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Starting Lean at CEED

  • Sep 12, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development is rolling out new programs on lean startup methodology for aspiring entrepreneurs.

CEED, a provincial business support and growth centre, is wrapping up its first installment of Fit to

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PEI Sees Benefits of Rounding out its Ecosystem

  • Sep 12, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Maybe it’s not a coincidence that the lone Atlantic Canadian company named to the Canadian Innovation Exchange this year is from the smallest province.

Maybe – or should we say probably – it’s the result of a methodical, multi-year strategy to

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Venture Grade Invests in Trip Ninja

  • Sep 11, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Saint Mary’s University's Venture Grade Fund made its first investment this week, contributing $15,000 to Trip Ninja, a startup for travel-planning. The investment was announced on Tuesday, at Volta Labs’ new event space in the Maritime Centre in

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Beauceron Join London Accelerator

  • Sep 11, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Beauceron Security, a Fredericton company that measures clients’ cybersecurity risks, has been named to the Cyber London accelerator program in the U.K.

Known as CyLon, the accelerator hosts cybersecurity startups from around the world, offering

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BDC Warns of Labour Shortage

  • Sep 11, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Half of the small to medium-sized businesses in Atlantic Canada have trouble finding the employees they need, says a new study released by the Business Development Bank of Canada.

The national study found that half of the SME owners the bank

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Woodland: Inspiring Health Innovation at MUN

  • Sep 10, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship at Memorial University has a new Entrepreneur-in-Residence to encourage its students to pursue their ideas in the med-tech or health innovation sectors.

Mandy Woodland’s official title is Health Innovation

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Sona Moves Planned Listing to CSE

  • Sep 10, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Sona Nanotech is planning to have its share trading publicly within a month – but on the Canadian Securities Exchange rather than the TSX Venture exchange.

Last month, the company posted a notice on its website providing an update on

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Ashored, GIT in Oceans Competition

  • Sep 07, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Two Halifax companies have been accepted into an ocean-tech competition in Savannah, Ga., where they will compete for one of two US$100,000 prizes.

Ashored Innovations and Graphite Innovations and Technology will present at the eighth annual Ocean

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NS Social Enterprise Group in Australian Partnership

  • Sep 07, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Common Good Solutions, a consulting firm that fosters the social enterprise movement, is behind an expansion that sees its Social Enterprise Institute (SEI) partnering with the Australian Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship (ACRE) to

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Squiggle Park Joins Rev Accelerator

  • Sep 07, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Squiggle Park, the Halifax- and Toronto-based startup that helps teach children to read, has been accepted into the Rev accelerator, the sales-focused mentoring program offered at Kitchener, Ont.-based Communitech.

The company, which received

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How the Ocean Supercluster Will Spark New Companies.

  • Sep 06, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

During the Ocean Supercluster roadshow this summer, Matt Hebb made a throw-away statement that lingered with me, because it so elegantly described the role of startups in the Supercluster.

Hebb is CEO of the Supercluster, the four-province

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Six Teams Join Energia’s Cohort 2

  • Sep 04, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Energia Ventures, the University of New Brunswick’s cleantech accelerator, launched its second cohort on Tuesday, welcoming six teams from across Canada and the U.S.

The UNB Technology Management and Entrepreneurship program launched Energia about

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