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OMERS, Salesforce VCs Back Leadsift

  • Jun 17, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

With a fresh wad of cash from two leading tech investors, Halifax-based social media-analysis company Leadsift on Tuesday launched its new API to further help companies understand the characteristics and intentions of their customers.

Leadsift

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Propel Cohort Under Way in St. John’s

  • Jun 17, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

One of the greatest recent advances in the startup community in St. John’s is the fact that nine young companies have entered the first PropelICT cohort in the city.

Company formation has been a concern in the country’s most easterly startup

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Mark Evans Nails How to Tell a Story

  • Jun 17, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

When Mark Evans talks about startups telling stories, he doesn’t talk about the founders sitting a client or funder down to tell them the company’s story.

For the Toronto-based communications consultant, the art of storytelling for startups

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HealthQR Partners With Pfizer

  • Jun 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

As it begins to beta-test its app that encourages stricter adherence to drug prescriptions, HealthQR is getting a boost from one of the world’s largest drug companies, Pfizer of New York.

HealthQR, which works out of the Volta startup centre in

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NL Focuses on Startup Launches

  • Jun 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Spring is coming slowly to St. John’s, but that hasn’t stopped new startups from spouting up.

It’s now Startup Week in the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, and there is a strong focus on forming and seeding young companies. Company

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NS, NL Entries Battling in BDC Race

  • Jun 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

A titanic struggle has been playing out on a federal Crown corporation’s website, and the combatants are a pair of thirtysomething entrepreneurs from Atlantic Canada.

For the past two weeks, the federal development bank BDC has been asking the

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UNB To Launch Masters in TME

  • Jun 16, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

The University of New Brunswick will launch its Masters of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship this autumn, which will feature an immigration component unique in Canada.

Dhirendra Shukla, the chair of the Fredericton university’s

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CSIpix Eyes Bigger Sales Team

  • Jun 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

CSIpix is out to solve a problem familiar to all fans of crime fiction: overworked cops waiting days or weeks for fingerprinting results.

The St. John’s startup has developed software that helps forensic investigators quickly find possible

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Eye on KW: Clearpath’s New Segment

  • Jun 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Clearpath Robotics took only 18 months to reach profitability by targeting mainly the research market. Now, as it continues its growth phase, the company is tackling a new market that poses its own set of challenges – the automated handling of

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DSM Wins BioNova Good News Award

  • Jun 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

BioNova, the association for the Nova Scotia life sciences industry, announced last week that its Good News Story for 2015 has been awarded to DSM Nutritional Products for its decision to invest at least $30 million in new capital to upgrade and

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Interview with CBC Cape Breton

  • Jun 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

I was interviewed last week by Information Morning Cape Breton host Steve Sutherland on what I witnessed on my recent trip to Sydney. We discussed the impact of programs like the UIT course and the Spark Cape Breton compeition. You can hear the

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HotSpot, PACTA, Win AVF Honours

  • Jun 12, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

While presenting his company at the Atlantic Venture Forum on Thursday, Phillip Curley announced that HotSpot Parking Inc. would launch later this month in Columbia, South Carolina, and in a new city once every six weeks after that.

The

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