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Biofix Wins BioInnovation Challenge

  • Oct 29, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Biofix Medical Technologies, a Halifax company development a bone cement, has won the $45,000 BioInnovation Challenge for 2015.

BioNova, the Nova Scotia Life Sciences association, announced the winners at its annual BioPort Atlantic conference

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Rise Looking Ahead After Propel

  • Oct 29, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

When Matt Daigle learned there wasn’t a tool to help home renovators find the most environmentally friendly products on the market, he decided to build one himself. Thus Rise was launched.

Daigle and his three co-founders are creating an online

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Three BioInnovation Finalists Chosen

  • Oct 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Three Nova Scotian biotech companies will compete today for $45,000 in prizes in the BioInnovation Challenge.

The finalists, selected from a final round of six competitors, are Biofix Medical Technologies, Help Method and RetiCAD.

The fifth

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NBIF Doubles VC Totals in 2 Years

  • Oct 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation invested a record $4.2 million in startups in the 2015 fiscal year, more than twice the figure two years earlier, the not-for-profit agency said in the annual report released Tuesday.

NBIF said it made six

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Comparing Costs With Silicon Valley

  • Oct 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

When Sunil Sharma, managing partner of Extreme Venture Partners in Toronto, attended the Atlantic Venture Forum in Halifax in June, one thing that caught his attention was how “capital efficient” Atlantic Canadian companies are.

In other words,

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Crate’s Launch Exceeds Expectations

  • Oct 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Ross Simmonds, a mainstay of the online marketing community in Halifax, has launched a tool to help individuals and companies find the content they need to reach a broader community.

Best known for his consulting and blogging work, Simmonds

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Linkett To Triple Customers in 2016

  • Oct 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

As it prepares to close a new round of funding, Linkett has set the ambitious goal of tripling the number of its enterprise clients in 2016.

Waterloo- and Toronto-based Linkett is growth-stage company that helps marketers to assess and improve

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With $35M, TRS Plans Implant Lead

  • Oct 26, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Thinking Robot Studios is thinking big.

The Dartmouth 3D printing concern is developing a multi-faceted plant that promises to become a North American leader in the manufacture of medical implants. It has lined up $35 million in financing for

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Aeryon Raises $60M from Summit

  • Oct 26, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Waterloo drone-maker Aeryon Labs Inc. has closed a $60 million funding round from American investment firm Summit Partners, which will help to accelerate the company’s already impressive growth.

Aeryon is one of the world’s leading manufacturers

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B4Checkin’s Sales Surge 70%

  • Oct 23, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

With new products and a recent sales-boosting partnership, B4Checkin, a site that creates hotel reservation systems, is feeling good about the future and crediting its Halifax location with enabling its success.

B4Checkin is the creator of a

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B4Checkin Sales Surge 70%

  • Oct 23, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

With new products and a recent sales-boosting partnership, B4Checkin, a site that creates hotel reservation systems, is feeling good about the future and crediting its Halifax location with enabling its success.

B4Checkin is the creator of a

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Innovacorp Invests $250K in Densitas

  • Oct 23, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax medical device company Densitas has raised $250,000 in venture capital funding from Innovacorp as part of a funding round including private angel investors.

The company will use the funds to finance the launch of its first product, which

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