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Myomar Molecular Closes $3.5M Round

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Raised Media’s Deadliest Catch Win

  • Jun 13, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

This is an Atlantic Canadian story of rugged people braving northern oceans and hauling in huge catches of fish.

But unlike so many business stories about the fishery, this one is set in an elegant office with exposed brick and movie posters on

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Angel Funding Soared in 2012

  • Jun 13, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Heimdall Networks CEO Jim DeLeskie declined to be interviewed about his company until January of 2013, preferring to quietly develop his software for about a year without any publicity. Sydney, N.S.-based Heimdall is developing a product that

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New Intelligence Project with Progress

  • Jun 12, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Progress Magazine and Entrevestor today are launching our first joint supplement on the Atlantic Canadian ecosystem. We have just posted the first article from the publication on Entrevestor, and a PDF for the full supplement is available by

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Assessing the Regional Ecosytem

  • Jun 12, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

If there’s a date on which the Atlantic Canadian start-up community was born, it was June 26, 2012. The location was Dieppe, N.B., and the event was the Demo Day of Propel ICT’s Launch36 accelerator, at which community members from across the

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Startup House News: Sally Ng, ACOA

  • Jun 12, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

The appointment of Sally Ng to head the new startup working space in Fredericton means that Atlantic Canada suddenly has a network of startup pods across the region, led by passionate and energetic people.

Fredericton-based Knowledge Park Inc.

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CarbonCure Lines Up More Clients

  • Jun 12, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

CarbonCure Technologies, the Halifax cleantech company dedicated to low-carbon concrete products, has signed a licensing agreement with Northfield Block, a division of publicly listed Oldcastle Inc., the largest producer of concrete masonry and

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Research Ave.: Big Data for Healthcare

  • Jun 11, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Big Data evangelists often say data analytics will improve and lower the cost of health care, and Research Avenue of St. John’s is working each day to make it so.

Research Avenue is a bioinformatics startup that is commercializing research at

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NBIF Cherishes Expanded Role

  • Jun 10, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

New Brunswick has decided that innovation is going to be its engine of economic growth, and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is the engineer making sure the machine runs smoothly.Already this year, New Brunswick Premier David Alward has

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Startup Monthly Looks at Accelerators

  • Jun 10, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Once again, I've got together with my friends at Startup Kitchen for Startup Monthly, and round-table discussion of what's going on in the region.

In addition to Suhaim Abdussamad and Robert Foley, we're joined this month by Jason Janes, a

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Genesis Tech Modernizes US Jails

  • Jun 07, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

As you read this, prison inmates in Minnesota, Kansas, South Dakota and Alabama are ordering basic consumer goods, doing financial transactions or sending messages using technology developed in Nova Scotia.

Genesis Technology of Halifax has

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Changes Sought to NS Digital Credit

  • Jun 06, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

The interactive media industry in Nova Scotia is pressing the provincial government to review the terms and duration of its current digital media tax credit, saying it is difficult to develop long-term strategies without knowing if the credit will

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Rho, Innovacorp Sink $4M into Karma

  • Jun 05, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

With its customer list growing, Karma Gaming of Halifax has announced the $4 million first closing of its Series A round of venture capital in what is believed to be Atlantic Canada’s biggest VC financing from outside the region in almost two

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