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Enovex Seeks Industrial Gas Partner

  • Nov 23, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Saint John-based Enovex hopes to form a partnership with a larger industrial gas company by late March 2013 to help commercialize its flagship compound that aids the production of oxygen for medical and industrial markets.

The company, whose

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Progress Features THENEXTPHASE

  • Nov 22, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The latest edition of Progress Magazine is on the stands and it includes my first-person account of going through THENEXTPHASE, the superb entrepreneurship course offered by Toon Nagtegaal and Shawn Carver.

Just a word of background: this was a

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NSBI Puts $350K into `Stabilized’ Origin

  • Nov 22, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax consumer health products maker Origin BioMed is receiving a $350,000 investment from Nova Scotia Business Inc. which it plans to use to continue its recovery from a cash crisis earlier this year.

In an interview, Executive Chairman Carlo

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NBIF Invests $250,000 in UserEvents

  • Nov 21, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

UserEvents, a startup whose technology alerts corporations when customers are having trouble with online transactions, has attracted a $250,000 venture capital investment from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

Fredericton-based UserEvents

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CacheCase Seeks Retail Distribution

  • Nov 21, 2012
  • Daniel Boltinsky

After a year of selling their flagship product independently, the founders of CacheCase, which makes a combined phone case and wallet, are plotting a strategy to expand into the wider retail market.

Co-Founders Cam McDonald and Matt Biaros and

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Karma Raises Almost $750,000

  • Nov 20, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Karma Gaming, the Halifax startup that is developing video games for regulated lotteries, has landed just under $500,000 in additional seed financing from a group of Atlantic Canadian angels, complemented by a $250,000 loan from the Atlantic

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AioTV Sells 44% Stake for $8M

  • Nov 20, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

AioTV, a startup in which Innovacorp invested $1 million a year ago, has raised $8 million by selling a 44 percent stake to UTStarcom Holdings Corp., a publicly listed maker of broadband equipment and solutions for cable and telecom operators.

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Ludo Wins Startup Weekend Halifax

  • Nov 19, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The team developing Ludo, a smartphone application that helps athletes efficiently arrange workout times with training partners, won Startup Weekend Halifax last night at Dalhousie University.

The event at Dalhousie was one of more than 150

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Lean Programs Are The New Normal

  • Nov 19, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The word “lean” along with its more unexpected connotations are invading the vocabulary of entrepreneurs these days – especially in Atlantic Canada.

The hot new entrepreneurship course on offer at Dalhousie University this year is titled

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Wooshii Adjusts Business Focus

  • Nov 16, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Wooshii, the video crowdsourcing company that set up its North American office in Halifax last year, has been revising its business model with greater emphasis on the creative community as it works on a $1 million fundraising.

Manchester,

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Verafin, LeadSift, 4 Others Win Awards

  • Nov 15, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Six Atlantic Canadian tech companies -- Verafin of St. John’s, LeadSift, Livelenz, Carboncure, and TitanFile of the Halifax area and VidCruiter of Moncton -- have won awards or recognition in the past week, indicating the potential of the digital

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Zaptap Lines up 20 Early Adopters

  • Nov 14, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Zaptap has lined up 20 global companies to test its key product in the next six months, prompting the Fredericton-based tech company to more than double the target of its first venture capital round to $5 million.

Headed by founder and CEO Yan

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