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The Farmers’ Truck Rolls into Moncton

  • Jun 23, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

After starting Moncton’s first farmers’ truck to sell local produce last year, Fred Laforge and his co-founder Mathieu Reyjal, are working out of Moncton’s Vennture Garage with the aim of franchising their idea.

The duo set up The Farmers’ Truck to

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AVF Pitchers Highlight Initial Markets

  • Jun 23, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

If there is a theme developing in the pitches we’ve seen this week in Halifax, it is that East Coast startups are finding their paths to an initial market.

In the Propel Demo Day on Tuesday and the first day of the Atlantic Venture Forum on

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Resson’s $14M Round Led by Monsanto

  • Jun 22, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

In a landmark venture capital funding, Fredericton agriculture technology company Resson has raised US$11 million (C$14 million) from Monsanto Growth Ventures and other investors to expand its team and open a Silicon Valley office.

Resson said in a

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Propel To Create New Grow Program

  • Jun 22, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Six companies from the Propel ICT Build Program displayed last night the budding revenue streams that place them in the top tier of the Atlantic Canadian regional accelerator – at least, for now.

Up until now, Propel has been divided into two

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8 Launch Startups Pitch at Demo Day

  • Jun 21, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Eight companies from the Propel ICT Launch program pitched at Demo Day today Tuesday night, seeking in total investment of more than $3 million.

The companies – two from each Atlantic Province -- entered the program at an early stage less four

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Your Guide to Pitchers at Propel, AVF

  • Jun 21, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

In the next three days, 26 Atlantic Canadian startups will pitch publicly in Halifax, and we’d like to help people learn more about them.

The Propel ICT Demo Day at Neptune Theatre tonight, and the Atlantic Venture Forum at the Nova Scotian Westin

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25 Named to Fierce Founders Bootcamp

  • Jun 21, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Communitech has announced the 25 teams that will participate in this summer’s Fierce Founders Bootcamp, an entrepreneurship program for female-led startups.

The founders will complete the first phase of programming at the Communitech Hub July

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VidCruiter Aims to Triple Sales in 2016

  • Jun 20, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Sean Fahey is keeping some impressive company today.

The Founder and CEO of Moncton-based HR software maker VidCruiter is in Washington, D.C., where he is attending the Select USA conference. He’s been meeting with the American ambassador to Canada

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Jobs of the Week: Celtx, KDP, Dynagen

  • Jun 20, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Two sales and/or marketing positions and an opening for a full stack IoT developer headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Our offerings this week are located across the region. In St. John’s, Celtx, which makes software for the film industry,

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Alex Gillis and the Wisdom of Youth

  • Jun 17, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

Young entrepreneur Alex Gillis was keen to share his views on education with the Prime Minister when they met earlier this month.

Gillis was one of eight young Canadians, (Halifax-based Sage Franch was another) to be invited to meet the PM to

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Nature’s Way Applauded by BioNova

  • Jun 17, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

BioNova, the Nova Scotian life sciences industry association, has chosen Nature’s Way’s acquisition of Ascenta Health as its good news story of the past year.

The association last night held its annual Good News and Blues festivity – a chance to

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Qimple Raises $1.1M, Led by NBIF

  • Jun 16, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Moncton-based Qimple, whose software helps companies recruit talent, has raised a $1.1 million round of seed capital from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Toronto-based Green Century Investment.

The funding means the two-year-old

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