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Sydney: Our Fastest-Growing Startup Hub

  • Jun 05, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Before Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil unveiled his state of the province address in February, the stage was occupied by a few startups, one of which represented the fastest-growing startup hub in the region.

Colin MacInnis and Brian Best,

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Vizwik Offered Free to 4000 Teachers

  • Jun 04, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Agora Mobile, a New Brunswick software company, is offering all New Brunswick teachers a free premium lifetime membership to its platform Vizwik.

Vizwik is an online platform that allows anyone to create an app and sell it to others on the

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Marcato Enterprise Sparks Sales Gain

  • Jun 04, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

For some of us, summer music festivals bring to mind relaxation and enjoyment. For Darren Gallop, they mean a heavy workload and more revenue for his company, Marcato Digital Solutions.

Based in Sydney, Marcato provides organizational software

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Press Releases: Two from SageCrowd

  • Jun 04, 2015

SageCrowd, the Halifax-based learning science software company, has issued the following two press releases:

SageCrowd Launches Learning sciences white paper

The brain's natural learning cycle

Boston, June 3, 2015 – Learning science software

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Curley, Cowper-Smith in BDC Finals

  • Jun 03, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Phillip Curley of Fredericton-based HotSpot Parking and Christopher Cowper-Smith of Halifax’s Spring Loaded Technology have made the shortlist for the 2015 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award, joining two other Atlantic Canadians as finalists in the

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Spring Loaded Prepares for Liftoff

  • Jun 03, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

After settling on its 15th design iteration, Spring Loaded Technology is finally ready to unleash its “bionic” knee brace on the world.

As it opens its new headquarters and manufacturing facility in Dartmouth this month, the company that grew

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A Banner Year in Financing in 2014

  • Jun 02, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

In many ways, The Rounds exemplified what happened in fundraising by Atlantic Canadian startups last year. It was a record year largely because companies like The Rounds tapped angels and government-owned agencies. 

The Rounds, a Halifax startup

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Entrevestor’s Financing Infographic

  • Jun 02, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

If you want a quick visual presentation of startup financing in 2014, check out our infographic here.

Our artist Roxanna Boers has done a great job capturing in a single image the various nuances of how Atlantic Canadian high-growth companies

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St-Onge Focuses on Ascenta Skin

  • Jun 02, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

The least-noticed part of the Ascenta Health Ltd. exit may be the most interesting: it is the development of a new company around the Ascenta Skin product.

Ascenta Health, whose NutraSea brand of nutritional products are made naturally from

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Techlink Suspends Operations

  • Jun 02, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Sydney-based Techlink Entertainment has suspended operations and laid off about 60 employees.

Techlink’s specialty was producing VLT games that accepted prepaid cards rather than cash with the goal of alerting players when they’d spent a certain

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Xiplinx Goes Home to Move Forward

  • Jun 01, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Things are going so swimmingly at Xiplinx Technologies that CEO Brent MacDonald is going back to where he was three years ago – in the PropelICT accelerator.

Xiplinx, the Saint John company that helps manufacturing plant managers monitor data

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Eye on KW: Women’s Bootcamp

  • Jun 01, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Communitech is looking for applications for its second Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp, or WEB, and has quadrupled the prize pot to entice applicants.

The tech startup hub space in Kitchener-Waterloo will hold the event in the autumn with the aim

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