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Trying Out InteraXon’s Muse Headset
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
More Startups Need International Reach
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
Big Congrats to Tim Houston, MLA
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
Competitions: 2 Deadlines and 1 Winner
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
New York’s Watzan Mulls Halifax Office
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
Atlantic Angels: New Funding Network
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
BioPort to Focus on Raising Money
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
NBIF’s New Graduate Scholarship
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
Grey Island’s Wave Energy Mission
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
Salesforce Invests in Introhive
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
Smart Skin’s New Packaging Product
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
SageCrowd Launches with Goldsmith
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
