Innovacorp Names Ray VP of Investment

Andrew Ray has been named the new Vice-President of Investment at Innovacorp, and he has a singular priority: to see the Nova Scotia venture capital agency make money for the provincial government.

The Crown corporation announced last week that Ray, who has been an Innvovacorp IT investment manager for four years, would succeed Charles Baxter, who retired earlier this year. Innovacorp hired a

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6 Takeaways from #SocialSydney

A sold-out crowd assembled Friday for Social Media Sydney, in which experts from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. gathered in the Cape Breton city to provide sage advice on using social media.

Organized by Nava Marketing, the event was designed to help business people understand the best ways to get their message out using a range of social media – on both different platforms and different media.

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Nature’s Way Partners with NPC

Nature’s Way Canada, a company that produces a wide range of all-natural health products, has formed a partnership with Natural Products Canada, a non-profit that commercializes natural product companies  in Canada.

The two organizations announced their shared commitment to co-invest in early-stage Canadian companies that are developing innovative natural health products in a statement last

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Jobs of the Week: 3 at Dash Hudson

The silence has been broken after a few quiet weeks on our job board. Today, in our Jobs of the Week column, we're highlighting three postings from Dash Hudson, a visual media marketing company in Halifax. 

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that  helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for its

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Data Shows Growing Core of Startups

It’s difficult to quantify the growth of a startup community year to year, but there is one figure from our 2017 Atlantic Canadian Startup Data report that demonstrates what’s happening in the space.

On Thursday, we're releasing the highlights of the report and explained our findings to key stakeholders at a luncheon hosted by Business Development Bank of Canada. The report contains the best

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Hanatech Building IoT Dashboards

Hanatech, an IoT solutions company nestled in Bedford, is getting ready to release a new integrated dashboard, called One Smart View, that lets its customers receive and manage their data.

IoT, or the Internet of Things, is a term that refers to the global network of devices, like our phones, computers and tablets, that are all connected to one another via internet and the cloud. IoT companies

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Wagner named Climate Trailblazer

Jennifer Wagner, the Executive Vice-President of CarbonCure Technologies, has been selected as a Climate Trailblazer as part of the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

Wagner is the sole Trailblazer chosen from Canada, this year. 

The Summit, which is taking place this week, selected 22 Trailblazers across six continents who are solving problems in one of the Summit’s five areas

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PEI Sees Benefits of Rounding out its Ecosystem

Maybe it’s not a coincidence that the lone Atlantic Canadian company named to the Canadian Innovation Exchange this year is from the smallest province.

Maybe – or should we say probably – it’s the result of a methodical, multi-year strategy to improve the startup ecosystem in Prince Edward Island.

The Toronto-based CIX said last week its 20 laureates for 2018 include Island Water Technologies,

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