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Call for Regional Equity Tax Credits

  • May 28, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The quarterly Herald Magazine came out yesterday, and its theme is a favourite of mine -- innovation. My column in the publication calls for a regional equity tax credit. I argue that ETCs are a proven means of channeling capital into innovative

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FAN Readies for NACO Summit

  • May 25, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The recent news has not all been good for the First Angel Network, but Director and Co-Founder Ross Finlay is focusing on the positive, especially his chance to once again host the National Angel Capital Organization, or NACO, Summit in October.

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Smart Skin Closes Funding Round

  • May 23, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Smart Skin Technologies, the Fredericton company commercializing a thin material that relays information to a computer when it senses pressure, has closed a round of funding from a group of blue-chip New Brunswick investors.

Though he declined

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Regional VC Fund Near Endgame?

  • May 22, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Just as they used to say in an old TV commercial for Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale, the people putting together the regional venture capital fund are taking the time to get it right.

Of all the accusations that may be hurled against the

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Impressive Metrics in ONC Deal

  • May 18, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The $540 million exit of Dartmouth-based Ocean Nutrition has taught us three things: Ocean Nutrition is a really good company; Atlantic Canada has a good ecosystem for young companies; and the knowledge economy in the region has matured in just

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TitanFile 2nd in National Competition

  • May 17, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

TitanFile Inc. is a young company with a mighty full trophy cabinet.

The Dartmouth enterprise on Tuesday was named runner-up in the Alpha Exchange Innovation Campaign Live Pitch-Off Competition at the OCE Discovery 2012 show in Toronto.

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Headspace Inches Toward Products

  • May 15, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

With the launch of its new Extrify product, Halifax website-design firm Headspace is taking another step closer to being predominantly a software company.

On Monday, the company headed by Kyle Racki and Kevin Springer launched extrify.com, an

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Pond-Deshpande Plans Year 1

  • May 14, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Could there be a more auspicious time to unveil the program for the Pond-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of New Brunswick?

Doubt it.

New Brunswick is still basking in the glow of the Radian6 and Q1 Labs

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STI Seeks $5M-$10M Up-Round

  • May 11, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Now that its only VC backer has converted its debt to equity, Halifax-based STI Technologies Ltd. Is embarking on a fundraising campaign it hopes will raise $5 million to $10 million in follow on funding this year.

The company formerly called

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RtTech Raises $750K; NBIF Leads

  • May 10, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Six months into its existence, RtTech Software of Riverview, N.B., has raised $750,000 in equity financing and is just about breaking even.

The company – whose software helps companies become more efficient with energy and their machinery –

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LeadSift Gears Up for Demo, Launch

  • May 10, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Tapajyoti Das has put his Masters degree in computer science on hold so that he can focus all his (considerable) energy on the demo and launch of his young lead-generation company, LeadSift.

LeadSift can scan the tweets of people in a geographic

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ScreenScape Planning New Displays

  • May 09, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

After growing 250 percent in each of the last three years, Charlottetown-based ScreenScape Networks is planning a major change this year on the presentation of its public video screens.

ScreenScape provides software that allows companies and

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