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Press Release: Wagepoint Gets $2M
Wagepoint, which has developed a SaaS payroll product, has issued the following press release. The company is a former Volta member, and still has a development team in Nova Scotia.
Wagepoint Announces $2 Million in Seed Funding to Expand US
Orpheus Debuts Sons of Anarchy Game
Halifax mobile game producer Orpheus Interactive will soon release the game version of the wildly popular Sons of Anarchy television series, having reached a deal with Fox Digital Entertainment last year.
Orpheus and Fox issued a statement
What’s Next in Startup Education?
There have been a flood of reminders in the past week of how the region’s universities are developing entrepreneurship programs, each staking out a distinct turf.
Dalhousie and St. Mary’s both held demo-days for student startup teams last
Feds To Give up to $2.9M to Propel
The federal government on Friday placed the dollar amount on its contribution to Propel ICT at as much as $2.9 million over five years.
The government previously said the New Brunswick-based operator of the Launch36 accelerator would receive
NBIF’s Breakthru Deadline Tomorrow
New Brunswickers at the earliest stages of forming a startup have a day left to get their entry into the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s Breakthru competition.
The deadline to get your entry in for the biennial startup competition is 11:59
New Platform Boosts Leadsift
Building a new business is a multi-faceted challenge, something Tukan Das and Sreejata Chatterjee, co-founders of social media analytics company Leadsift, have learned the hard way.
During its first 18 months, Leadsift struggled to hit its
Qimple Lures Dream Team of Backers
The big news about Qimple isn’t merely that it’s closing a $600,000 funding round when it’s barely a year old. It’s the dream team of investors and advisers that the online recruitment company has assembled.
Moncton’s Qimple, which graduated
Robin Hood, Holla! Seek GSB Votes
A couple of Atlantic Canadian startups are looking for your vote in their quest for a global startup award.
Robin Hood and Holla! are winners of recent Startup Weekend events and now they are competing in the Global Startup Battle, in which
The Year of Modest Exits
Tom Gilgan laughed and shook his head. “Oh no,” said the co-founder and CEO of G2 Research of Dartmouth. “We’re not a Radian6. But what we’re happy about is we did this with a company we started from nothing.”
The “this” Gilgan referred to was
G2 Research Bought by Track Group
When the three founders of G2 Research began to look for funding this past summer, they had no idea it would lead to a $4.6 million sale of the company by late November.
Yet Salt Lake City-based Track Group announced today that it paid that
Details of Track’s Purchase of G2
The following chart shows the details of Track Group's purchase of G2 Research announced today:
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Propel’s Entrepreneurs-in-Residence
Propel ICT is looking for a couple of experienced entrepreneurs to serve as entrepreneurs-in-residence in two centres in Atlantic Canada.
The organization that oversees the Launch36 accelerator hopes to have two entrepreneurs-in-residence in
