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

Continue Reading

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.

Continue Reading

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

Continue Reading

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

Continue Reading

Job of the Week: NBIF

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is our lone Job of the Week today.

The non-profit seeks a new Director of Research to help manage its growing portfolio of investments. The candidate must have a graduate degree from a recognized university program that ideally involved a research requirement, at least 10 years of relevant work experience and be fluent in both French and English. 

The

Continue Reading

After 9 Years, Skizee Ready for Orders

Almost a decade after its first prototype drew national media attention, Roshell Industries is bringing its motorized ski accessory to the market.

Originally from Labrador, Roshell is the maker of the Skizee Woodsrunner, a motorized accessory that propels skiers through and over the snow. It’s been nearly a decade since the first prototype was built and it’s now available for preorder.

This is

Continue Reading

Regional Startup Canada Winners

Startup Canada last night announced 10 regional winners of its fifth annual Startup Canada Awards event. Held in Miramichi, N.B., the event celebrated the achievements of Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs, businesses and support organizations.

Winners included respected members of the community such as Dawn Jutla, the CEO and President of Peer Ledger in Halifax, who won the Woman Entrepreneur

Continue Reading

Spark Shortlist Announced

Innovacorp has named the companies that have made the shortlist for this year's Spark Innovation Challenge, the province-wide contest for early-stage technologies companies. 

Judges in four regions reviewed 122 Spark submissions to come up with the shortlist below.  Winners, who will be announced next month, could win up to $50,000 and guidance from seasoned business professionals.

SPARK CAPE

Continue Reading

Our Data Shows Startups Outperform When Working With Universities

Sponsored Content

When analyzing our data on the Atlantic Canadian startup community over the past few years, we’ve noticed that startups that collaborate with post-secondary institutions outperform the broader community. Once again, with our study of companies in 2017, we have found that innovation companies working with universities (and in a few cases with communities colleges) have stronger

Continue Reading

A Chat With Hatch’s Adam Peabody

FREDERICTON – This week, Fredericton-based startup accelerator Planet Hatch announced anew leadership team as it approaches its five-year anniversary. This includes appointing a new director, Adam Peabody.

Huddle chatted with Peabody about the impact Planet Hatch has had on New Brunswick business, where he plans to take it next, and more:

Planet Hatch has been around for about five years now,

Continue Reading