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Trying Out InteraXon’s Muse Headset

  • Oct 10, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Late last month, USA Today published my latest story on Canadian technology, which featured InteraXon of Toronto. You can find it here. This is a really cool company, headquartered in the trendy neighbourhood around Spadina and King, just down the

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More Startups Need International Reach

  • Oct 09, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Last week, I wrote that more institutional money is coming into Atlantic Canadian startups, which is good because the world of funding is changing.

That was the good news. But it is counterbalanced by some bad news, which is that too many

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Big Congrats to Tim Houston, MLA

  • Oct 09, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

We want to offer huge congratulations to Tim Houston, a member of the startup community who was elected to the Nova Scotia legislature last night.

Running for the Progressive Conservatives, Houston won the Pictou East seat in last night’s

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Competitions: 2 Deadlines and 1 Winner

  • Oct 09, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

We’ve been getting requests to remind the startup community that deadlines are approaching for some high profile competitions, and people should get their names in. With luck, they’ll be as successful as Mindful Scientific has been in a recent

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New York’s Watzan Mulls Halifax Office

  • Oct 08, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

When Charles Benaiah visited Dalhousie University to tell students about his experience founding and selling a startup in New York, he didn’t expect he’d soon be planning to establish his development team in Halifax.

But Benaiah, who received

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Atlantic Angels: New Funding Network

  • Oct 07, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

A group of seasoned investors and entrepreneurs will launch a new angel investment group in Halifax today with a pledge that they will not charge companies any fees to pitch to the group.

Having already attracted about 30 investors, Atlantic

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BioPort to Focus on Raising Money

  • Oct 07, 2013
  • Carol Moreira

Money and how to obtain it will be one of the themes of this year’s BioPort Atlantic Conference, which will take place at Halifax’s Westin Nova Scotian hotel on October 9 and 10.

“Putting more focus on money reflects what we’re hearing from our

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NBIF’s New Graduate Scholarship

  • Oct 07, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

As part of the province’s innovation strategy, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation last week launched a new graduate and doctoral scholarship initiative mainly aimed at students in the sciences.

The provincial innovation agency is

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Grey Island’s Wave Energy Mission

  • Oct 04, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Grey Island Energy, a St. John’s, N.L., clean tech company, is on a mission to raise $750,000 to finance a series of tests to validate its wave energy technology.

The company, which operates out of the Genesis Centre at Memorial University of

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Salesforce Invests in Introhive

  • Oct 03, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Introhive Inc. has raised its current round of funding to about $5 million with a strategic investment from Salesforce.com of San Francisco.

The Fredericton- and Washington, D.C.-based startup said in a statement Wednesday that Salesforce had

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Smart Skin’s New Packaging Product

  • Oct 03, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Smart Skin Technologies of Fredericton has unveiled a new application for its pressure-sensitive material that is already finding traction with a few global food and drink producers.

The company has developed technology called Quantifeel, which

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SageCrowd Launches with Goldsmith

  • Oct 02, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

A personal help guru from San Diego tomorrow is going to use a speech in Montenegro to launch a new service on a platform developed by a Halifax tech company.

During the speech in the Balkan country, Marshall Goldsmith, the author of What Got

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