Job of the Week: Innovacorp

Innovacorp’s posting for a Vice President of Investment is our one job in our Jobs of the Week column today.

The Nova Scotian venture capital and innovation agency aims to help startups commercialize technologies for the global market. Current Innovacorp companies include Appili Therapeutics, Prospify and Dash Hudson.

The Halifax-based organization also boosts early-stage technologies with the

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Kognitiv Spark Vies for Microsoft Prize

Kognitiv Spark, one of the hottest new tech startups in Atlantic Canada, has been named a finalist by Microsoft Canada for the tech giant’s 2018 Impact Awards.

Fredericton-based Kognitive Spark, which uses augmented reality to help workers in remote locations, said Wednesday the company has been named a finalist in the Innovation with Hardware category. The winners will be named at a ceremony in

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Region on Pace for Funding Record

As we approach the halfway point of 2018, it may be time to take a look on how fundraising by Atlantic Canadian startups has gone in the first half of the year.

Quick answer: Really good.

I posted on the Entrevestor Facebook page a few weeks ago that I believed equity funding for 2018 was already approaching about $45 million to $50 million. As we coast toward the Canada Day weekend, I realize

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Hydrotroniks seeks investments

Hydrotroniks is a clean-tech company nestled along the Cabot Trail in Cheticamp, Cape Breton. This company, which is made up of engineers, designers and environmental engineers, aims to create solutions for a more efficient and eco-friendly fishing industry.

Its team is developing environmentally sustainable solutions for small to medium size boats. The company was founded in 2016, with the goal

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Global Vision’s Youngest Junior Ambassador

For its annual trip to China, Global Vision Junior Team Canada selected 35 student ambassadors to represent businesses from their regions of the country. This year, JTC recruited its youngest ever ambassador, 15-year-old Connor Kirby from the St. Margaret’s Bay area in Halifax.

“I am overjoyed that I got accepted for it,” said Kirby in an interview.  “I did not think I was actually going to make

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Goldcorp Bets US$1M on Acoustic Zoom

Acoustic Zoom, a Newfoundland company that provides seismic solutions for miners, has closed a US$1 million investment from Goldcorp Inc. and will now undertake a US$150,000 pilot program at a Goldcorp mine.

In the past year, the company has twice competed in the #DisruptMining pitching competition in Toronto, which is a Dragons’ Den-style pitching event for startups in the mining space.

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My First Novel is Out Next Month

I am delighted to announce that my first novel The Haight will be published next month and is now available for pre-order.

Those of you who have got to know us over the past few years know that Carol and I suffer from a rather dismal addiction – writing books. We’ve both published a few and this is my first novel, a murder mystery set in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district in 1968. I call it

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AVSS in National Drone Research

New Brunswick and Ottawa-based AVSS (Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions) has announced it is supplying key innovations for Canada Post’s Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Proof of Concept Trials.

AVSS is collaborating with Canada Post to demonstrate the benefits of using drone technology for parcel and medical delivery.

Founded by Josh Ogden of Rothesay, NB, and Josh Boudreau of Ottawa, AVSS is

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