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Jeff Thompson Leaves Serenova

  • Nov 15, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Winter might be moving in, but Jeff Thompson is lacing up his sneakers and hitting the road. One of the region’s most successful serial entrepreneurs, Thompson has recently moved on from his executive role at Contact-Center-as-a-Service (CCaaS)

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Brave New World Dives Into Robotics

  • Nov 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The leap from web design to robotics is a big one, but Mike Rizkalla and his company are making the transition and preparing to bring their first robotics product to the market.  

Rizkalla heads Brave New World, formerly known as Raised Media, a

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Highlights of our Data Report

  • Nov 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

If there’s one piece of data that stands out from our study of the Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2016, it’s the number of companies that are gaining meaningful traction.

Last week, at the Halifax luncheon we co-hosted with Charcoal

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SMU To Host Student VC Competition

  • Nov 13, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Venture Grade, a student-run venture capital fund at St. Mary’s University, has announced its successful bid to host the international Venture Capital Investment Competition.

VCIC is a tri-continental organizationthat hosts competitions at

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UNB Summer Group Seeks Applicants

  • Nov 13, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

The University of New Brunswick’s summer accelerator program—whose alumni include mental-health awareness clothing line Wear Your Label and energy storage solution Stash Energy – has opened applications for its fifth season.  

The Summer Institute

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Pitchers Named for Volta Cohort

  • Nov 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Volta Labs on Tuesday will host a pitching competition to select five startups that will receive a total of $125,000 in early stage investment in the Volta Cohort.

The Halifax startup house will hold the competition at the Discovery Centre

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DeLong Inspired by Kidney Donation

  • Nov 10, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

As she packages orders for her latest Christmas tree ornament—a blended kidney and heart design—Kacy DeLong is simultaneously growing her business, raising funds for kidney research and celebrating her husband’s health-saving transplant.

This is

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Halifax’s Website for Amazon HQ Bid

  • Nov 10, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

The group organizing Halifax’s bid for Amazon’s  second North American headquarters has launched its website, AmazonHFX.com, so anyone can see the rationale for the bid.

The bid pits Halifax against more than 200 other cities, including Canadian

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Entrevestor Study Finds Exits Bring $1.8B, 2,200 jobs to Atlantic Canada

  • Nov 09, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

It’s a little-known fact that IBM’s R&D team for cybersecurity is headquartered in Fredericton — all because of a transformative exit announced in 2011.

IBM that year agreed to buy Q1 Labs, a Waltham, Mass.-based IT startup that had begun in the

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Panel Calls for Continued Growth

  • Nov 09, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Atlantic Canada needs more startups, more immigrants, greater links with hotspots like Toronto and Boston, and more capital from huge tech corporations, the panel at Entrevestor’s luncheon said Wednesday.

The panel of experts applauded the growth

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Modest Tree’s 3-Year Deal with DND

  • Nov 09, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Modest Tree Media Inc., a Halifax SaaS company that offers 3D simulation and training software, has entered a three-year licensing agreement with the Canadian Department of National Defence.

The agreement lets the department use the company’s

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Red Meat Games Expands to Halifax

  • Nov 09, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Red Meat Games, a video game development studio, has expanded its offices into Halifax to develop its new horror-puzzle game, Bring to Light.

“The expansion into Halifax made a lot of sense in terms of financing and talent perspectives,” said Keith

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