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Scene Sharp Revamps Sales Model

  • May 22, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Scene Sharp Technologies Inc., a Fredericton software company that improves the quality of colour digital photography, is ramping up its sales effort through a series of deals with international distributors.

Scene Sharp is the company set up to

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Jutla: New Paradigms Merit Bold Moves

  • May 22, 2014
  • Dawn Jutla

A technology start-up “gold rush” is in progress worldwide with no signs of slowing, and Atlantic Canada is showing it has the educated resources and energy to pan for this gold too.

According to the latest Entrevestor Intelligence report, 153

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Press Release: Venn Launches

  • May 22, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Venn Innovation, the Moncton-based tech support organization, issued the following press release this week:

Venn Vision and Programs Launched

For immediate release:

Moncton, New Brunswick (May 20, 2014) – Today, Venn Innovation Inc.,

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Congrats to Startup Canada Winners

  • May 21, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Congrats to all the winners  of the Startup Canada Atlantic Awards, which were presented last night at a reception at Dalhousie University.

It was a rousing affair, deftly hosted by Rivers Corbett, the Fredericton-based  owner of the Relish

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How Verafin Won $60M from Spectrum

  • May 20, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

When Spectrum Equity managing director Chris Mitchell flew into St. John’s to meet Verafin  two-and-a-half years ago, both parties noticed something in the other that they liked.

Mitchell and his team from the Boston and Menlo Park, Calif.,

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Profile: Championing PEI Biotech

  • May 16, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Rory Francis’s voice crackled with enthusiasm as he spoke by phone from Charlottetown. “We’re defying gravity here,” said the executive director of the Prince Edward Island BioAlliance as he revealed that, after a decade of careful nurturing, the

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Kira Awards Recognize LeBlanc

  • May 16, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

One of the true champions of the startup community was recognized in Fredericton last night when Nicole LeBlanc, CFO of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, received the Special Recognition award at the Knowledge Industry Recognition and

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Press Release: UNB’s Big Data Chair

  • May 16, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Cisco on Thursday unveiled the Cisco Chair in Big Data at the University of New Brunswick. The following is a blog from Mike Anstey, Vice President, Sales for Business Markets at Cisco Canada, announcing the new post:

A few years ago we

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Spectrum Invests $60M in Verafin

  • May 15, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Verafin, the St. John’s company that develops software for battling money laundering and fraud, has attracted a $60 million buy-in from American private equity firm Spectrum Equity, which will finance the company’s next phase of growth.

Spectrum

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Foursum, Puma Launch Partnership

  • May 15, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

If you can drive a golf ball 10 miles by Canada Day, Foursum and Puma have a hat — and a mobile phone app — for you.

Foursum is a Moncton startup that has developed an app for golfers. On Tuesday, it launched its partnership with Puma, the

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Industrial Internet Blooms in NB

  • May 14, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

When McRock Capital hosts its annual Industrial Internet of Things symposium in Montreal in June, three of the presenting startups will be from Atlantic Canada.

As of March, the Toronto-based venture capital group had selected 10 startups to

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Entrevestor Dinner Marks a Beginning

  • May 13, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Last night, we gathered in Fredericton with almost 50 members of the startup community for the first Entrevestor dinner – an event that marks a beginning on many levels.

Most important, it was the beginning of two discussions that Entrevestor

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