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January 05, 2016
CDMN announces winter 2016 Soft Landing program cohort
26 companies have been accepted into the winter 2016 cohort for the Canadian Digital Media Network’s (CDMN) Soft Landing program. The program helps mature startups and small-to-medium size enterprises (SMEs) in CDMN’s network of partner hubs to open a satellite office or grow distribution channels in a foreign market.
November 17, 2015
Tech veteran David Lizius joins QRA board
David Lizius has joined the Board of Directors of Halifax-based QRA Corp. as an independent member. Lizius is an accomplished high-tech industry veteran with experience leading both business and technical design teams across the space, defence, and biotechnology sectors.
October 27, 2015
CDMN Soft Landing program open until Nov. 27 for winter cohort
Canadian companies associated with an incubator or accelerator within the Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) are invited to apply to enter new international markets for up to three months. Canadian small- to mid-size enterprises (SME) gain access to regional support and introduction.
September 15, 2015
CDMN Soft Landing program announces largest ever cohort
Thirty-two Canadian companies have been selected to be a part of the Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) Soft Landing program, which provides mature startups and small- to medium-sized companies with financial support to expand into foreign markets anywhere in the world.
August 12, 2015
APrivacy to open regional office in Hong Kong
APrivacy, formerly I Think Security, has announced plans to expand operations to Hong Kong. “Hong Kong was a natural choice for us,” said Dr. Cedric Jeannot, APrivacy’s founder and CEO, who travelled to the Asian financial capital to take part in the FinTech Innovation Lab in 2014.
May 29, 2015
Tulip Retail and Voices.com take on NYC with a little help from their friends
The CTA@NYC was launched in February of 2012, and has helped 66 companies find customers or investors. While there were a number of notable successes over the first two years the CTA@NYC followed a path familiar to many startups and decided to pivot this past year.
May 13, 2015
Verizon Powerful Answers Award 2015
Verizon is now accepting ideas for its 2015 Powerful Answers Award program. Now in its third year Verizon’s Powerful Answers Award offers innovators, developers and entrepreneurs a total of $6M in cash prizes, plus the opportunity for winners to participate in an Accelerator program designed to help develop their ideas
March 09, 2015
CDMN Soft Landing program announces latest cohort
Twenty-nine companies have been selected for the latest cohort of the Canadian Digital Media Network’s Soft Landing program. Given the abundance of high-quality applications it received for the spring cohort, the Soft Landing program team decided to support as many applicants as possible.