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After Pivot, Dash Hudson Raises $1M
Dash Hudson, a Halifax company that helps shoppers purchase clothes they see on Instagram ads, has raised $1 million, including funding from two of the province’s leading tech entrepreneurs, Jevon MacDonald and Gavin Uhma.
While the money is
Press Release: Teen Event in Sydney
The UIT program at Cape Breton University issued the following press release:
High School Hackathon hosted by UIT Startup Immersion
UIT Startup Immersion at Cape Breton University is hosting a free, day-long hackathon for high school students.
AutoPulse Plans Launch in 2016
A few months after musing with his father about new technologies for the automotive industry, Sam Jesso is one step away from capturing more than $200,000 in seed funding and services to develop such a product.
Jesso heads AutoPulse, a
Press Release: Local Prosperity Event
The Centre for Local Prosperity has issued the following press release:
Regional Economics Conference planned for April 2015
(Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia) March 2, 2015. It is widely known that small rural communities in Atlantic Canada
Press Release: Next Propel Cohort
Propel ICT, Atlantic Canada’s startup accelerator, has issued the following press release:
Propel ICT Opens Up Applications For Next Round of Startup Programs
Programs Offered for New Startups or Established Early-Stage Companies.
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Venture for Canada Deadline Sunday
The final Fellow application deadline for this year's Venture4Canada cohort is March 1st, 2015.
Venture for Canada is a career accelerator for recent grads, who want to learn how to build a business, while making an impact.
Fellows join a
Zed’s Entrepreneurship Education
After five years of volunteering as a high school entrepreneurship teacher, Robert Zed is working on a new venture of his own, one that will bring entrepreneurship education to many.
Zed, chairman of Triangle Strategies of Halifax, helps a
A Look at Failures in 2014
Entrevestor recently completed its second survey of Atlantic Canadian startups, and one of the striking figures was the number of companies that vanished in 2014.
Here are the basics. Of the 290 companies we surveyed last year, eight were
WaitShare Aims at Clinic Wait Times
Fredericton-based VeroSource Solutions, a tech startup that incorporated last year, has launched its first product WaitShare, a free app that aims to inform the public about wait times at walk-in clinics and emergency rooms.
Though several
Press Release: CBMC Deadline
The Rowe School of Business at Dalhousie University has issued the following press release:
Call for Student Startups: Canada’s Business Model Competition
Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business is hosting Canada’s Business Model
McRock, NBIF in $3M RtTech Deal
RtTech Software, whose state-of-the-art automation helps industrial companies improve manufacturing processes, will announce Tuesday that it has closed a $3-million venture capital round led by the world’s leading industrial Internet of things
Press Release: Breakthru Finalists
The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has issued the following press release:
BREAKTHRU FINALISTS ANNOUNCED!
After months of work for our five finalist teams, the idea of becoming entrepreneurs remains a dream. But three of them will become
