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Jobs of the Week: Focus on Halifax
This week in Jobs of the Week, we’re featuring positions in Halifax, including a new posting by Norex and its Pursu.it division.
Pursu.it helps elite athletes find financial support through crowdfunding. The organization is developing a new
Innovacorp Awards $850K in I-3 Prizes
Innovacorp on Thursday awarded $850,000 to 15 Nova Scotian companies as the Nova Scotia innovation agency named the regional and sectoral winners of its I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition.
I-3 is the biennial competition for early stage companies
Data Analytics for the Forestry Sector
Big data and environmental sustainability have become hot topics in recent years. New Brunswick’s Remsoft has been analyzing big data for decades, a foresight that has made the company a world leader in land and forestry management.
The large
Ella Poised to Expand Into Toronto
Having been accepted into Toronto’s Fashion Zone in the autumn, Ella of Saint John is planning to launch its online marketplace for used clothes in Canada’s largest city in the spring.
Ella is a mobile app on which women can sell or buy slightly
Evolution Seeking St. John’s Startups
Early-stage entrepreneurs with an idea for a product, company or service are asked to apply for the winter 2016 Evolution program at the Genesis Centre at Memorial University in St. John’s.
The Evolution program is an eight-week intensive workshop
Maluuba Raises $9M Series A
Waterloo-based machine-learning company Maluuba said Wednesday it has closed a $9 million Series A funding round.
The company, whose technology helps machines to think, reason and communicate with human-like intelligence, said the venture capital
Global Game Jam Set for Volta
Volta Labs in Halifax next weekend will be the Nova Scotian base for the Global Game Jam, or GGJ, a worldwide weekend event that unites creative minds to develop games.
The 48-hour event will give participants a chance to develop video games, or
Four Hotspots in Ottawa’s Tech Policy
The symbolism of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to southern Ontario last week was tremendously important for his government because it gave important signals about its industrial strategy.
Trudeau toured the Toronto-Waterloo innovation
OnPoint Brings NFL Data to the Fans
Elisha Ferrara is a Canadian entrepreneur who wants NFL fans to have the same data on their cell phone that the sports announcers have in their broadcast booth.
For free.
Ferrara is the CEO of Kitchener, Ontario-based OnPoint Sports, whose mobile
Venn Partners with YEC in Moncton
Venn Innovation Inc. and Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge have entered a multi-year partnership to provide more opportunities for New Brunswick’s future entrepreneurs.
Under the partnership announced this month, Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge
Jobs of the Week: Fredericton Hiring
This week in Jobs of the Week, we’re featuring three positions in Fredericton, with TotalPave and CyberPsyc; and one in Brampton, Ontario with Prism Tradeshow Lighting.
TotalPave is a growth stage startup company that gives municipalities the
PM Opens Google’s Kitchener Office
Google opened its new engineering centre in Kitchener on Thursday, tripling the size of its staff and broadening its presence in one of the world’s great centres for technological talent.
The new company was officially opened by Prime Minister
