SkillsHawk Celebrates Strong Start

St. John’s-based SkillsHawk – the new name for Creatros Technologies – is reporting strong sales of its talent-mining technology more than three months after its official launch.

The company came together more than four years ago at Memorial University and set out to solve a problem that plagues many teams of programmers – understanding the skillsets of all the team members. It’s common that a

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Using Drones To Improve Potato Production

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Stephanie Arnold’s path to entrepreneurship has included not just a business degree, but also a PhD program, a rotating house and Prince Edward Island’s most famous export.

The environmental sciences PhD candidate and researcher is developing irrigation management software to help potato growers know when and how much to water their crops — an increasingly thorny problem in

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Modest Tree Releases Xplorer 2.0

Halifax-based immersive technology specialist Modest Tree on Tuesday announced the launch of Xplorer 2.0, the latest iteration of its extended reality enterprise software.

Modest Tree’s Xplorer solution allows the use of extended reality (XR) – a blanket term for augmented reality, virtual reality and other technologies that immerse the user in a virtual world – for help in training, sales or

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ClearRisk Raises $3.3M in Growth Capital

St. John’s-based ClearRisk, which provides risk-management software, is hoping to accelerate its recent 30 percent annual growth rate on the back of a $2.5 million round of growth capital and a few landmark sales.

The company said Monday its bank account recently swelled by $3.3 million due to the fundraising exercise and three large sales that add up to $800,000.

The growth capital is mainly a

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23 New Teams Join Lab2Market

Twenty-three teams from 11 universities have been accepted into the Winter 2021 cohort of Lab2Market at Dalhousie University – the biggest representation of institutions in the program’s history.

Modeled on I-Corps in the U.S. and ICURe in the U.K., Lab2Market started last year as a Canadian program that helps academic researchers assess whether their research could be the foundation of a

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Planetary Hydrogen Wins Pitch Event

Planetary Hydrogen, which plans to capture carbon in the world’s oceans, claimed the $2,000 first prize at the annual Start-Up Yard Pitching Event on Thursday.  

Start-Up Yard, Innovacorp’s oceantech hub on the Dartmouth waterfront, brought together nine early-stage entrepreneurs to pitch their companies, and presented Planetary Hydrogen with the top award.

The cleantech company, which recently

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Funds Focus on Diversity

Various national groups have announced funds that boost funding opportunities for diverse founders.

Toronto-based Bay Mills Investment Group has launched its Bay Mills Diversity Fund, which focuses on strengthening investment into BIPOC founders working in specific emerging markets.

The group is preparing to deploy its first $25 million tranche. Investments will range from an initial $500,000

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Stemble Aims for 30 Universities

Jason Pearson is a chemistry prof with a big sales job ahead of him.

Pearson is the Founder and CEO of Charlottetown-based Stemble, whose digital platform aids the remote teaching of chemistry to post-secondary students. The system is now used by 3,500 students at three Canadian universities.

By the time students return to class in September, he wants to increase penetration to 30 universities

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District Invests in Vertiball

In its second Atlantic Canadian deal in a week, Arlene Dickinson’s District Ventures Capital has invested in Fredericton-based manufacturing company Vertiball, whose product helps ease back pain.

The Calgary-based investment group headed by Dickinson issued a statement on Tuesday saying it had closed the investment in the company, though it did not reveal the size of the investment.

When

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