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FoodTender Spins Out Food Profit

  • May 19, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Sticking with the restaurant business he knows so well, Andre LeBlanc has formed a subsidiary of FoodTender that helps eateries assess the true cost of the meals they prepare and ensure they are profitable.

The Food Profit Group, which is based in

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Canadian VC Has Record 1st Quarter

  • May 18, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Canadian venture capital investments hit a record in the first quarter of 2016, with Atlantic Canada holding its own in early investments but missing out on the late-stage deals that drove the market.

Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity

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Rev Accelerator Names Cohort 4

  • May 18, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Communitech has unveiled the fourth cohort of its Rev accelerator, with five companies being welcomed into the sales-focused program.

The six-month accelerator takes in companies with some traction and teaches them to ramp up their sales with

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Goalline Bought by Blue Star Sports

  • May 17, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Goalline, the Halifax company that provides websites to youth sports leagues, has been bought Blue Star Sports for an undisclosed price, and together they plan to develop an integrated technology platform for minor sports.

Though no terms were

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CarbonCure Lands $1.75M in Funding

  • May 17, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

CarbonCure Technologies, which makes green construction materials, has received an additional $1.75 million investment from Vancouver-based Pangaea Ventures, increasing the company’s valuation.

Founder and CEO Robert Niven said in an interview that

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Impact Movement Will Miss O’Leary

  • May 17, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Kristy O’Leary is leaving Nova Scotia, and her departure means more than the loss of another talented Bluenoser.

A few years ago, O’Leary co-founded Scout & Burrow, a Halifax consulting firm dedicated to helping businesses improve their social and

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Valley Startups Open KW Offices

  • May 16, 2016
  • Sabina Wex

As the summer begins, many companies have begun to train interns and co-op students. Companies often need to teach these young people technical skills and how to act appropriately in the workplace because they never learned these skills in school.

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Job of the Week: HeyOrca!

  • May 16, 2016
  • Scott Moreira

Our Job of the Week feature today is highlighting a business-oriented position in St. John’s with the developer of a social media marketing solution, HeyOrca!

HeyOrca! helps marketing agencies working with multiple brands develop social media

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Tracking Entrepreneurs’ Mental Illness

  • May 13, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

With mental health problems among entrepreneurs even greater than among the general population, a new study is asking founders to fill in a survey with the aim of creating solutions.

The Mindset Project is the work of Halifax-based Michael

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Corner Brook Hosts Startup Weekend

  • May 12, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Something interesting happened in the startup world in April that deserves more attention than it received: a Startup Weekend was held April 1 to 3 in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

It was the first Startup Weekend in the western Newfoundland

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Ending Dog Days of Contract Searches

  • May 12, 2016
  • Sabina Wex

Fifty-six seconds after I sent a contract to rufus@beagle.ai, I got an email back telling me it contained 27 liability clauses, 259 responsibility clauses and eight termination clauses.

Rufus, by the way, is the artificially intelligent dog at

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Reno Sub-Systems Lands US$14M

  • May 11, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Reno Sub-Systems Inc. has received US$14 million (C$18.1 million) in a Series B funding round led by strategic investor MKS Instruments Inc. of Andover, Mass.

Reno, which has developed new and disruptive technologies for the semiconductor and

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