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Smart Skin in $4.5M Funding Deal

  • Jul 16, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based Smart Skin Technologies has received about $4.5 million in funding to help develop new quality assurance products for the pharmaceutical and beverage industries and expand its markets.

The 11-year-old company has developed a

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Bulletproof Wins Microsoft Award

  • Jul 16, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Bulletproof, a Fredericton tech services company specializing in cybersecurity, has won the 2019 Microsoft Canada Modern Workplace Innovation Partner of the Year IMPACT Award.

The award recognizes a partner that delivers value to customers through

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3D Planeta Books Sales, Eyes Round

  • Jul 15, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

As it makes inroads into its key markets of defense and emergency response, 3D Planeta is prepping to approach investors late in the summer in the hopes of raising more than $750,000.

Fredericton-based 3D Planeta has developed an online platform

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BioInnovation Challenge Opens

  • Jul 15, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

BioNova is calling for early-stage life sciences startups from Atlantic Canada to enter the 2019 BioInnovation Challenge, or BIC, which will take place Nov. 5 and 6 at Pier 21 in Halifax.

Now in its ninth year, BIC is the pitching competition held

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NATI To Release New Strategy

  • Jul 14, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Technology and Innovation, with a new name and a new CEO running the show, is on the cusp of releasing a new strategy that will focus on home-grown companies and talent.

For years, NATI has been the

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Jobs : Protocase, Dash Hudson

  • Jul 14, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Our Jobs of the Week column today showcases openings for an R&D Software Developer at Protocase in Sydney and a Customer Success Team Lead at Dash Hudson in Halifax.

Established in 2001, Protocase makes custom electronic enclosures. It focuses on

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Motryx Wins Women’s Fund Grant

  • Jul 11, 2019
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based Motryx, which produces sensors that monitor the storage conditions of blood samples during transport, has been awarded a $97,500 grant from the federally funded Women Entrepreneurship Strategy.

CEO Franziska Broell, who holds a PhD in

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Panag Receives $500K ACOA loan

  • Jul 11, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Panag Pharma Inc., which is developing cannabis-based pain treatments, has received a $500,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Business Development Program.

The funding comes eight months after Panag was purchased for as much

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ACOA Lends Rimot $600K

  • Jul 10, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based Rimot, whose technology helps to monitor remote infrastructure, has received a $600,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to help with international sales and marketing.

ACOA issued a statement on Wednesday,

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Startups Hired Strongly Last Quarter

  • Jul 10, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

According to data produced by LinkedIn, Atlantic Canadian innovation companies were on a hiring rampage last quarter.

Concrete Ventures CEO Patrick Hankinson posted an item online Tuesday night saying that LinkedIn data shows that Atlantic Canadian

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NYC’s Watzan Expands in Halifax

  • Jul 09, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Watzan is a profitable, fast-growing Software-as-a-Service company launched in New York in 2014 that is actively growing its development and sales teams – in Halifax.

Five-year-old Watzan offers a content-curation site for medical journals, and CEO

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$4M To Aid Women Entrepreneurs

  • Jul 09, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The federal government on Monday announced grants totalling $4 million to support the work of two Atlantic Canadian organizations that promote entrepreneurship by women.

The government said it would give $2.1 million to the Centre for Women in

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