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The Rounds’ New Site for Med Students

  • Sep 10, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

The Rounds, the social network for Canadian doctors, on Wednesday launched The Clerks, a parallel community for the country’s medical students.

With 13,000 active members, The Rounds has established itself in just four years as the main online

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Propel Names 12 Demo Day Pitchers

  • Sep 10, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Propel ICT, the regional tech accelerator, has named six companies from its Launch program to present alongside members of the more advanced Build cohort at its Demo Day on Sept. 22 in Moncton.

The current Propel cohort consists of 33 teams, and

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Billion Dollar Lunch Set for Moncton

  • Sep 10, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

The Moncton area economic development agency 3+ Corporation is kicking off a day of startup festivities on Sept. 22 with a lunch featuring two renowned experts in startups.

The Billion Dollar Lunch will be highlighted by talks by American

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NBIF, Innovatia, Put $1.5M into Gemba

  • Sep 09, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Gemba Software Solutions, a Saint John IT startup that helps big business employees navigate their company’s operations, has received $1.5 million in funding to help it spin out from parent company Innovatia.

The New Brunswick Innovation

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Change is Afoot at Genesis Centre

  • Sep 09, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

There is still more than a year left before the Genesis Centre staff pack up the boxes at their St. John’s Bruneau Centre office and move to new digs at the Battery. But that’s certainly not to say change is not afoot at the Memorial University of

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Set Scouter’s Sales Soar

  • Sep 08, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

When he worked as a film producer, Alex Kolodkin realized that his peers could really use a product that simplified the process of finding filming locations. It led him to establish Set Scouter, one of the companies due to graduate from

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I-3 Contest Offers $950K in Prizes

  • Sep 08, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp has launched its fifth I-3 Technology Startup Competition, in which startups from across Nova Scotia vie for as much as $950,000 in development funding.

The Nova Scotia innovation agency kicked off the competition last week with a

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Bungalo Lured by Canada’s Expanse

  • Sep 04, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

The 2008 recession hit Iceland very hard. Entrepreneur Haukur Gudjonsson lost his business. But his loss led him to create Bungalo, a rental company that’s expanding into Canadian cottage country.

Gudjonsson established Bungalo in 2010 to link

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Press Release: MedMira Raises $5M

  • Sep 04, 2015

MedMira, a publicly listed  medical device maker, has issued the following press release:

MedMira Targets Technology Promotion with Latest Investment from OnSite Lab

Company Focuses on Business Development Activities to Capitalize on

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Universities Boost Startup Sales

  • Sep 03, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

When Gordon McArthur presented Forerunner Research at the Atlantic Venture Forum in June, he revealed the tremendous sales growth of the company, whose technology detects gases in soils.

Revenue at Forerunner, which grew out of research

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Universities Adapt to Startup Craze

  • Sep 03, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Entrepreneurship took centre stage when Atlantic Canadian university educators gathered for their annual summit in January.

The speakers at the Atlantic Leaders’ Summit, organized by the Atlantic Association of Universities, were discussing

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Entrepreneurship in Arts Programs

  • Sep 03, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

A veteran of Toronto literary circles is now at the centre of a pioneering movement in Atlantic Canadian university entrepreneurship.

Don Sedgwick’s career is steeped in publishing, having edited more than 100 books, ghost-written more than a

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