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Jordan Kyriakidis doesn’t just think his company, QRA Corp., will benefit from the Industrial Internet of Things. The CEO believes it will benefit from his company.

QRA has developed software that helps large manufacturers detect flaws in products early in the design stage. Kyriakidis said the technology will prove invaluable to the Internet of Things, in which machines communicate with one

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Paul Singh: The Guy with the Jet Fuel

Paul Singh spent half of his childhood in Ashburn, Va., better known as Cashburn, thanks to the AOL headquartering there until 2009. Though Singh did work at AOL—as well as a used car dealership—he gave Ashburn another reason for its nickname: he now invests in high-growth companies.

Singh was previously a partner at 500 Startups, which partners individuals to invest in startups, where he

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I-3 Contest Draws 188 Submissions

Innovacorp’s I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition has received 188 submissions for its 2015-16 event. Though it was fewer applications than the last time the contest was held, the organizers said they’re pleased with the number – and especially the quality – of the applications.

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia innovation agency, holds the competition every second year with the goal of encouraging

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Sequence, NL Govt Sign Agreement

Sequence Bio, the St. John’s company that analyzes genetic data to improve medical outcomes, has signed a partnership agreement with the government of Newfoundland and Labrador to conduct research in the province.

The parties last week announced the partnership in a statement, saying it will support commercial research and development opportunities in precision medicine.

Founded in 2013,

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Please Get Out and Vote Today

Please, please, please, get out and vote today.

While all citizens should vote, we feel it’s especially important for members of the startup community to exercise their franchise for two main reasons.

First, there’s a movement afoot for the startup community to be more active in economic policy. John Ruffolo of OMERS Ventures and BlackBerry Co-Founder Jam Balsillie are urging mature

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Thriving in Place-Based Marketing

Just as consumers are purchasing streaming devices to control their home entertainment, businesses are turning to Internet technology to control screens inside their places of business.

Brand marketers and retail networks are among those using the technology to publish digital content on screens inside their stores in the hopes of engaging and entertaining visitors. It’s part of a technology

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Feunekes Honoured by Startup Canada

In receiving the Adam Chowaniec Lifetime Achievement award from Startup Canada on Wednesday night, Andrea Feunekes noted that building Remsoft into a global leader in natural resources land management hasn’t always been easy.

Feunekes received the award, presented by Wolf Blass, at the regional awards for Atlantic Canada, which recognized nine entrepreneurs or groups from the region.

As

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3 Takeaways from a Month in KW

A month immersed in the Kitchener-Waterloo tech community is an exhilarating and educational experience. Here are three things I learned from spending the last month among the greatest concentration of startups in the country.

•Twenty-five million is the new hundred thousand.

I was interviewing the founder of a six-month-old startup last week when he mentioned he would apply for the Rev

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