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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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Halifax Startup Group on Facebook

  • Jun 16, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

There’s a new social media platform to connect entrepreneurial Haligonians, and it uses that most ubiquitous of all networking sites, Facebook.

St. Mary’s University student Mike Cyr created a group on Facebook called the Halifax Startup Community

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Briefs: Sequence, VidSnippets, Volta

  • Jun 16, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Tyler Wish named a Canadian Innovation Leader

Tyler Wish, the co-founder and CEO of St. John’s-based Sequence Bio, has been named one of 10 Innovation Leaders by Navdeep Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development.

Bains

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Mariner Grows With Shift Energy Buy

  • Jun 15, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Last autumn, Mariner Partners concluded a sizeable transaction the way it does much of its business – quietly.

The Saint John technology conglomerate works with a host of startups, and one that captured a lot of its attention was Shift Energy, an

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1 Week Until Atlantic Venture Forum

  • Jun 15, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Venture Forum, the conference that aims to link Atlantic Canadian startups with investors, has issued a last call to register for the event that starts one week from today in Halifax.

Critical Path Group, which is organizing the event,

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Our Report on Scaling Is Out

  • Jun 14, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

When the Halifax startup Proposify wanted to tell the world how it had grown in 2015, it put out a press release with some pretty gaudy numbers.

Founded by tech entrepreneurs Kevin Springer and Kyle Racki, Proposify had already been going for half

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Kinduct, Affinio Kill It with Pitches

  • Jun 14, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

To appreciate how successfully some Atlantic Canadian startups are scaling, check out these two pitches – one by Kinduct and the other by Affinio – that wrapped up recent West Coast accelerator cohorts.

Travis McDonough, CEO of medical-data

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