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AutoPulse Plans Launch in 2016

  • Mar 03, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

A few months after musing with his father about new technologies for the automotive industry, Sam Jesso is one step away from capturing more than $200,000 in seed funding and services to develop such a product.

Jesso heads AutoPulse, a

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Press Release: Local Prosperity Event

  • Mar 02, 2015

The Centre for Local Prosperity has issued the following press release:

Regional Economics Conference planned for April 2015

(Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia) March 2, 2015.    It is widely known that small rural communities in Atlantic Canada

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Press Release: Next Propel Cohort

  • Mar 02, 2015

Propel ICT, Atlantic Canada’s startup accelerator, has issued the following press release:

Propel ICT Opens Up Applications For Next Round of Startup Programs

Programs Offered for New Startups or Established Early-Stage Companies.

St.

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Venture for Canada Deadline Sunday

  • Feb 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

The final Fellow application deadline for this year's Venture4Canada cohort is March 1st, 2015.  

Venture for Canada is a career accelerator for recent grads, who want to learn how to build a business, while making an impact. 

Fellows join a

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Zed’s Entrepreneurship Education

  • Feb 27, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

After five years of volunteering as a high school entrepreneurship teacher, Robert Zed is working on a new venture of his own, one that will bring entrepreneurship education to many.

Zed, chairman of Triangle Strategies of Halifax, helps a

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A Look at Failures in 2014

  • Feb 26, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Entrevestor recently completed its second survey of Atlantic Canadian startups, and one of the striking figures was the number of companies that vanished in 2014.

Here are the basics. Of the 290 companies we surveyed last year, eight were

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WaitShare Aims at Clinic Wait Times

  • Feb 25, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based VeroSource Solutions, a tech startup that incorporated last year, has launched its first product WaitShare, a free app that aims to inform the public about wait times at walk-in clinics and emergency rooms.

Though several

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Press Release: CBMC Deadline

  • Feb 25, 2015

The Rowe School of Business at Dalhousie University has issued the following press release:

Call for Student Startups: Canada’s Business Model Competition

Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business is hosting Canada’s Business Model

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McRock, NBIF in $3M RtTech Deal

  • Feb 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

RtTech Software, whose state-of-the-art automation helps industrial companies improve manufacturing processes, will announce Tuesday that it has closed a $3-million venture capital round led by the world’s leading industrial Internet of things

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Press Release: Breakthru Finalists

  • Feb 24, 2015

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has issued the following press release:

BREAKTHRU FINALISTS ANNOUNCED!

After months of work for our five finalist teams, the idea of becoming entrepreneurs remains a dream. But three of them will become

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NB BioMatrix Prepares for Q4 Launch

  • Feb 23, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

NB BioMatrix, the New Brunswick cleantech company that won the BioInnovation Challenge last autumn, is developing into a bona fide business by adding staff and planning to launch late this year.

The Saint John company is using nano-technology to

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Pond Offers $500K for Sales School

  • Feb 20, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Gerry Pond has offered $500,000 to any university or other body in Atlantic Canada that establishes an academy to teach international sales.

The Co-Founder of Mariner and East Valley Ventures was the 15th panelist to speak on educational reform

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