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The Bonfire Infographic

  • May 01, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

As part of the Entrevestor Intelligence report launched today, we were truly fortunate to work with Bonfire Communications of Saint John on this tremendous infographic.

Artist Lise Hansen was given the task of converting data on the Atlantic

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Atlantic Startup Canada Awards

  • May 01, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

I’d like to thank all of you who tweeted or emailed you congratulations on being recognized by Startup Canada on Wednesday. And I’d like to send out my congratulations to the other winners – just to be named with these people is great honour.

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St. John’s’ Innovation Week Coming Up

  • Apr 30, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

We’re less than a week away from the start of Innovation Week in St. John’s, and I’m really excited to be joining and participating in the events in Newfoundland and Labrador. I’m even hosting one.

StartupNL, which is organizing the city’s first

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Press Release: NBIF Supports Students

  • Apr 30, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation issued the following press release yesterday:

 FREDERICTON, N.B.—The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) today announced $900,000 in funding to support 34 undergraduate and 73 graduate student

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ABK Courts Angels Outside Region

  • Apr 29, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax medical device company ABK Biomedical is raising about $1 million in equity financing to help get its product on the European market in about a year. While it’s secured about half the total from the First Angel Network, or FAN, it’s also

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Help Shape our Mentorship System

  • Apr 29, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

On May 12, you can help to shape the direction of one of the most important components of the East Coast startup ecosystem – Mentorship.

That evening, at the Kingswood golf club in Fredericton, Entrevestor will host a dinner at which we will

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Cellufuel Nears $5M Funding Round

  • Apr 28, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Cellufuel, the company developing a biomass facility at the site of the former Bowater Mersey paper mill, is working hard to finalize a $5 million funding round, half of which is equity investment from private sources.

The Halifax-based company

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Startup Directory Deadline Coming

  • Apr 28, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

You have a few days left to get your company’s contact details into the Atlantic Canada Startup Directory, and we’re looking for more submissions.

More than 100 startups have submitted their names, which is a good start. But we’re looking for

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Profile: Pelley Brings Spark to CB

  • Apr 25, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

In 2006, Bob Pelley developed and piloted Innovacorp’s I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition, which began in Cape Breton and spread provincewide, fostering some of Nova Scotia’s most promising startups. Now, Pelley has got behind Spark Cape Breton

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Not Business as Usual Playing Monday

  • Apr 25, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Haligonians are invited to view a free documentary called Not Business As Usual that stresses the need for entrepreneurs to be agents for social good and redefine business. Organizers of the screening say the documentary recently played to a

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NB, NS Seek Crowdfunding Feedback

  • Apr 24, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The prospects are excellent that equity-based crowdfunding will soon be allowed in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, but first securities regulators are looking for feedback on new rules for the online fundraising.

The Nova Scotia Securities

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Clarification on the Startup Directory

  • Apr 24, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

As the entries are coming in for the Atlantic Canada Startup Directory, it’s becoming clear we at Entrevestor have to differentiate between this directory as opposed to the databank we assembled earlier in the year.

What we are now seeking is

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