Itavio Gains Funds, Joins HearstLabs

Itavio, a startup that helps gaming companies increase revenues and retain customers, has received several hundred thousand dollars in funding, and is expanding its marketing efforts as it joins a New York accelerator.

The company – which has offices in Moncton, New York and Montreal – has issued two press releases this month, saying it’s taken on funding from the New Brunswick Innovation

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UNB Displays Electric Car Conversion

A team of New Brunswick students on April 5 will showcase a simple process to convert gas-guzzling vehicles to electric power -- a process that is the basis for their new startup. 

The engineering students at University of New Brunswick will park a demo car at the front entrance of the Fredericton Convention Centre as part of the fourth annual UNB Engineering Design Symposium.

The one-day event

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LifeRaft partners with PlanetRisk

LifeRaft, a Halifax Software-as-a-Service company that detects safety threats through social media, said Tuesday its technology will be integrated into the leading security product at PlanetRisk, a security and risk analytics firm in Virginia.

The cross-boarder partnership will combine LifeRaft’s open source intelligence analytics platform with PlanetRisk’s existing global security operations

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Mariners Are Kinduct’s 9th MLB Client

Halifax health-technology company Kinduct Technologies said Tuesday the Seattle Mariners have become the ninth Major League Baseball team to subscribe to the company’s athlete management system, or AMS.

With this new partnership, the Mariners will be able to obtain a deeper understanding of their players’ data resulting in intuitive decision-making within their organization, said Kinduct in a

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India’s Space O Sets Up in PEI

When Space O Technologies moved into Launchpad PEI in Charlottetown last fall, it became one of the biggest startups in the region in terms of total headcount.

There’s some irony, then, that the greatest challenge founder and CEO Rakesh Patel faces is finding the right staff for his P.E.I. operation.

Space O is an eight-year-old mobile app development company that Patel founded in Ahmedebad in

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NS Contributes $11M to SMU Facility

The Province of Nova Scotia will contribute about $11 million to a new facility for entrepreneurship and innovation at St. Mary’s University.

On Thursday, the provincial government made the announcement as part of a $244 million wave of funding that came from a one-time windfall from offshore oil revenue. While most of the media attention was dedicated to funding for rural internet, the spending

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Picomole Is Back, Conducting Tests

After a few years of dormancy, Moncton-based medical technology company Picomole is once again in operation and developing its breathalyzer device that detects early signs of cancer.

In partnering with the New Brunswick health authority Horizon Health Network, Picomole will test its device in a study, involving 100 lung-cancer patients and 100 controls, to further develop the core screening

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Jobs of the Week: HeyOrca,Envenio

In our Jobs of the Week column today, we’re highlighting openings with HeyOrca in St. John’s and Envenio in Fredericton.

HeyOrca is a Newfoundland Software-as-a-Service startup that built a social media planner specifically for marketing agencies. It’s hiring a Sales Development Representative via its New Grad Program.

Envenio, also a SaaS company, developed a program that lets basic computers

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Innovacorp’s $2M LightSail Bet Fails

LightSail Energy, the Silicon Valley cleantech company co-founded by Dartmouth-born Danielle Fong, has shut down, meaning Innovacorp will write off its $2-million investment in the company.

Based in Berkeley, Calif., LightSail was working on an energy storage product that used compressed air infused with water vapour that could drive wind turbines during periods of low wind. The publication

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