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CVCA: Deal Values Triple in 2 Years

  • Mar 09, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Recently published data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association shows just how far Atlantic Canada’s startup community has come in just two years.

And how far it has to go.

The annual statistics published by the

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Bourgoin Shuts Down Squads

  • Mar 08, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Katelyn Bourgoin has announced that Squads is closing its door.

Previously called Vendeve and Swapskis, Squads was a three-year-old company that evolved into a community of female entrepreneurs, offering peer-to-peer mentoring. Originally, Bourgoin

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Calling All Second-Career Entrepreneurs

  • Mar 08, 2017
  • Peter and Carol Moreira

We need to ask a favour.

We’re researching “second-career entrepreneurship”, and are asking for feedback from mature people who are considering launching a business for the first time. We’ve prepared this survey and are asking people who are

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Setting Up a Silicon Valley Outpost

  • Mar 07, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Travis McDonough loves being able to leave his office, jump on his bike and pedal five minutes to Stanford University.

The founder and CEO of Halifax-based Kinduct Technologies moved to the San Francisco area last summer and is now staffing the

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Jobs: HeyOrca, NOCland, CarbonCure

  • Mar 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Our Jobs of the Week column today features a few recent postings in St. John’s and one in Halifax.

NOCLand and HeyOrca are both looking for technical staff for their growing businesses. And CarbonCure Technologies is looking for a Director of

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Planet Hatch Partners with DMZ

  • Mar 05, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Planet Hatch, Fredericton’s flagship business accelerator, has formed a partnership with the DMZ at Ryerson University in Toronto.

The partnership with the DMZ -- formerly known as the Digital Media Zone – allows members from both organizations

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SkySquirrel Enters Dublin Accelerator

  • Mar 03, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

SkySquirrel, the Halifax-area company dedicated to producing agricultural data for the wine industry, has been accepted into the Alltech accelerator for agricultural technology companies in Dublin.

The 15-week program includes a bit of funding plus

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West Newfoundland Community Grows

  • Mar 02, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The entrepreneurship community in Western Newfoundland is taking on a more cohesive structure, with more than 100 members in its Facebook community and a recent pitching competition.

Humber Valley Entrepreneurs is a group of entrepreneurs and

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CarbonCure in $10M Contest in Alberta

  • Mar 02, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

CarbonCure Technologies has announced that it will receive as much as $3 million from Emissions Reduction Alberta, or ERA, to accelerate the adoption of its CO2-utilization technology in Alberta.

The Halifax company also said it will be competing

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NBIF Names 7 Breakthru Finalists

  • Mar 01, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced the seven finalists in the 2017 Breakthru competition – seven from New Brunswick and two in the national category.

NBIF holds its Breakthru competition every second year to find the hottest new

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Simptek Adding More Customers

  • Mar 01, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Fredericton’s SimpTek, a startup that aims to help utilities and customers understand energy usage through data collection, has been boosting sales in recent months.

The company produces software that acts as a bridge between utilities and

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EhEye Transforming Surveillance Video

  • Feb 27, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

James Stewart is a former cop, a specialist in data analytics and one damned persistent entrepreneur.

Having worked on two previous tech startups, he is now back with EhEye, a company that improves the performance and efficiency of surveillance

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