NEXT Summit Coming March 2

Invest Nova Scotia, the successor to recently amalgamated provincial venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp and business development corporation Nova Scotia Business Inc., will hold this year’s NEXT conference March 2.

The NEXT Nova Scotia Business Growth summit is a day-long virtual event that addresses issues faced by businesses of all sizes. Before the provincial government created

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TechNL Seeks Directors

Newfoundland and Labrador industry group TechNL is looking for nominees for its board of directors with expertise in cybersecurity and risk management, finance and facilities management.

TechNL members can either nominate someone else for the role or stand for election themselves. Two members of TechNL’s existing five-person board are seeking re-election, leaving three openings. Board members

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Mariner Turns 20 With Strong Financials

Mariner Partners, the 350-person firm founded by former NBTel CEO and Aliant Telecom President Gerry Pond, along with execs Bob Justason and Curtis Howe, is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

The three men founded Mariner in Saint John without a specific market offering, but with a goal of using innovation to increase the prosperity of Atlantic Canada.

Today, Mariner is the umbrella corporation

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Shoelace Attracts BDC Investment

Halifax-based Shoelace Learning has attracted investment from BDC Capital’s Thrive Venture Fund, closing out an oversubscribed seed round that the edtech company had originally targeted at $4 million. 

Shoelace previously announced a US$3 million first close of the round in November, and said at the time it expected the round to reach US$4.5 million. The round was led by female-focused venture

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Sandpiper Backs Toronto’s Gotcare

Atlantic Canada's Sandpiper Ventures, the female-focused venture capital fund, has made an investment of an undisclosed amount in Toronto’s Gotcare, which is developing an artificial intelligence system for home healthcare services.

Gotcare, founded by CEO Chenny Xia, has grown from $100,000 in annual revenue to $4 million today, Sandpiper said in a statement.

The company works with insurance

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Nxtgen Expands in US, Eyes US$2.5M in Sales

Dartmouth’s Nxtgen Care, which sells technology for tracking the activities of staff and residents in assisted living facilities, is expanding into Florida and Louisiana as CEO David Burke eyes about US$2.5 million in new sales in 2023.

Nxtgen is used in care homes in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, as well as in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee — the result of a United States

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ShiftKey Labs to Offer Game Design Crash Course

With the video game industry enjoying increasing prominence in Atlantic Canada, Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Computer Science is getting in on the action with an event from Feb. 3 to 5 that promises to teach novice developers the basics of coding video games.

Global Game Jam, as Dalhousie dubs the event, will last 48 hours and teach participants to design and develop a video game from

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Halifax Community Fridge Seeks Support

A community fridge in Halifax that is used and stocked anonymously by local citizens is in need of donations due to growing demand.

Founded a year ago by students and recent grads, the fridge is located outside the Glitter Bean Café off Spring Garden Road. Keeping it filled is increasingly difficult, said board member and spokesperson Rhyan Schennery.

“Over the last year, we have noticed

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