In 2003, our founders Gerry Pond, Cathy Simpson, Jeff White, and Curtis Howe set out to jump-start the ICT sector in New Brunswick. This was a time when entrepreneurship was far from a supported, conventional career path. Today, we are fortunate to be a part of a burgeoning startup ecosystem with many resources available to new founders and where entrepreneurship is celebrated.
The Pitch for the Purse competition awards big bucks to a female business owner. This month’s championship round tests the finalists’ powers of persuasion.
Read more to find out how Squiggle Park did in the competition.
Ohio University students will now be able to access mental health care services from their fingertips as part of an interactive online therapy program known as Welltrack.
gShift, an industry leading web presence analytics and content performance technology vendor, has been accepted into the IBM Watson and Bluemix I3 program to further develop its use of machine learning and AI to, in turn, help marketers fully optimize their data-driven content marketing efforts. Specifically, gShift will be using IBM Watson’s Natural Language Understanding and Tone Analyzer solutions to further analyze selected content in order to derive insights and make recommendations regarding the optimization of the content and its distribution, as well as to develop competitive analysis opportunities.
Mariner is pleased to announce Anthony English, VP – Mariner Security Solutions has been appointed to the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) IT Security Techniques committee (MC/ ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 27). He will contribute his expertise to help build IT security standards for Canada.
Gerry Pond is one of Atlantic Canada’s greatest entrepreneurship champions – an entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and civic leader. As the Chairman and Co-Founder of Mariner Partners Inc., he has co-founded a number of successful ICT start-ups, including iMagicTV, Q1 Labs, Brovada Technologies, Radian6, Shift Energy and Cirrus9.
Statistics Canada recently released its latest GDP and related figures for 2016 and New Brunswick has performed surprisingly well.
Business capital spending is still very weak but household expenditures are up and overall GDP is up modestly over 2015. If you combine the GDP growth rates over the past two years, the provincial economy grew by 3.5 percent – above average among the 10 provinces.
A New Brunswick startup is helping professional sports teams bring a more experiential approach to their group ticket sales– and some big names are taking notice.
Bite-sized, animated games to help kids learn to read, and made by Halifax-based Squiggle Park, have gotten a big boost with a loan from Canada’s economic development agency.
The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) welcomes today’s announcement by Finance Minister Bill Morneau regarding the passive investment income tax changes.