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SwiftRadius Spins Out Adeptio
After gestating for 14 months in SwiftRadius Inc.’s innovation incubator, Adeptio Inc., an achievement planning software company, has been launched in Charlottetown, complete with a round of seed funding from private angels.
The cloud-based
Developing A New Breed of Investor
Given that they named the company GoInstant, no one should have been surprised when the founders decided to exit quickly.
Still, we were surprised–I sure was–when the news broke last Monday that the Halifax co-browser company was selling to
2nd Act Opens Silicon Valley Office
Halifax-based 2nd Act Innovations said Wednesday it has opened a sales office in Silicon Valley to be staffed by its new senior vice-president of sales, Chris Strachan.
The company has developed the Ortis4 platform, which helps small and
Livelenz Plans New QSR Data Tools
About a year after launching Livelenz Inc., Joel Doherty ran into an extremely grateful early adopter of the company’s data-analysis technology for quick service restaurant, or QSR, franchisees. This client, an Albertan who used Livelenz at his 11
Launch36: SelectBidder’s Dilemma
Oh, to have Sean Liptay’s problem for a minute.
The co-founder and CEO of Selectbidder expects his vehicle-resale company to be profitable by the end of the year, and must then decide whether to proceed with a seven-figure fundraising, a round
Onboardly Aims to Market Startups
Onboardly Media Inc., a new customer acquisition platform, is launching in Moncton today with the goal of driving clients to venture-backed startups.
Founders Renee Warren and Heather Anne Ritchie kicked off a company that will use a blend of
Intelivote raises $800K, Mulls Sale
Nova Scotia Business Inc. has invested a further $800,000 in Dartmouth e-voting outfit Intelivote Systems Inc., helping the company to enhance its product line, market its services and possibly find a buyer.
The industrial agency said Friday its
Salesforce.com to buy GoInstant
Halifax-based co-browsing startup GoInstant has agreed to sell out to Salesforce.com of San Francisco for more than $70 million, exiting less than a year after raising $1.7 million from a host of mainly Silicon Valley investors.
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OneLobby to Attend SeedCamp NY
For the second time in a year, an Atlantic Canadian company will attend SeedCamp New York, the prestigious tech mentorship gathering in the world’s financial capital.
Jordan Smith, a Halifax entrepreneur whose OneLobby operates a social network
Launch36: Gingle Courts Charities
Erik Gingles describes himself as a “socialist entrepreneur’’ and believes his eponymous SaaS product will make money while helping worthy causes.
Gingle (he dropped the ‘s’ so the name looks a bit like Google) is a mobile live streaming app
Launch36: Fixing Knowledge Bases
Micah Peterson last Tuesday asked potential investors for $500,500 in funding for his customer support software company Twofowzand – $500,000 to help roll out the product, and $500 to take his wife on a trip to Halifax.
The Petersons’ third
Mentorship Becoming Pan-Regional
Tapajyoti Das and his colleagues at LeadSift exemplify the spirit of the Launch36 technology accelerator – maybe more than we realize right now.
The main reason I say this is that LeadSift is a fascinating company, with algorithm-based
