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NBIF Launches Breakthru Competition

  • Oct 24, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Cox & Palmer yesterday launched the province’s fourth Breakthru competition, which tests entrants’ ability to write business plans and awards winners a total of $250,000 in cash and professional

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LeadSift Inks Funding, Marketing Deals

  • Oct 23, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

As it achieves a preliminary close on its first round of funding, LeadSift has signed a deal to market its lead-generation product through Salesforce.com – a deal that came together because of an article on Entrevestor.com in May.

Halifax-based

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Alpha Dog Soon to Launch Wraithborne

  • Oct 22, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Alpha Dog Games’ website describes better than I can what it will unleash on the world in a couple of weeks: a “visceral WHACK ‘N’ SMASH action-adventure game in a dark fantasy world.”

Yikes.

Alpha Dogs is a mobile gaming company based in

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Springboard to Host Technology Showcase

  • Oct 19, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Springboard Atlantic, the organization that supports the commercialization of research at the region's post-secondary institutions, will host a technology showcase in Halifax on Wednesday in association with the National Angel Summit, which opens

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NBIF Invests $500,000 in Breviro

  • Oct 18, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Breviro Caviar Inc, which is commercializing a rare caviar taken from the shortnose sturgeon, has secured a $500,000 venture capital investment from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, bringing its total equity raise to $2.5 million.

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Foursum to Launch at PGA Show

  • Oct 17, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Matt Eldridge and Adam MacDonald have decided to follow that age-old advice about working on your greatest passion, and they’ve figured out a way to combine their proficiency in software with their love of golf.

These two veterans of the Moncton

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New VC Fund Should Just be First Step

  • Oct 16, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The Regional VC Fund, which launched last week, was created largely to solve the lack of capital in Atlantic Canada.

It was an age-old complaint from entrepreneurs in the region: there simply wasn’t enough capital in these parts to nurture

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Pineau Crowdfunding for New Site

  • Oct 12, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

A Prince Edward Island web designer is crowdfunding for a digital project he hopes will benefit research into diseases or other charitable causes.

Brad Pineau of Charlottetown has created Coding for Cures, a not-for-profit startup that will

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FAN’s TitanFile Funding Oversubscribed

  • Oct 12, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

TitanFile Inc.’s decision to seek financing from the First Angel Network of Halifax has resulted in an oversubscription of the offering by 86 percent – one of the strongest responses in the history of the angel group.

Dartmouth-based TitanFIle,

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Keefe to Manage Regional VC Fund

  • Oct 11, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic regional venture capital fund will be managed by Patrick Keefe, now the Vice-President of Investment at Innovacorp, and include a $5 million contribution from Technology Venture Corp. of Moncton, the three Maritime Provinces announced

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Karma team launches Dystillr

  • Oct 10, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

In launching their new casual gaming analytics tool dystillr, two Karma Gaming execs have used the technology to unveil some troubling trends at the world’s largest social gaming company, Zynga Inc.


Jay Aird and Duncan Gillis have posted a

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Jevon MacDonald in Progress Magazine

  • Oct 09, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The cover story of this month's Progress is my story on Jevon MacDonald's adventure in Silicon Valley, where he spent months raising his A Round for GoInstant. In the story, MacDonald pooh-poohs the rumours that he hit up existing contacts for

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