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NBIF’s Breakthru Deadline Tomorrow

  • Dec 08, 2014

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

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New Platform Boosts Leadsift

  • Dec 05, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

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

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Qimple Lures Dream Team of Backers

  • Dec 04, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Robin Hood, Holla! Seek GSB Votes

  • Dec 03, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

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

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The Year of Modest Exits

  • Dec 02, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

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

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G2 Research Bought by Track Group

  • Dec 01, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Details of Track’s Purchase of G2

  • Dec 01, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The following chart shows the details of Track Group's purchase of G2 Research announced today:

Target Company

G2 Research

Headquarters

Dartmouth, N.S.

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Propel’s Entrepreneurs-in-Residence

  • Dec 01, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Press Release: Volta Adds Klugman

  • Dec 01, 2014

Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 27, 2014 - Volta is pleased to announce that Iain Klugman, the President & CEO of Communitech has joined their Board of Directors. As the Halifax startup house prepares to move into the old Library, expanding the

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Gauvin’s Mission to Teach Code

  • Nov 28, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Fuelled by a desire to boost the number of people who can write computer code, Simon Gauvin has created Vizwik.com, a social platform that allows anyone to learn computer coding for free and to create and sell apps that work on any mobile phone

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The Rounds Adds to Seed Funding

  • Nov 27, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The Rounds, the Halifax startup that operates a social network for medical professionals, has added $565,000 in equity investment to its seed round, which it will use to accelerate its rapid growth.

Having launched its closed network for

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A Difficult Year in SR&ED Claims

  • Nov 27, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

One subject that has cropped up increasingly in recent conversations about Atlantic Canada startups is the difficulty many have had this year with the federal government’s Scientific Research and Experimental Development program.

Known as SR&ED

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