December 17, 2013

Ensuring Future Success of NS-Grown Business

Pilot Program Addresses Retirement Challenges of Rural Business Owners and Out-Migration of Youth

The Nova Scotia Youth Succession Program was launched on December 17, 2013. The

INTRO: Immunitor receives Grand Challenges Canada funding by the Government of Canada through seed grants. Grants of $100,000 have been given to 83 inventive new ideas for addressing health problems in resource-poor countries. This grant for

When a pair of female tech entrepreneurs calls their new social media product Hashpipe, it’s a safe bet that they tend to think outside the box.

Yet the story of how Julia Rivard-Dexter and Leah Skerry devised and commercialized Hashpipe reveals

Six startups have graduated from the first cohort of the Accelr8 program, marking a landmark in the development of the accelerator course that operates out of the Planet Hatch incubation facility in Fredericton.

The organizers held a graduation

T4G and the New Brunswick Information Technology Council have announced that the second Big Data Congress will be held Feb. 25 in Saint John, and the keynote speaker will be renowned Harvard innovation strategy professor Clayton Christensen.

The

Teenage entrepreneur Raphael Paulin-Daigle is feeling validated after being named one of 10 Future Dragons by CBC’s Future Dragon Fund Contest.

The Grade 12 Moncton student was thrilled to win $5,000 in the contest. The youngster has already

BDC Venture Capital has invested $150,000 each into Eigen Innovations, FoodTender Solutions and TopLog, aiding the funding process of three recent graduates from Moncton-based technology accelerator Launch36.

Halifax-based TopLog has also

Spring Loaded Technology of Halifax has received almost $250,000 of funding from members of the First Angel Network, and is continuing to raise money on its seed round of funding.

CEO Chris Cowper-Smith confirmed this morning that the company

LeadSift, the Halifax company that mines social media for business leads, has announced the launch of its platform to allow small and medium-sized businesses to use its product. The following is the press release the company issued this week:

CarbonCure Technologies, the Halifax cleantech company dedicated to low-carbon concrete products, has closed a $3.5 million Series B financing led by BDC Venture Capital.

The company has been accelerating the sales of its eco-friendly concrete

GrowthWorks Atlantic, the labour-sponsored fund based in Halifax, has made follow-on investments in several of its portfolio companies amounting to more than $2.5 million in recent months.

The fund has benefited from exiting two successful

Sam Bromley of Whitecap Scientific Corp. and Sarah Murphy of Sentinal Alert captured first place at the Pitch101 St. John’s event at Memorial University on Friday, capping off two weeks of events for and by entrepreneurial students in the region.