IWave Wins Bronze at Stevie Awards

Charlottetown-based iWave, which provides fundraising intelligence solutions, has won a bronze award in the Best Customer Satisfaction Strategy category in the 14th annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service.

IWave offers clients a fundraising intelligence platform, which allows non-profit organizations to identify, qualify and retain donors to raise more major gifts. The company was

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Shawn Smith Inks Deal with UConn

Shawn Smith, a Fredericton-based neurodiversity consultant, has been recruited by the University of Connecticut to participate in a $2 million, five-year initiative to increase the participation of neuro-diverse students in engineering. 

Smith is the founder of consulting firm Don’t dis-my-ability. He specializes in helping talented entrepreneurs and job seekers who have learning and

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ACOA Aids Bio Startups with $1.8M

The federal government on Monday announced $1.75 million in loans to four Halifax-area life sciences companies to help with their expansion.

The four companies are Motryx (which will receive $500,000), Nxtgen Care ($500,000), IR Scientific ($496,850), and Skinfix ($250,000).

In making the announcement, the government noted that the Atlantic Canadian life sciences sector was cited last year by

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Scale-Up Hub Applications Open

The Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge project is accepting applications for its 2020 program, which helps scaling tech companies from the four Atlantic Provinces to grow in the Boston area.

Nova Scotia Business Inc. launched the program in 2018 as a vehicle to help scaling companies establish a base in Cambridge, MA., and generate sales. The project aims to give growing tech companies long-term exposure

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Revolve Buys Code + Mortar Book

Halifax-area marketing agency Revolve has bought the book of business of web development company Code + Mortar, formerly called Norex, for an undisclosed price.

The two parties announced the acquisition on Friday, as Revolve also unveiled the hiring of Naveed Ashfaq, the former Managing Partner of Halifax-based ISL Digital Marketing, as its new Director of Digital.

Code + Mortar has been one of

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Jobs: SnapAp, Dash Hudson

Our Jobs of the Week column today features openings for a pair of positions in the marketing sphere -- Director of Marketing at Moncton-based SnapAp, and Performance Marketing Manager at Dash Hudson of 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

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LeBrun, Newton, join Potential Motors

Not only has Potential Motors pivoted to become a software company, but the Fredericton startup has brought two of New Brunswick’s most successful tech entrepreneurs on to its team.

Chris Newton and Marcel LeBrun have joined Potential Motors as Chief Scientist and Chairperson respectively. They are best known as the Co-Founders of Radian6, the social-media-monitoring company that sold out to

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Clean Energy Alliance Launched

A new alliance of representatives for clean energy development was announced on Monday.

The Atlantic Clean Energy Alliance will work to foster energy innovation in the New Brunswick economy.

Representatives include the University of New Brunswick, Moltex Energy, ARC Nuclear Canada, NB Power, Atlantica Centre for Energy, the Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development, Opportunities

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Growing Fintech in Atlantic Canada

Having worked for decades in the technology industry in Israel, Alicia Ismach sees huge opportunities for Atlantic Canada’s tech sector in general and financial technology, or fintech, in particular.

The native of Argentina was hired as Entrepreneur-in-Residence by New Brunswick innovation hub Venn Innovation in October, 2018. And last year, she began to gather fintech players together to form a

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