was Shift Energy, an
1 Week Until Atlantic Venture Forum
The Atlantic Venture Forum, the conference that aims to link Atlantic Canadian startups with investors, has issued a last call to register for the event that starts one week from today in Halifax.
Critical Path Group, which is organizing the event,
