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Four NS Winners in Pitch@Palace

  • Mar 27, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Four Nova Scotian startups – Clockk, eOceans Motryx, and Securicy – have won the Atlantic regional Pitch@Palace competition and will proceed to the national finals in Toronto.

The four companies were selected at a pitching competition at Volta on

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East Valley Plots an Active Future

  • Mar 26, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

There’s one angel group in Atlantic Canada that is not shutting down, and Gerry Pond wants everyone to know it has a management team that can take it into the future.

It’s East Valley Ventures, the wing of Saint John-based Mariner that invests in

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Meeting on Women’s Angel Fund

  • Mar 26, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

There’s a movement afoot to establish a women’s angel network in Atlantic Canada, and proponents are inviting anyone who’s interested to an information and planning workshop on April 12.

Tentatively called the Atlantic Women’s Angel Investment Fund

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Introhive Expanding in Saint John

  • Mar 26, 2019
  • Cherise Letson, Huddle

SAINT JOHN– New Brunswick startup Introhive is experiencing faster than expected growth in its new Saint John operation, company executives say.

Last July, the Fredericton headquartered company announced that it was adding 12 new staff to its

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Appili Raises $3.6M, Files Prospectus

  • Mar 25, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

As it moves closer to listing its stock on the TSX Venture Exchange, Appili Therapeutics of Halifax has raised an additional $3.6 million by selling shares and warrants through a private placement.

The drug discovery company issued a statement

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Smart Energy Seeks Pitchers

  • Mar 25, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Smart Energy conference is looking for startups to pitch at its 15th annual conference, which will take place in Halifax on April 15 and 16.

The Smart Energy conference is hosted by the Jameson Group, which also produces the Invest Atlantic

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Applicants Invited for Planting Seed$

  • Mar 25, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Young Nova Scotian entrepreneurs with a good idea are invited to apply to this year’s 100 Entrepreneurs Planting Seed$ pitching contest for the chance to win $10,000.

Now in its fourth year, Planting Seed$ sells tickets to 100 people in the startup

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Acoubit Wins at COVE Demo Day

  • Mar 25, 2019
  • B. Jack Morse

Wireless underwater communications company Acoubit was voted most improved startup by its peers in Dartmouth-based Start-Up Yard last week, winning a $1000 Air Canada gift card.

While the gift card will prove useful, Co-Founder Colin Ross said he

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First Angel Network Closes Down

  • Mar 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

First Angel Network is shutting down after 14 years of channeling the money of wealthy investors into Atlantic Canadian startups.

As first reported by Betakit, Co-Founders Ross Finlay and Brian Lowe notified their friends and contacts on Friday

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Jobs: Full Stack Developer at CoLab

  • Mar 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today showcases an opening for a Full Stack Developer at St. John’s-based CoLab Software.

CoLab helps engineering teams better communicate and manage feedback when designing 3D models with its integrated platform, called

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Canum Wins $446K in Breakthru

  • Mar 21, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Canum Nanomaterials, which aims to disrupt the market for fullerenes, is one step closer to financing its pilot facility after it won awards worth $446,000 in the Breakthru competition last night.

The Fredericton company won the top prize at the

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The Vantec Model of Angel Funding

  • Mar 21, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

One of the country’s most successful angel communities showed its stuff earlier this month as the Vantec Angel Network held its monthly pitching session.

About 150 people – half of them investors – assembled in the VentureLabs offices in downtown

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