Envenio Eyes $500K After SaaS Launch

Having launched the SaaS version of its product in October, Fredericton’s Envenio is on the hunt for $500,000 in equity funding to help finance the development of its fluid analysis software and push into new markets.

Growing out of intellectual property developed at the University of New Brunswick, Envenio has developed revolutionary computational fluid dynamics, or CFD, software, which it

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Analyze Re To Speak at Launch Dal

Launch Dal, the entrepreneurship program at Dalhousie University, will kick off its winter program with fireside chat with Analyze Re on Jan. 31 at 6:30 pm.

Analyze Re is a Halifax company whose software-as-a-service product helps reinsurers assess risk. It exited in October by selling out to Jersey City, N.J.-based data analytics company Verisk Analytics, Inc. for an undisclosed price.

Analyze

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Aiding the Homeless with Blockchain

Scott Burke wants to use one of the world’s hottest technologies to improve the lot of homeless people.

Burke is the cofounder and CEO of Hypergive, a new Halifax company developing a stored-value card that allows homeless people to purchase essentials and makes it easier for anyone to help the homeless.

What’s special about Hypergive is that it uses blockchain, the technology that is the

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Propel ICT Names First Growth Cohort

Propel ICT, Atlantic Canada’s IT startup accelerator, has announced the first round of companies selected to its Growth program,  which aims to help established innovation companies grow more quickly.

Veteran technology executive Stephen Palmer, who was formerly the Co-CEO at Fredericton-based Remsoft, has customized the six-month program to meet the specific needs of its participants.

The

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12 Teams in Breakthru Semi-Finals

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced the dozen finalists for the 2017 Breakthru competition in the build-up to revealing the winners in late March.

Breakthru is the innovation agency’s flagship competition, held every second year. It aims to bring entrepreneurs into the startup community and usher them through the early stages of starting a business.

To reach the semi-finals,

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Job of the Week: Resson Developer

In our Job of the Week column today, we’re showcasing an opening for software developers (Computer Vision) with one of the regions hottest startups, Resson.

Fredericton-based Resson launched four years ago to create software that would assess data from a range of sources on a farm. They developed a system called RAMAS, which collects data from such sources as tractors, sensors buried in the

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MPs Meeting East Coast Innovators

A four-member group of Atlantic Canadian members of Parliament has wrapped up a tour of the region to hear the concern of innovators and entrepreneurs from the oceans, tech, clean tech, and social innovation sectors.

Andy Fillmore (Halifax), Matt DeCourcey (Fredericton), Sean Casey (Charlottetown), and Nick Whalen (St. John’s East) sought feedback from stakeholders that will form policy

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Bringing Tech to Mink Farming

Mathias Nielsen is like a one-man diversity project. Born in Denmark, Nielsen once developed an app in China that gauged the authenticity of expensive alcohol. Now he’s based in St. John’s where he’s launched technology that helps mink farmers better manage their operations.

The Mink Manager technology provides farmers with services such as analytics, reports, medical test tracking and

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