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Comparing Costs With Silicon Valley

  • Oct 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

When Sunil Sharma, managing partner of Extreme Venture Partners in Toronto, attended the Atlantic Venture Forum in Halifax in June, one thing that caught his attention was how “capital efficient” Atlantic Canadian companies are.

In other words,

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Crate’s Launch Exceeds Expectations

  • Oct 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Ross Simmonds, a mainstay of the online marketing community in Halifax, has launched a tool to help individuals and companies find the content they need to reach a broader community.

Best known for his consulting and blogging work, Simmonds

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Linkett To Triple Customers in 2016

  • Oct 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

As it prepares to close a new round of funding, Linkett has set the ambitious goal of tripling the number of its enterprise clients in 2016.

Waterloo- and Toronto-based Linkett is growth-stage company that helps marketers to assess and improve

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With $35M, TRS Plans Implant Lead

  • Oct 26, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Thinking Robot Studios is thinking big.

The Dartmouth 3D printing concern is developing a multi-faceted plant that promises to become a North American leader in the manufacture of medical implants. It has lined up $35 million in financing for

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Aeryon Raises $60M from Summit

  • Oct 26, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Waterloo drone-maker Aeryon Labs Inc. has closed a $60 million funding round from American investment firm Summit Partners, which will help to accelerate the company’s already impressive growth.

Aeryon is one of the world’s leading manufacturers

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B4Checkin’s Sales Surge 70%

  • Oct 23, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

With new products and a recent sales-boosting partnership, B4Checkin, a site that creates hotel reservation systems, is feeling good about the future and crediting its Halifax location with enabling its success.

B4Checkin is the creator of a

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B4Checkin Sales Surge 70%

  • Oct 23, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

With new products and a recent sales-boosting partnership, B4Checkin, a site that creates hotel reservation systems, is feeling good about the future and crediting its Halifax location with enabling its success.

B4Checkin is the creator of a

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Innovacorp Invests $250K in Densitas

  • Oct 23, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax medical device company Densitas has raised $250,000 in venture capital funding from Innovacorp as part of a funding round including private angel investors.

The company will use the funds to finance the launch of its first product, which

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UHWK Launches Kickstarter Campaign

  • Oct 23, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

UHWK, the maker of a lightweight video camera that athletes can wear during their games, launched a Kickstarter campaign for its initial project this week and has already raised more than half its target.

Founded by hockey players Shea Kewin and

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The Meaning of SimplyCast’s 3Q Results

  • Oct 22, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth multi-channel marketing company, released a statement on its third-quarter results this week, basically showing that its business doubled from the summer of 2014 to the summer of 2015.

But the fact that the company has

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IIoT Is A Huge Opportunity for Canada

  • Oct 22, 2015
  • Scott MacDonald

It’s incredible to think that Aug. 9 was the 20th anniversary of Netscape’s IPO. That listing symbolized the launch of the internet, and it’s amazing to realize how the online world has invaded and enriched so many facets of our lives in just two

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Island Abbey: Strong Growth in Exports

  • Oct 22, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Island Abbey Foods, the Charlottetown-based maker of Honibe lozenges, has successfully grown into export markets enough that four-fifths of its sales this years will come from outside the country.

Founder and President John Rowe said recently

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