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Atlantic Canadian Startup Monthly

  • May 06, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Late last week, Robert Foley and Suhaim Abdussamad from Startup Kitchen posted the second Atlantic Canadian Startup Monthly, in which we discuss what's going on in the community around the region.

We've expanded the panel to include Janice

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Propel’s MacAusland Wins Kira Award

  • May 03, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Trevor MacAusland, the Executive Director of PropelICT, won the Special Recognition Award at the 15th annual KIRA Awards in Fredericton last night in recognition for his success in the developing the Launch36 accelerator.

Under MacAusland’s

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Community Progress in St. John’s

  • May 03, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

The startup community in St. John’s is continuing to move forward this week with the opening of its co-working facility and a partnership with Startup Canada.

The innovation community in St. John’s ranges from 150-member multi-nationals like

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Economy Debate Must Feature Startups

  • May 02, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Jevon MacDonald’s tremendous speech to the Halifax Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday night was the third reminder I had seen in a week that Atlantic Canada needs to develop the technology community.

MacDonald, the chief executive officer and

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Tenants Taking Lead as Volta Opens

  • May 01, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

As Volta opens its doors for the first time this morning, the thing that really pleases its organizers is that they’re no longer the only ones doing the organizing.

That task is being undertaken more and more by the 10 tech startups occupying

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Why We Need A Regional Community

  • Apr 30, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

In the last two years, I’ve sat separately with Iain Klugman and Gerry Pond and listened to their divergent views on developing start-up communities in Atlantic Canada.

Klugman, the CEO of the Communitech accelerator in Kitchener, Ont., said in

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B4Checkin’s Top Line Tripled in 2012

  • Apr 30, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Saar Fabrikant is careful in describing B4Checkin Ltd.’s revenue growth, but he makes it clear that the picture is rosy.

Fabrikant is the president and chief executive officer of the Halifax company, which has developed a suite of cloud-based

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Novawise Lands Funding from FAN

  • Apr 29, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

With its sales increasing rapidly, Halifax startup Novawise Inc. has closed a six-figure funding round from the First Angel Network to finance its international sales effort.

CEO David MacKinnon said Friday that the funding was worth

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ExtremeOcean To Develop Prototype

  • Apr 29, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Peter Gifford may have trouble finding a place to launch the working prototype of his new offshore supply vessel, even though it’s only nine metres long.

The problem: it’s 16 metres deep — same height as, for instance, an IMAX screen.

Gifford

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Klugman: Startup Community Is Local

  • Apr 26, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Iain Klugman bristled when I referred to the Atlantic Canadian start-up community in a recent interview. A start-up community, explained the CEO of Kitchener, Ont.-based accelerator Communitech, is a smaller entity than something spanning four

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Ryan: Backing Regional Community

  • Apr 26, 2013
  • Blair J. Ryan

[Editor's note: Blair Ryan, CEO of The Rounds of Halifax, contacted Entrevestor to respond to our article on Iain Klugman’s contention – printed previously on the Progress website -- that a startup community can’t span four provinces.We're

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Picomole’s Superb Trial Results

  • Apr 25, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Moncton-based Picomole Inc., which is developing a breath analysis device that detects cancer, said yesterday its technology has produced preliminary accuracy of 98.5% in independent trials, which it believes makes it a world leader in detecting

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