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Axem Logs 3 Gains in 1 Weekend

  • Mar 16, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Though most early-stage tech companies are obsessed with landing equity investment, Christopher Friesen and Tony Ingram have just had the type of week that lessens the pressure to raise capital.

On Saturday, the co-founders of Halifax-based startup

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Waterloo’s Landmine Boys Win CBMC

  • Mar 15, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Landmine Boys, a group of University of Waterloo students dedicated to the safe removal of landmines, have won the fifth annual Canada’s Business Model Competition.

The competition, which rewards university teams that have researched their

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WEnTech: SaaS for Green Energy

  • Mar 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

WEnTech Solutions’ increasing traction with customers is a sign of how far the waste-to-energy market has progressed in the past few years.

The Fredericton company has produced software that can assess a proposal to convert waste into energy and

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Sydney Prominent in Propel Cohort

  • Mar 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The next cohort of the Propel ICT tech accelerator will have a distinctly Celtic flavor.

The regional IT accelerator announced today the 23 companies that will participate in the first 12-week program of 2017, and almost one-third of the companies

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Facilities Launch Regional Passport

  • Mar 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Several Atlantic Canadian service providers and co-working spaces have banded together to create a passport program, which allows startups to tap the resources of facilities around the region.

Growing out of the partnership between Planet Hatch in

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Jobs: VOX, EhEye, Dash Hudson

  • Mar 12, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

For our jobs column this week, we’re highlighting a pair of IT jobs in New Brunswick and a pair of postings on the business side at Halifax’s Dash Hudson.

In the Moncton area, VOX Interactif is looking for a web developer, while Saint John-based

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Sales Institute Opens in Montreal

  • Mar 12, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Canada finally has its first university-level sales program – something that Mariner Chairman Gerry Pond has been advocating in Atlantic Canada for several years.

HEC Montréal, a French-language business college in Montreal, announced last week the

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Fostering a New Sales Culture

  • Mar 10, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

At a time when Atlantic Canadian business people are being urged to prioritize sales, Momentum Canada has been founded in Saint John, N.B. to help foster the region’s sales culture.

Momentum’s programs include one that matches people who want to

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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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