Bulletproof Wins Microsoft Award

Bulletproof, a Fredericton tech services company specializing in cybersecurity, has won the 2019 Microsoft Canada Modern Workplace Innovation Partner of the Year IMPACT Award.

The award recognizes a partner that delivers value to customers through innovative solutions built on Microsoft 365, enabling and empowering businesses to achieve more. Bulletproof said it won the award for its innovation,

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3D Planeta Books Sales, Eyes Round

As it makes inroads into its key markets of defense and emergency response, 3D Planeta is prepping to approach investors late in the summer in the hopes of raising more than $750,000.

Fredericton-based 3D Planeta has developed an online platform that brings 3D maps to conventional computers and devices, bringing users a greater understanding of terrain and what view-planes would be available if

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BioInnovation Challenge Opens

BioNova is calling for early-stage life sciences startups from Atlantic Canada to enter the 2019 BioInnovation Challenge, or BIC, which will take place Nov. 5 and 6 at Pier 21 in Halifax.

Now in its ninth year, BIC is the pitching competition held during BioPort Atlantic, the annual conference for life sciences and biotech in Atlantic Canada. The prize for the winner this year will be $25,000 in

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Jobs : Protocase, Dash Hudson

Our Jobs of the Week column today showcases openings for an R&D Software Developer at Protocase in Sydney and a Customer Success Team Lead at Dash Hudson in Halifax.

Established in 2001, Protocase makes custom electronic enclosures. It focuses on combining advances in software with advanced manufacturing techniques to offer unique custom manufacturing to the engineering, design, and research

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Motryx Wins Women’s Fund Grant

Halifax-based Motryx, which produces sensors that monitor the storage conditions of blood samples during transport, has been awarded a $97,500 grant from the federally funded Women Entrepreneurship Strategy.

CEO Franziska Broell, who holds a PhD in oceanography from Dalhousie University, said in an interview that the money will go toward integrating GPS support into the Motryx sensors by the end

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ACOA Lends Rimot $600K

Dartmouth-based Rimot, whose technology helps to monitor remote infrastructure, has received a $600,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to help with international sales and marketing.

ACOA issued a statement on Wednesday, announcing the loan which it granted under the federal government’s Regional Economic Growth through Innovation program.

The company says it has paying

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NYC’s Watzan Expands in Halifax

Watzan is a profitable, fast-growing Software-as-a-Service company launched in New York in 2014 that is actively growing its development and sales teams – in Halifax.

Five-year-old Watzan offers a content-curation site for medical journals, and CEO Charles Benaiah says one reason it is succeeding is his decision in 2014 to place its operations in Nova Scotia.

“Halifax is the key to our

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