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Lootbag Aims to Build Up User Base

  • Feb 18, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Daniel Code-McNeil is looking for 10,000 Haligonians who want free stuff.

Code-McNeil is a co-founder of Antigonish-based Lootbag, one of the finalists in the recent I-3 Technology Startup Competition. The company is developing a data-driven app

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Press Release: Adler at Starting Point

  • Feb 18, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The Starting Point Entrepreneurship Conference, which is now under way at the Sobey School of Business at St. Mary’s University, has released the following press release:                        

Joey Adler to Address Starting Point

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Propel Names 38 Startups to Cohort

  • Feb 17, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Canadian accelerator Propel ICT on Wednesday named the companies that will join its most recent cohort, including a full slate of P.E.I. startups and its first member from Cape Breton.

In naming the 38 companies to its first cohort of

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Bridgit Sets Its Sites on the U.S.

  • Feb 17, 2016
  • Rose Behar

The construction industry is often considered slow at adopting change but Kitchener-based startup Bridgit has broken ground quickly with its mobile application Closeout, a tool that simplifies communication on construction sites.

“We heard a lot

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JEDI Sets Up Aboriginal Accelerator

  • Feb 17, 2016
  • Sabina Wex

A new accelerator for aboriginal entrepreneurs has been established in New Brunswick, and it’s already witnessing great progress from the five teams enrolled in it.

The inaugural Aboriginal Business Accelerator is operated by the Joint Economic

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Bains Unveils Innovation Funding

  • Feb 17, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The federal government has announced $14 million in funding for a new institution in Charlottetown that will encourage the commercialization of products developed from natural substances.

Federal Innovation, Science and Economic Development

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Our Quarterly Report on KW is Out

  • Feb 15, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

We’re extremely proud today to publish our first quarterly Entrevestor Intelligence report on the Waterloo Region, which highlights the need for KW and Toronto to develop Canada’s Tech Supercity.

This report is now on our site, and printed copies

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Shooting for a Toronto-KW Supercity

  • Feb 15, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The backdrop said as much as the beaming man standing alone on the stage.

The man was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He wore no jacket, just a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up and the top button undone. He was casual and friendly and

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Clean Simple Lands $575K in Equity

  • Feb 15, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

After a dramatic change in its business model last autumn, Halifax-based Clean Simple has raised $575,000 in equity funding, becoming the first Atlantic Canadian portfolio company of the venture capital fund Highline.

Clean Simple licenses software

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Jobs of the Week: Proposify, HeyOrca

  • Feb 15, 2016
  • Scott Moreira

This week in Jobs of the Week we are featuring two positions located in Halifax, from Proposify and Gracenote, and one opportunity from St. John’s-based Software-as-a-Service company HeyOrca.

Proposify is a Halifax-based SaaS company, and creators

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Sortable Aims for 10X Growth

  • Feb 12, 2016
  • Rose Behar

Sortable, an automated ad optimization service, has revealed that its network of publishers has grown to 200, reaching about 130 million unique viewers in January.

The startup uses machine learning to automatically fill a site’s ad space with

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Simms Gets Boost from OneStart

  • Feb 12, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

A Halifax-based team that’s developing a treatment for a rare childhood blindness is hoping an international accelerator will help them get their technology to the global market.

Members of a research team based at Dalhousie University, have made

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