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AioTV Closes its Doors

  • May 29, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

AioTV, an IT company with a significant development team in Halifax, has closed its doors.

The company was founded by Halifax native Michael Earle, a serial entrepreneur who is now based in Denver. The company had operations in both Halifax and

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Halifax Partnership CEO Hanlon Dies

  • May 28, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

We at Entrevestor were deeply saddened Monday to learn of the passing of Ron Hanlon, the President and CEO of the Halifax Partnership. The city’s economic development body announced that Hanlon died Sunday after a brief illness.

Hanlon was a true

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EVV Adds Stepscan to Portfolio

  • May 28, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Prince Edward Island biometrics company Stepscan (formerly known as ViTRAK) has been quietly raising a round of funding with the end goal of $300,000.

The Charlottetown company makes pressure-sensitive floor tiles that help analyse people's gait to

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Nexus wins $30,000 in Indiana

  • May 28, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Nexus Robotics, the Halifax-based startup that is building a robot that can identify and remove weeds, has won $30,000 at an agriculture tech challenge in Rockville, Indiana.

The third annual agBOT challenge took place May 17 to 19.  Nexus was a

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Job of the Week: Harbr

  • May 28, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

A student co-op position at Harbr is the only post in our Jobs of the Week Column today.

Harbr is a Halifax company that developed a mobile app for big construction companies to track data and progress on large projects, improving efficiency over

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AVF Names 12 Presenting Companies

  • May 25, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Venture Forum has announced the dozen companies that will present at this year’s event in Halifax.

The sixth annual AVF, which will take place June 28 and 29 at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel, is a meeting place for Atlantic

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NACO To Host Summit May 28-29

  • May 24, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The National Angel Capital Organization, which represents angel investors from across Canada, is on an offensive to increase investment in Atlantic Canadian startups, and is already working with a few.

NACO earlier this month completed the NACO

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Rise is a winner at NB Power Awards

  • May 24, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Fredericton-based company, Rise, was recognized at the Energy Efficiency Excellence Awards on Wednesday night for its web platform that helps people build energy efficient homes.

Rise received the Innovation Award at the dinner presented by New

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ProcedureFlow On To Fundica Finals

  • May 23, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Daniella Degrace is not resting on her laurels after capturing top prize at the Fundica Roadshow event in Montreal  earlier this month.

The CEO of Saint John-based ProcedureFlow has been on the road, meeting with clients and potential investors.

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Ropeless Traps Could Save Whales

  • May 23, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

One hallmark of Canada's East Coast is the bright, fluorescent buoys that fisherman release across our region’s oceans, freckling the Atlantic shorelines. But the ropes that link the buoys to the lobster and crab traps below are deadly hazards for

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Manning Awards’ Short List Revealed

  • May 23, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation has announced the three Atlantic Canadian companies whose founders are in the running for the $145,000 in cash prizes to be distributed later in the year.

The foundation said this week the Atlantic Canadian

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Greenlaw Returns with Brunvalley

  • May 22, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Having sold his last company Brovada for US$15.2 million in 2015, Karl Greenlaw is back in the startup game with a new fintech company called Brunvalley Cloud Solutions Inc.

The Quispamsis, NB-based company, which plans to use artificial

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