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Early Companies Shine at Demo Day

  • Nov 30, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Propel ICT held its second Demo Day of 2016 in Halifax last night, in a show that featured strong performances from the early stage presenters.

Seven of the 11 presenting companies at the packed event were from the Launch Program, which guides new

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Briefs: Launch Dal, Volta, Fredericton

  • Nov 30, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Launch Dal Pitching Event on Thursday

Launch Dal will hold the final pitch competition for the 12 teams in its Starting Lean program Thursday starting at 4:30 pm.

After more than two months of workshops, coaching and networking events, the

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Aurea Wins Planting Seed$ Competition

  • Nov 29, 2016
  • Peter and Carol Moreira

Aurea, a new cleantech company founded by Cat Adalay, won the second annual 100 Entrepreneurs: Planting Seed$ competition in Halifax on Monday, capturing the first prize of $10,000.

The company is dedicated to producing modular, low-maintenance

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GoBumpFree Takes Flight

  • Nov 29, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

An ambitious Halifax startup that aims to make it easier for the world’s 1.7 million airline employees to take vacations, will be one of the pitchers at the Propel ICT Demo Day on tonight.

Danna Lavallee, an airline industry veteran, will present

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Briefs: Propel, Ulrike, Island Advance

  • Nov 28, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Kitchen to Livestream Propel Demo Day

Anyone who can’t attend the Propel ICT Demo Day in Halifax on Tuesday will be able to see it live online.

Our friends at Startup Kitchen will be livestreaming the event here.

Propel last week named

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Jobs: Adams Green, Sentinel Alert

  • Nov 28, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Openings for sales people and customer engagement reps across the region highlight our Jobs of the Week column today.

Dash Hudson of Halifax is looking for a sales development representative and a customer success representative. Dash Hudson helps

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CarbonCure Aims To Triple Clients

  • Nov 25, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

So much is happening at CarbonCure Technologies these days that the best way to illustrate the Dartmouth cleantech company’s progress is to zero in on its customer and revenue growth.

We could highlight that CEO Robert Niven was one of four winners

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Celebrating Digital Life Sciences

  • Nov 24, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

There’s an industrial segment in which Atlantic Canada excels. The companies in this space have raised more than $30 million in 2016 alone. They are establishing offices in Silicon Valley. They’re gaining worldwide clientele.

The segment is the

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Gardner Named Sequence’s Acting CEO

  • Nov 24, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Chris Gardner has been named the acting CEO of St. John’s-based Sequence Bio, taking over from the company’s first CEO, Tyler Wish.

The company released a statement Wednesday saying that Gardner had assumed the position, and spokeswoman Karen

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Our Latest Quarterly Report Is Out

  • Nov 24, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Today we’re launching our fourth Entrevestor Intelligence report of 2016.

The cover story is something that I’ve been talking about lot lately in conversation: the intersection of information technology and life sciences. It’s an ill-defined

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BDC Launches $135M Industrial Fund

  • Nov 23, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

BDC Capital today unveiled a new $135 million venture capital fund to support Canadian energy, industrial and cleantech start-ups with global potential.

The BDC Capital Industrial, Clean and Energy Technology Venture Fund II will follow on the

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Briefs: Eyesover, EDN, SimplyCast

  • Nov 23, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Eyesover Releases Issue Discovery Module

Fredericton-based Eyesover Technologies Inc. has released its new Issue Discovery module as the latest addition to its online media monitoring system.

Using Eyesover’s proprietary artificial intelligence,

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