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Jobs: Marketing Exec at Adaptiiv

  • Mar 28, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Marketing Coordinator at Halifax-based medtech company Adaptiiv.

Adaptiiv, which raised $3.4 million in equity financing last year, has developed a system that 3D prints a bolus – a piece

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Université de Moncton To Host NB Power’s AI Centre

  • Mar 26, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

An investment of $2.2 million over four years will create the new NB Power Artificial Intelligence Centre, to be located on the Moncton campus of the Université de Moncton.

The Centre will leverage expertise at the Université de Moncton to improve

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Maskwiomin Eyes Sales This Year

  • Mar 25, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

By the end of this year, the Co-Founders of Cape Breton-based Maskwiomin hope to have a staff of up to 20 people producing traditional Mi'kmaq skincare products, and doing so in accordance with Indigenous business practices.

The company is

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REDspace Named Halifax Business of the Year

  • Mar 25, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

REDspace, the Bedford, NS, IT company that employs more than 200 people, captured the Business of the Year Award at the Halifax Business Awards on Thursday.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary last year, REDspace builds flexible platforms for global

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EduCode Signs Distribution Deal in Turkey

  • Mar 25, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Moncton-based EduCode Academy has signed a distributorship agreement with Sebit Education and Information Technologies, which will be the company’s representative in Turkey.

EduCode creates online courses that help children learn to code, and its

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Side Door’s Pivot Sparks Sales Boost

  • Mar 24, 2021
  • Brooklyn Connolly

When the pandemic hit last year, Laura Simpson knew she would have to change Side Door’s business model. What surprised the company’s Co-Founder and CEO was the resulting 3,000 percent increase in ticket sales.

Since 2017, the company had offered a

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Supercluster Unveils 3 New Projects

  • Mar 24, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Canada's Ocean Supercluster, which is dedicated to modernizing the country’s ocean economy, has announced three new projects based in Nova Scotia with a value of almost $10 million.

The Atlantic Canada-based organization issued three press releases

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FoodHack Honours Chinova’s Dhayagude

  • Mar 24, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Natasha Dhayagude, Co-Founder and CEO of Chinova Bioworks, a Fredericton-based company that uses mushrooms to reduce food waste, has had her work celebrated by FoodHack, a global network of food entrepreneurs and innovators.

Dhayagude is one of 80

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Outcast and Happy Planet Upcycle Smoothies

  • Mar 24, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based Outcast Foods, which makes powdered food products from rejected produce, has partnered with British Columbia smoothie producer Happy Planet Foods to combat food waste in a product range that uses upcycled fresh fruit and vegetables.

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Ulnooweg, Ignite strike Partnership

  • Mar 23, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Ignite Atlantic, Nova Scotia’s rural innovation organization, and the Indigenous entrepreneurship group Ulnooweg Development Group have formed a partnership to allow greater support for their members.

The partnership between Ulnooweg and Ignite is

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DNS Membership Tops 200

  • Mar 23, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Digital Nova Scotia, the association for the information technology sector in the province, has actually grown during the pandemic, and now boasts more than 200 members.

Since assuming the role of CEO last June, Wayne Sumarah has had to guide the

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PDC Mourns Heather Boyd-Kinnie

  • Mar 23, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Members of the startup community were saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Heather Boyd-Kinnie, the Funding Manager and Program Coordinator of the Pond-Deshpande Centre at the University of New Brunswick.

Boyd-Kinnie passed away at her home

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