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The Vantec Model of Angel Funding
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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Canum To Disrupt Fullerene Market
As a graduate student at Rice University in Texas, Felipe Chibante was inspired by his professor Richard Smalley, a co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes.
On Thursday, Chibante and his co-founders in a
Seeberger’s Sensory Friendly Forum
Christel Seeberger dreams of one day overseeing a digital forum that will tell people about sensory friendly places and products.
She’s working toward that goal, and on Thursday night her Saint John-based company Sensory Friendly Solutions will be
App Connects Youth to NS Professionals
The Halifax Partnership is launching Connector+, a web and mobile app for professional networking.
The app provides an online version of the Partnership’s award-winning Connector Program that allows business professionals to match, connect, and
Punch Review Aims to Aid Farmers
Ross Culberson considers himself a problem-solver, and he’s sure his startup Punch Review can solve a big problem for farmers.
Culberson is a sixth-generation farmer himself, overseeing a 340-acre potato operation near Hartland, NB, just north of
VR Training for Hazardous Industries
Better Than Reality asks a simple but important question: How do you train the younger generation to safely participate in high-risk industries?
Its three co-founders believe the answer is virtual reality.
The company has been co-founded by three
Eadie’s Glaucoma Testing Device
When Brennan Eadie, an ophthalmologist from Vancouver, moved to Nova Scotia from the other side of the country, he wasn’t expecting to stay.
Eadie travelled out east for a one-year fellowship program to study glaucoma. But when he learned that
A Tool To Measure Impact Investing
Fredericton has long been a hub of social innovation, and now a trio of female entrepreneurs hope the city will become a centre for measuring impact investing.
R I D D L, a finalist for the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s Breakthru
Genesis Launches Micro Fund
St. John’s-based Genesis has initiated a $775,000 micro fund that will provide initial financing to about 38 companies over the next three years.
Genesis announced this week that the Genesis Micro Fund will provide grants of up to $20,000 to each
B4checkin Books a Lake Tahoe Sale
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe said Thursday it will be the first casino in the Lake Tahoe area to install b4easypost, the credit card authorization payment and posting platform developed by Halifax’s b4checkin.
The hotel said in a statement
Regional Universities Excel in VC Contest
Students from Wolfville’s Acadia University won an undergraduate venture capital contest at a recent event, with a team from Mount Allison in Sackville, New Brunswick, taking second. Teams from other regional schools also won accolades.
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