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Community Progress in St. John’s
The startup community in St. John’s is continuing to move forward this week with the opening of its co-working facility and a partnership with Startup Canada.
The innovation community in St. John’s ranges from 150-member multi-nationals like
Economy Debate Must Feature Startups
Jevon MacDonald’s tremendous speech to the Halifax Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday night was the third reminder I had seen in a week that Atlantic Canada needs to develop the technology community.
MacDonald, the chief executive officer and
Tenants Taking Lead as Volta Opens
As Volta opens its doors for the first time this morning, the thing that really pleases its organizers is that they’re no longer the only ones doing the organizing.
That task is being undertaken more and more by the 10 tech startups occupying
Why We Need A Regional Community
In the last two years, I’ve sat separately with Iain Klugman and Gerry Pond and listened to their divergent views on developing start-up communities in Atlantic Canada.
Klugman, the CEO of the Communitech accelerator in Kitchener, Ont., said in
B4Checkin’s Top Line Tripled in 2012
Saar Fabrikant is careful in describing B4Checkin Ltd.’s revenue growth, but he makes it clear that the picture is rosy.
Fabrikant is the president and chief executive officer of the Halifax company, which has developed a suite of cloud-based
Novawise Lands Funding from FAN
With its sales increasing rapidly, Halifax startup Novawise Inc. has closed a six-figure funding round from the First Angel Network to finance its international sales effort.
CEO David MacKinnon said Friday that the funding was worth
ExtremeOcean To Develop Prototype
Peter Gifford may have trouble finding a place to launch the working prototype of his new offshore supply vessel, even though it’s only nine metres long.
The problem: it’s 16 metres deep — same height as, for instance, an IMAX screen.
Gifford
Klugman: Startup Community Is Local
Iain Klugman bristled when I referred to the Atlantic Canadian start-up community in a recent interview. A start-up community, explained the CEO of Kitchener, Ont.-based accelerator Communitech, is a smaller entity than something spanning four
Ryan: Backing Regional Community
[Editor's note: Blair Ryan, CEO of The Rounds of Halifax, contacted Entrevestor to respond to our article on Iain Klugman’s contention – printed previously on the Progress website -- that a startup community can’t span four provinces.We're
Picomole’s Superb Trial Results
Moncton-based Picomole Inc., which is developing a breath analysis device that detects cancer, said yesterday its technology has produced preliminary accuracy of 98.5% in independent trials, which it believes makes it a world leader in detecting
Smart Skin Lands Early Adopter
Smart Skin Technologies of Fredericton has reached an agreement with a major golf club manufacturer to help launch its new Quantifeel product, which tests the pressure points on a golfer’s grip throughout the swing.
Founder and CEO Kumaran
Celtx Doubles Revenue in 3 Months
What a difference a year has made for Celtx, the St. John’s-based maker of pre-production software for the film industry.
By coincidence, I recently interviewed CEO Mark Kennedy, one year to the day after my last report on the company appeared
