Entrepreneur and smartphone app developer Patrick Malone has his sights set on Fredericton.  He has taken his smartphone app, iTendr, to the popular CBC television show Dragon’s Den. While Malone has been living in Vancouver for five years, he says the company is eyeballing Fredericton, which has a high profile in the tech community. And the University of New Brunswick is fertile ground for tech startups. “For a small city, it is punching way above its weight class,” Malone said. More on UNB-born startups: Engineering student launches pay-by-phone parking company in Fredericton High tech start-up commercializing UNB research MentorMash: Top CEOs and budding entrepreneurs celebrate TME’s 25th Smart Skin Technologies set to launch new golf product UNB students make a grand entrance at NBIF Breakthru Read the full story behind Malone’s smartphone app in the November 29, 2013 edition of the Daily Gleaner. – See more at: http://blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/2013/11/29/unb-fertile-ground-for-tech-startups/#sthash.gJRQLTmr.dpuf