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Atlantic Innovation Week Kicks Off

  • Sep 24, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Innovation Week kicked off last night with a range presentations by entrepreneurs, and continues today with MentorCamp Halifax.

DemoCamp was an open forum for entrepreneurs to demonstrate their products to the community. There were no

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AIW: DeCell to Pitch at BioPort

  • Sep 24, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The pain that Paul Gratzer’s startup addresses is all too quantifiable and frightening: every 20 seconds, someone in the world loses a limb because of chronic foot ulcers caused by diabetes.

Gratzer is the founder and chief executive of DeCell

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Observations on Q1’s CVCA Award

  • Sep 23, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

For the second year in a row, a New Brunswick company has won the Deal of the Year Award in venture capital from the CVCA, Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association.

The CVCA announced last week that BDC Venture Capital and New

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AIW: Innovacorp Funds SABRtech

  • Sep 21, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Since winning Innovacorp’s CleanTech Open in April, Mather Carscallen’s SABRTech has landed $250,000 in funding and is working toward opening a pilot scale plant, hopefully in Nova Scotia in 2014.

SABRTech came to public notice in the spring

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AIW: LaunchPark Solves Own Pain

  • Sep 21, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The four co-founders of LaunchPark came together this year to form a company to solve the problem they were facing.

The Halifax-based venture is developing a meeting place for ideas and technical expertise, so that entrepreneurs with great ideas

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Innovation in Nova Scotia Out Today

  • Sep 20, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

We’re proud today to publish INNOVATION IN NOVA SCOTIA, the first in our series of PDF-based supplements that we’re producing under the Entrevestor Intelligence brand.  And we’re delighted to publish it on the same day as we launch our new web

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AIW: NewPace Seeks First Round

  • Sep 19, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

On the cusp of rolling out a new Rich Communications Suite product announced earlier this year, NewPace Technology Development Inc. is seeking its first round of equity funding. 

NewPace specializes in software development for mobile

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AIW: SafeCell’s B2C Phone Service

  • Sep 19, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Ever wish you had a temporary local phone number - one that you could use on Kijiji or a dating site and then dispose of? Sandy Walsh has the technology to make it happen.

Walsh is the founder of SafeCell.ca, a new startup based in Halifax, N.S.

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AIW: Mindful Scientific’s Milestones

  • Sep 18, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Very quietly in the past year or so, Mindful Scientific has been hitting milestones and moving forward with the aim of having a product on the market next year.

The company’s main technology is the Halifax Consciousness Scanner, or HCS, which

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AIW: Weusthem to Fix Tendering

  • Sep 18, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Ashwin Kutty perceives a missing link in the great web of social networks and business tools available today: no one has a solution to navigate the tendering process.

An international consultant based in Halifax, Kutty is now the president and

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Strue to pitch at Invest Atlantic

  • Sep 17, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

You have to admire a tech entrepreneur who has written a book about currency reform and studied sculpture in Chicago. So it’s easy to be impressed by Jordan MacLeod, the CEO of Charlottetown-based Strue Inc. Not only has MacLeod penned New

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350 Capital Invests in CarbonCure

  • Sep 14, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

CarbonCure Technology on Thursday announced that it has secured an undisclosed equity investment from 350 Capital, a Toronto investment company started by real estate developers  to invest in green building products.
The Halifax cleantech

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