Our Job of the Week column this week features an opening for a Customer Success Associate at Dash Hudson in Halifax.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for clients to manage, source and engage with the traffic of their photos and videos.

The Job of the

Eight months after being named Investment Principal of Sandpiper Ventures, Danielle Graham has taken two new jobs, becoming a partner of both the Halifax-based business advisory group Imaginal Ventures and the U.S. venture capital group Aligne Capital.

Graham and the Atlantic Canadian female-led investment group parted ways recently, and Sandpiper has brought in Stefanie Corbett, Director of

Thursday night, Propel held its virtual Christmas party, at which the regional accelerator posted a video by me ranking the top 10 stories we've covered in 2020. 

Limiting the number of stories to 10 was difficult. For example, the accelerated launch of projects by Canada's Ocean Supercluster could have made it, but we thought there were 10 stories that fit the bill even better. You can argue

Moncton-based SnapAP, which makes payment software, has closed a “significant portion” of a funding round that it hopes will reach US$2 million (C$2.6 million). The money has come largely from angels in Israel.

The company, whose full name is Snap Accounts Payable Corporation, has spent most of 2020 setting the stage for rapid sales growth next year by ensuring its solution has the functionality

The TME program at the University of New Brunswick is looking for scaling companies to participate in the next cohort of Scale Up Atlantic Canada.

Two years ago, the Fredericton university teamed up with Boston-based Babson College – long recognized for its entrepreneurial program – to create its new offering. The accelerator will be led by Babson professor Daniel Isenberg, who will use his

Halifax-based Motryx, whose technology helps ensure the safe transport of blood samples, has struck a partnership with Germany’s Aerocom, a global leader in installing pneumatic tube systems in hospitals.

They will work together to distribute Motryx’s product VitalQC – a quality assurance tool that validates whether pneumatic tube installations are safe and effective for transporting blood

Vertiball, the Fredericton-based manufacturing concern, appeared on Dragons’ Den on CBC last week and walked away with a $420,000 investment by marketing whiz Arlene Dickinson.

Once the deal closes, Dickinson will have a 17 percent stake in the company, meaning the investment values Vertiball at about $2.5 million.

Liam Floyd at Huddle caught up with Vertiball CEO Curtis Kennedy to get the

Halifax Innovation District has joined a network of similar groups convened by the Global Institute on Innovation Districts, or GIID.

Innovation Districts are defined as highly productive and densely concentrated city areas where people develop eosystems that foster generating and accelerating ideas. The GIID network allows distritcts to share best practices and strategy sessions on topics such

Having completed its rebranding exercise, Sydney-based Mabel Systems has developed the prototype of its inventory tracking system for food industries.

Formerly called Tracker Inventory Systems, the company helps companies in such segments as seafood, aquaculture and agriculture keep track of their inventory as it proceeds to market. The camera-based system needs no manual input from workers on

Innovacorp and its partners are seeking applications for two programs that fund innovation-driven companies in Nova Scotia – the Sprint competition and GreenShoots.

Sprint is a funding program that provides as much as $25,000 in non-dilutive funding as well as business guidance to a range of Nova Scotian startups. The goal is to help young companies meet specific, short-term aims and reward them