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Pineau Crowdfunding for New Site

  • Oct 12, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

A Prince Edward Island web designer is crowdfunding for a digital project he hopes will benefit research into diseases or other charitable causes.

Brad Pineau of Charlottetown has created Coding for Cures, a not-for-profit startup that will

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FAN’s TitanFile Funding Oversubscribed

  • Oct 12, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

TitanFile Inc.’s decision to seek financing from the First Angel Network of Halifax has resulted in an oversubscription of the offering by 86 percent – one of the strongest responses in the history of the angel group.

Dartmouth-based TitanFIle,

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Keefe to Manage Regional VC Fund

  • Oct 11, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic regional venture capital fund will be managed by Patrick Keefe, now the Vice-President of Investment at Innovacorp, and include a $5 million contribution from Technology Venture Corp. of Moncton, the three Maritime Provinces announced

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Karma team launches Dystillr

  • Oct 10, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

In launching their new casual gaming analytics tool dystillr, two Karma Gaming execs have used the technology to unveil some troubling trends at the world’s largest social gaming company, Zynga Inc.


Jay Aird and Duncan Gillis have posted a

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Jevon MacDonald in Progress Magazine

  • Oct 09, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The cover story of this month's Progress is my story on Jevon MacDonald's adventure in Silicon Valley, where he spent months raising his A Round for GoInstant. In the story, MacDonald pooh-poohs the rumours that he hit up existing contacts for

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Changing Lives Via Entrepreneurship

  • Oct 09, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Like so many other people with health issues, singer-songwriter Peggy Gillis found the recovery from illness was an economic struggle as well as a physical toil. That was why she turned to the Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Network, or EDN, for

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NL, Feds Courted for VC Fund

  • Oct 05, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The news Thursday that Prince Edward Island will invest $2.5 million in the Regional Venture Capital Fund is just one of many signs that the fund’s organizers are actively courting more sources of capital.

Three sources familiar with the talks

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EventLift Preps for December Launch

  • Oct 04, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Having bootstrapped for more than a year, Todd Thompson is preparing for a launch late this year of EventLift, an SaaS product that enhances contests by broadcasters or at events.

Based in the Halifax suburb of Hubley, N.S., EventLift simplifies

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DMR Pioneering ‘Bone Glue’ Device

  • Oct 03, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Having raised $700,000 in equity financing, Dartmouth Medical Research is poised to commercialize a “bone glue” apparatus that it hopes to test on cranial procedures in about two years.

The Halifax-based company has licensed two patents from the

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Angels Sink $300K into Scene Sharp

  • Oct 02, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Scene Sharp Technologies Inc., a Fredericton software company that improves the quality of colour digital photography, has closed a $300,000 round of angel financing, which it hopes will help to commercialize a new product for security cameras.

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Pond: We Need Regionalization

  • Oct 02, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

It was appropriate to have breakfast with Gerry Pond on the morning of Invest Atlantic last week, for it was during the same event a year earlier that I first heard him speak about the need for a regional entrepreneurial community.

So, just

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PEI’s ViTrak Aims for March Launch

  • Oct 01, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Having raised more than $2 million in total financing, Charlottetown-based ViTrak is preparing to beta-test its Stepscan footprint analysis technology, which has applications in healthcare, security and sports.

The pre-commercial company is

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