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Battling Cancer, Kevin Stephens Steps Back from Career Cinch
Entrepreneurship is notoriously tough on founders’ health. Kevin Stephens, founder of Career Cinch, is walking a rough path: he’s fighting a rare cancer and has had to withdraw from Halifax’s Volta accelerator, but he’s sharing his struggles on
Bloxo, Clean Catch Shine at Apex
Bloxo and Clean Catch Baits, a pair of enterprises that grew out of Saint Mary’s University, captured two of the top spots at the Apex Business Plan Competition in Fredericton last week.
The two-day competition hosted by the University of New
Scale-Up Hub To Hold Info Sessions
The Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge project is organizing a series of information sessions to highlight the advantages of the program, which helps scaling tech companies grow in the Boston area.
Sessions are now scheduled for Halifax and Moncton next
Side Door Partners with SXSW
Concert venue marketplace Side Door has inked a deal with South by Southwest under which the Halifax company will organize short concert tours for bands participating in the Texas-based music festival.
Side Door matches musical artists with hosts
Please Help Us Help Australia
We’re absolutely thrilled with the response we’ve received to our survey campaign this year, and that we’ve already passed one-quarter of our target for help with Australian wildfire relief.
Last week, we launched our annual survey, which helps us
UNBSJ Opens Uptown MBA Centre
More than 400 people gathered in the old Scotiabank building on King Square in Saint John on Thursday for the official opening of the MBA program that has been relocated uptown from the University of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus in Tucker
5 Winners In Sprint Competition
Innovacorp has awarded a total of $125,000 to five winners of its latest Sprint Competition, which provides development capital to early-stage startups in Nova Scotia.
The Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency on Thursday
NBIF Backs Concrete with $500K
The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has invested $500,000 in Concrete Ventures, the Halifax-based venture capital firm that began investing in early-stage Atlantic Canadian companies last year.
Fredericton-based NBIF said in a statement that it
A Chat with Britain’s Lord Flight
With one eye on the cell phone before him, Lord Flight launched into a promotion of a subject dear to his heart – investment tax credits as a means of encouraging entrepreneurship.
I had come to his home in Westminster to interview him, and he
InspectAR Gets $850K in Funding
St. John’s-based InspectAR Augmented Interfaces Inc., whose technology helps to simplify the production of printed circuit boards, has received an $850,000 investment from two American companies.
The young company, which grew out of the engineering
Remsoft Names 2 New Directors
Fredericton-based Remsoft, which uses data analytics to aid forestry companies, has promoted two executives to director positions to upgrade its data and analytics services and its sales team.
The company announced this week that Marie Eve Fillion
Early-Stage Programs Now Open
Now that we’re well into January, there are programs and funding initiatives for entry-level entrepreneurs opening up around the region.
There is an endless parade of budding entrepreneurs who need to test their ideas in early-stage programs and