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Jobs: Propel Seeks a New CEO

  • Jul 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Propel ICT, the regional tech accelerator, is searching for a new CEO, which is the highlight of this edition of our Job of the Week column.

Propel is a unique phenomenon – the only tech accelerator in the country that holds cohorts in four

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Jones Highlights IIoT as Opportunity

  • Jun 30, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is still a relatively new field, one ripe for development in a region such as Atlantic Canada, where there are educational and business systems primed to boost entrepreneurship.

This is the belief of Richard

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Side Door Targets Home Concerts

  • Jun 29, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Kicking off an interview about her new music-technology business, Laura Simpson excused herself to text a friend in Los Angeles about an upcoming Janet Jackson concert in someone’s L.A. home.

This is the world that Simpson lives in now — organizing

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GoBumpFree Raises $1M, Launches

  • Jun 29, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Having raised almost $1 million in equity funding, GoBumpFree is now launching its new travel platform for airline employees and retirees.

The Halifax company said in a statement this week it is launching the latest version of its travel platform

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AVF Presenters Tell Stories of Growth

  • Jun 28, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

It’s become a springtime rite in Atlantic Canada. Companies from across Atlantic Canada on Tuesday stood up at the Atlantic Venture Forum to tell investors from across the continent about their success.

Eight companies presented on Tuesday and

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ACOA Grants $772K to Venn

  • Jun 28, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has announced $772,438 in funding for Moncton-based Venn Innovation Inc. to help the facility to continue supporting IT startups in New Brunswick and across Atlantic Canada.

The two-project funding announced

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Swell Lands San Diego Port Funding

  • Jun 27, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax’s Swell Advantage has raised US$100,000 in equity financing from the Port of San Diego, and will help the southern California port develop the technology for a smart marina.

Swell will undertake a one-year pilot project to refine

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Propel Demo Day Features 11 Startups.

  • Jun 27, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

On the fifth anniversary of its first Demo Day, Propel ICT and its community gathered in Halifax last night to witness presentations by another 11 of its graduates.

The Spring 2017 cohort graduated last night, bringing the number of companies to

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Mariner, NBIF Put $500K in Beauceron

  • Jun 26, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Beauceron Security Inc., a Fredericton company that assesses clients’ cybersecurity risks, has raised more than $500,000 in equity funding after signing up 11 clients.

The company announced Monday that it has raised money from Mariner Partners and

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Sverica Buys PEI-based iWave

  • Jun 25, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Charlottetown-based iWave Information Systems Inc. has exited, selling to a California private equity funding after almost three decades as an independent company.

Sverica Capital Management LLC of San Francisco announced last week it had acquired

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Envenio Receives $1.3M in VC Funds

  • Jun 25, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based Envenio has secured investment $1.3 million in venture capital from Celtic House Venture Partners, Green Century Investments and New Brunswick Investment Foundation.

The computational fluid dynamics, or CFD, software developer

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NSHA Lands $2.1M from ACOA

  • Jun 25, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The federal government is providing $2.1 million in funding to the Nova Scotia Health Authority, or NSHA, to assist with the development of five novel radiotherapy technologies.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, which is providing the money

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