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VetHealth Global Set for PEI June 10-12
At least nine startups or organizations working in the area of animal health will attend a MentorCamp affiliated with the VetHealth Global conference in Charlottetown on June 10.
The participants in the one-day mentoring session include two
MentorCamp, MTEI Link with Volta
Volta, the co-working space for startups in downtown Halifax, has yet to complete its first month of operation, but it is already fleshing out its programs and partnerships, which will benefit young companies in the region.
The “startup house”,
Soricimed Tests SOR-C13 in Texas
Sackville, N.B.-based biotech Soricimed Biopharma Inc. has signed a contract to conduct Phase I clinical trials at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, meaning its drug candidate SOR-C13 will be tested at three
GrowthWorks, BDC Back ClearRisk
ClearRisk Inc., the St. John’s SAAS venture that helps mid-level insurance brokers assess risk, has closed a follow-on round of funding from GrowthWorks Atlantic and an arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada to help it continue its rapid
Oris4 Hires Sales VP from Salesforce
Oris4, the Halifax software company that has developed a cloud-based document organization system, has hired Salesforce.com veteran Wade McCallum to lead the company’s sales team.
McCallum had been Salesforce’s vice-president of enterprise
I Cover Kitchener; The Star Covers NB
In the last 24 hours, the largest-circulation newspapers in both Canada and the U.S. have run articles on Canadian tech hubs.
USA Today has printed my story on the tech community in Kitchener-Waterloo. I've already posted a few articles from
Magnet Is All A Startup Should Be
Magnet Forensics is everything a start-up should be.
The company is lean, produce incredibly strong revenue growth and grows by retaining earnings, not seeking investment. But what makes it stand out is that the company’s technology offers a
Progress Loves the Startup Community
The Progress Magazine "People We Love" issue is now on the news stands, and it is rich in material about the startup community.
We'll be featuring more on the issue later, but several prominent people in the startup community made the People
Compilr Revs Up the Revenues
Patrick Hankinson is not a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve, but he does post his business metrics by his door.
Hankinson is a soft-spoken entrepreneurial whiz who runs Compilr, an online development environment that allows users to learn,
We Need Computer Science Reform
Jonathan Robichaud recently completed a private tutorial on writing computer code with Java-Script, and he can’t wait to move on to Python.
In his Java-Script course, he received a full day of lessons from Connor Bell, a Dalhousie computer
JKN Spun Off To Be Private Company
A decade after starting as a research project at Holland College in Charlottetown, the Justice Knowledge Network is being spun off into a for-profit eLearning company called JKN Inc.
Executive Director Sandy Sweet said in an interview yesterday
ABK’s O’Connor Is a Medtech Star
In the midst of interviewing ABK Biomedical's new CEO Pat O’Connor on the Halifax company’s direction, I realized that the story I should write was about O’Connor himself.
Last October, the company announced it had raised $1.25 million in
