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Jobs: Harbr, Dash Hudson, Forests

  • Feb 12, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Our job board is really full this week with a total of five openings from Dash Hudson, Harbr and Community Forests International.

Dash Hudson, a Software-as-a-Service company that helps clients optimize visual marketing strategies, hopes to hire a

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Supporting Forests in Canada, Africa

  • Feb 09, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Atlantic Canada’s woodlot owners could benefit from the growing tendency of jurisdictions to require businesses to offset their carbon emissions, said Daimen Hardie, executive director and a co-founder of Sackville, NB-based Community Forests

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China Program Launched in Halifax

  • Feb 09, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Institutions that foster education and innovation are banding together to run the China Program, a series of free events for innovators in the Halifax area.

The programming begins on Feb. 26 and runs on a further five days through March.  It is

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SMU Grad Chiang Dives Into Chatbots

  • Feb 09, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

When the chatbot-building company ChatFuel held a global competition for chatbot development recently, Halifax's Janet Chiang was delighted that her company, GoSky AI Digital Marketing, placed fourth. 

Taiwan-based GoSky is a global digital

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Curv’s Journey from Dal to Superbowl

  • Feb 08, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Shea Balish did at Super Bowl LII what Tom Brady couldn’t: he came away with a win.

Balish, who cut his entrepreneurial teeth at LaunchDal and Propel ICT, is now the Co-Founder and CEO of Toronto-based Curv, which uses artificial intelligence to

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Appili Raises $4.3M in Equity Funding

  • Feb 08, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics Inc., has raised $4.3 million in equity financing to further its operations and add to its number of drug candidates.

The company said in a press release it raised the money through a private

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Startup Weekend for Social Ventures

  • Feb 08, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The startup community in Fredericton is organizing Startup Weekend New Brunswick: Social Impact Edition, to take place Feb. 23 to 26.

Startup Weekends are part of a global movement in which people with an interest in starting a business come

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Prooflo Enhances Creatives’ Workflow

  • Feb 07, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Though his main goal is to help web designers collaborate more efficiently with their clients, Shane Long could provide a few lessons for entrepreneurs on bootstrapping.

Long is the Founder and CEO of Fredericton-based Prooflo, which is developing

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Stuart To Give Starting Point Keynote

  • Feb 06, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The Sobey School of Business at St. Mary's University this month will host the 2018 Starting Point Student Entrepreneurship Conference, a three-day event that brings together student entrepreneurs for a series of classes, seminars, and

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Four Join NS Cleantech Program

  • Feb 05, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Four Halifax clean technology startups have been accepted into Innovacorp’s CleanTech Development Program.

The provincial venture capital and innovation agency established the program to help early-stage companies meet technical and business goals.

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SMU Places 2nd at VCIC in Boston

  • Feb 05, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

A team from the Sobey School of Business had an exciting weekend at the Venture Capital Investment Competition in Boston, taking home the silver medal and beating teams from prestigious schools like Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and

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Ulnooweg Plots Tech-Ed for Natives

  • Feb 05, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The Ulnooweg Development Group, a non-profit organization that encourages economic development among the Mi’kmaq people, will lead an initiative to teach digital skills to First Nations children in Atlantic Canada.

Chris Googoo, the chief operating

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