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Early Companies Shine at Demo Day
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
Briefs: Launch Dal, Volta, Fredericton
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
Aurea Wins Planting Seed$ Competition
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
GoBumpFree Takes Flight
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
Briefs: Propel, Ulrike, Island Advance
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
Jobs: Adams Green, Sentinel Alert
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
CarbonCure Aims To Triple Clients
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
Celebrating Digital Life Sciences
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
Gardner Named Sequence’s Acting CEO
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
Our Latest Quarterly Report Is Out
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
BDC Launches $135M Industrial Fund
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
Briefs: Eyesover, EDN, SimplyCast
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,