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An Immigrant Entrepreneur’s Lessons
The need to develop international sales is a hot topic in the region. Entrepreneurs often need to work hard to win introductions. When Danish-born Pernille Fischer Boulter arrived in Nova Scotia, she wrote letters introducing herself to 100 of the
JEDI launches New Accelerator
The Joint Economic Development Initiative is starting the new cohort of its accelerator for indigenous entrepreneurs today, with a special focus on scaling and exporting.
JEDI, a non-profit that aims to foster Indigenous economic growth, said the
We’re Ramping Up Survey Campaign
We’re about to ramp up our campaign to ask the founders and CEOs of Atlantic Canadian startups to take two minutes to complete our 2017 survey.
We’re working with partners across the region to enhance our annual analysis of the Atlantic Canadian
Proposals for $15M Fund Sought
Innovacorp is calling for proposals from private fund managers to oversee an early-stage venture capital fund – a fund whose value has been boosted by 50 percent.
The Nova Scotia government’s VC agency said last month it would invest $10 million in
Jobs: Dash Hudson, Modest Tree
Dash Hudson has posted an opening for a Sales Development Representative while Modest Tree Media is looking for an Intermediate eLearning Software Developer in our Jobs of the Week column today.
Modest Tree is a Dartmouth-based
Genesis Launches Diversity Program
The Genesis Centre, the venerable startup house in St. John’s, will launch a new diversity program on Monday to offer support to more startups founded by women and immigrants.
Dyanna McCarthy, who has worked for the past four-and-a-half years with
SimplyCast Updates its 360 App
Clients of SimplyCast would have noticed a big change in their SimplyCast360 application yesterday.
The Dartmouth-based company, which aims to simplify and automate communication flows for businesses ranging from startups to enterprises, revealed
SkySquirrel in $3M Raise and Merger
SkySquirrel Technologies, the Bedford, N.S. company that uses aerial imaging to improve vineyard productivity, has raised $3 million and merged with its Northern California research partner VineView Scientific Aerial Imaging.
The new company will
Making Lobster Fishery More Efficient
When Premier Stephen McNeil toured the Volta Labs startup house in Halifax last month, one company that seemed to catch his eye was SeaSmart Technologies, a new oceantech company based in Mahone Bay.
SeaSmart is the sort of company that oceantech
CarbonCure Lands 16 Installations
Halifax-based CarbonCure Technologies, whose technology reduces CO2 emissions in the making of concrete, plans installations in 16 facilities owned by Atlanta-based Thomas Concrete this year.
The Halifax cleantech company said in a statement
LaunchDal Seeks Collide Applicants
LaunchDal, Dalhousie University’s business accelerator program, is taking applications for its Collide Winter 2018 program, which is set to start on Jan. 25.
The program is open to anyone with a business idea and is free.
Participants will attend
Appili To Work on Anti-Bioterror Vaccine
Appili Therapeutics has struck an agreement to work on a vaccine that could protect people against a potential bioterror threat.
The Halifax drug discovery company said Monday it signed a licence agreement with the National Research Council of