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Bluelight Partners with Henry Schein

  • Jul 17, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The world’s largest provider of health-care products and services has begun to offer Halifax-based BlueLight Analytic Inc.’s main product to its customers in Canada.

Henry Schein, Inc., the Melville, N.Y.-based medical product distributer that

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Verafin’s Culture Led to $60M Deal

  • Jul 16, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

One week before he announced the deal that would transform his company, Verafin CEO Jamie King came home to his alma mater to describe the secret to his company’s success.

King and two co-founders had started Verafin, which develops software

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Marli MacNeil, BioNova Part Ways

  • Jul 15, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

BioNova, the Nova Scotia life sciences association, has adopted a new strategic course that has resulted in the departure of Marli MacNeil, who was the group’s executive director since its founding 12 years ago.

MacNeil said in an interview

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Kinduct Buys HealthMet Tech

  • Jul 13, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Kinduct Technologies, the Halifax health-technology company, has acquired Vancouver-based HealthMet Technologies for an undisclosed sum to extend its reach in the community and corporate markets.

Founder and CEO Travis McDonough said in a

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O’Brien Capitalizes on B Corp Status

  • Jul 13, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

With less money and staff than corporations, community groups and non-profits often struggle to make their websites and social media effective. To help them, Kelly O’Brien, a Fredericton-based web designer, has established BBoards.org to allow

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Assessing the First Half of 2014

  • Jul 10, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Looking back on the first half of 2014 in the Atlantic Canadian startup world, there’s not a single event, company or story that stands out as a singular highlight.

So in writing a wrap-up of the first half, I think the dominant feature would

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Vrekic to Step Down at Volta

  • Jul 09, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Milan Vrekic will soon step down as the Executive Director of Volta Labs, the organization that has established itself as the hub of the startup community in Halifax.

In an Interview Tuesday, Vrekic said he is eager to return to his first love,

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ACOA Unveils $43M AIF Funding

  • Jul 09, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The Federal Government on Tuesday announced that it has awarded $43 million in loans to research projects in the region through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Atlantic Innovation Fund.

The AIF lends money to startups and public

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HotSpot Aims for Third City This Year

  • Jul 08, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Now that it has completed the Launch36 accelerator, Fredericton startup HotSpot Parking is gearing up to roll out its solution for downtown shoppers and merchants in its third Atlantic Canadian city.

HotSpot Parking began as a product that

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Startup Cape Breton Event Monday

  • Jul 08, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Cape Breton, the new group promoting entrepreneurship on the island, will hold its inaugural event Monday, July 14, from 4 to 6 pm at the Verschuren Centre of Cape Breton University.

The event aims to explore new opportunities in

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Dan Martell: Tier 1 Accelerator Needed

  • Jul 07, 2014
  • Dan Martell

Whenever we build a component of the Atlantic Canadian ecosystem, we have to model ourselves on the best examples in the world.

So we need to develop an accelerator in the region that meets the criteria of the Global Accelerator Network, or GAN,

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Financing Ugandan Entrepreneurs

  • Jul 04, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Eight years after it was founded to save a sick child, Uganda Venture and its dedicated managing director, Fadi Al Qassar, are getting high-profile help in its efforts to finance Ugandan entrepreneurs.

Among its many valuable projects, Uganda

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