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Press Release: CarbonCure & Snyder

  • Sep 03, 2014

CarbonCure Technologies, the Halifax-based maker of green building materials, has issued the following press release:

Snyder and CarbonCure connect on sustainability

Snyder to offer green concrete products to the Ohio region

August 28, 2014

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Press Release: SimplyCast Q2 Growth

  • Sep 03, 2014

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth-based multi-channel marketing startup, has issued the following press release:

SimplyCast Continues to Achieve Triple Digit Growth in Q2

SimplyCast has experienced triple digit customer growth in Q1 and Q2 for

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SkySquirrel to Launch Farm Product

  • Sep 02, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

A year after it pivoted away from a search and rescue product, SkySquirrel Technologies is launching a drone-based product that can help farmers improve growing conditions.

Based in Inverness on Cape Breton Island, the company has always been

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New Time for St. John’s Event

  • Sep 02, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The time of the Entrevestor-Entrepreneurs’ Forum event to be held in St. John’s on Sept. 11 has been changed to mid-day due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict.

The Entrevestor-EF Luncheon will now begin at 11 am at the Common Room at Gushue

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Four Launch36 Grads Get BDC Notes

  • Aug 22, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

As it announced ambitious organizational changes, PropelICT revealed Thursday that four startups that went through Cohort 4 of its Launch36 accelerator have received $150,000 convertible notes from BDC Venture Capital.

Propel held its annual

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After 2 Exits, Thompson Heads Propel

  • Aug 22, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Having founded and successfully exited two tech startups by the time he was 43, Fredericton native Jeff Thompson brings a lot of street cred and star quality to his new role as chairman and president of regional startup support group, Propel ICT.

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Entrevestor on Holiday Next Week

  • Aug 22, 2014

Entrevestor will take its annual summer holiday next week and will not be covering news until after Labour Day. 

We will return as usual on Sept. 2. 

We hope all our readers have a happy and safe long weekend. 

Peter and Carol Moreira. 

 

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GetGoing Gets Going at Bootcamp

  • Aug 21, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Starting this week, a new Halifax startup is taking part in a boot camp for women in technology at Waterloo, Ont.-based Communitech, the country’s premiere startup lab.

GetGoing hopes to use its time in the Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp to get

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BioPort Now a More Regional Event

  • Aug 20, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

BioPort Atlantic, the annual conference for the East Coast life sciences industry, is moving closer to being a truly regional event as it is now being promoted by organizations in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

BioNova, the

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Gillis, 15, Brings Bitness to Market

  • Aug 19, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

While most of the teens at the Shad Valley tech and entrepreneurship camp in July focused on their science projects, Alex Gillis might have been a bit distracted by the business he’d started two months before.

He is now launching the business,

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Press Release: FoodTender Launch

  • Aug 19, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

FoodTender, the Shediac, N.B.-based online ordering system for restaurants, issued the following press release today:

FoodTender Launches Free Online Ordering Service In Major Technology Advance for Restaurants and Foodservice Suppliers

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Pitch 101 To Be Held Tuesday

  • Aug 18, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Entrepreneurs’ Forum will host a Pitch 101 competition Tuesday, August 19, at 12:30 pm at the Innovacorp offices at 1344 Summer St., Halifax.

Pitch 101 is an initiative launched by Bob Williamson of Invest Atlantic to encourage students and

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