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Smart Skin Aims to Raise $6M-$8M

  • Nov 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

It doesn’t take long in an interview with Kumaran Thillainadarajah to understand why Deloitte named his business, Smart Skin Technologies, to its list of companies to watch in Canada.

In the last two years, the Fredericton firm has installed its

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Voltera Wins 2015 Dyson Award

  • Nov 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Kitchener-based Voltera has won the 2015 James Dyson Award, which recognizes brilliant new products by university graduates.

The team from the University of Waterloo won the award for the Voltera V-One, which prints custom circuit boards using

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Cisco Names Eigen to Global Finals

  • Nov 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Cisco Systems Inc. has named Fredericton-based Eigen Innovations one of six finalists at the Innovation Grand Challenge, the pitching competition at the prestigious Internet of Things World Forum on Dec. 7 in Dubai.

Eigen has developed

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VFC Fellows Dive Into Startups

  • Nov 23, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Emily Miller recently spent a month at the Halifax Central Library curating information on various Maritime and Ontario startups – she really wanted to work in the startup space. A political science major at St. Francis Xavier University, Miller

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Readers Respond to Keefe’s Column

  • Nov 23, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Patrick Keefe’s column on Friday drew big response from readers, both on Entrevestor and social media, and we’d like to share some of the feedback with you.

Keefe, a Partner at Build Ventures in Halifax, wrote a response to the analysis

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4Deep Raises $500K from Bosma

  • Nov 20, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

A subsidiary of Chinese optics manufacturer Guangzhou Bosma Corp. has invested $500,000 in Halifax’s 4-Deep Inwater Imaging, expanding the microscope-maker’s R&D and distribution capacity.

The companies said in a statement today that Bosma USA

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Atlantic Canada Isn’t Always Cheaper

  • Nov 20, 2015
  • Patrick Keefe

One of our unquestioned assumptions when we closed the Build Ventures’ fund in 2013 was that launching a startup in Atlantic Canada was cheaper than doing it in other parts of Canada or the United States. Our location, at least in this respect,

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5 Great Tips on Crowdfunding

  • Nov 19, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Many in the packed house at the FullSail conference in Fredericton on Wednesday very quickly learned that their preconceptions about crowdfunding were mistaken.

The conference on crowdfunding, organized by the Financial and Consumer Services

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Innovacorp VC Funding hits $5.9M

  • Nov 19, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp, Nova Scotia’s provincial innovation agency, invested a total of $5.9 million in 14 companies in the fiscal year ended March 31, including a previously unannounced $1 million funding of Halifax-based QRA Corp.

The data are contained

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Tallyfi Targets Expansion Beyond KW

  • Nov 17, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Tallyfi, one of the four companies recently admitted to Communitech’s Rev accelerator, has pioneered the 21st Century equivalent of the bouncer’s counter.

The Kitchener-based company is dedicated to helping bar staffs keep track of traffic in

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Septic Sitter Eyes IIoT Applications

  • Nov 17, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

When Freescale Semiconductor put together its Internet of Tomorrow Tour last year, it included an exhibit on a little-known piece of Atlantic Canadian technology many of us would prefer stayed underground.

Based in Austin, Texas and valued at

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Press Release: SimplyCast in Finals

  • Nov 17, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth multi-channel marketing company, has issued the following press release:

SimplyCast is a Finalist for Three Awards

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, November 17, 2015 – SimplyCast, a global leader in marketing automation, is

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