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OMERS, Salesforce VCs Back Leadsift
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
Propel Cohort Under Way in St. John’s
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
Mark Evans Nails How to Tell a Story
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
HealthQR Partners With Pfizer
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
NL Focuses on Startup Launches
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
NS, NL Entries Battling in BDC Race
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
UNB To Launch Masters in TME
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
CSIpix Eyes Bigger Sales Team
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
Eye on KW: Clearpath’s New Segment
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
DSM Wins BioNova Good News Award
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
Interview with CBC Cape Breton
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
HotSpot, PACTA, Win AVF Honours
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
