The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is our lone Job of the Week today.

The non-profit seeks a new Director of Research to help manage its growing portfolio of investments. The candidate must have a graduate degree from a recognized university program that ideally involved a research requirement, at least 10 years of relevant work experience and be fluent in both French and English. 

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Almost a decade after its first prototype drew national media attention, Roshell Industries is bringing its motorized ski accessory to the market.

Originally from Labrador, Roshell is the maker of the Skizee Woodsrunner, a motorized accessory that propels skiers through and over the snow. It’s been nearly a decade since the first prototype was built and it’s now available for preorder.

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Startup Canada last night announced 10 regional winners of its fifth annual Startup Canada Awards event. Held in Miramichi, N.B., the event celebrated the achievements of Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs, businesses and support organizations.

Winners included respected members of the community such as Dawn Jutla, the CEO and President of Peer Ledger in Halifax, who won the Woman Entrepreneur

Innovacorp has named the companies that have made the shortlist for this year's Spark Innovation Challenge, the province-wide contest for early-stage technologies companies. 

Judges in four regions reviewed 122 Spark submissions to come up with the shortlist below.  Winners, who will be announced next month, could win up to $50,000 and guidance from seasoned business professionals.

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When analyzing our data on the Atlantic Canadian startup community over the past few years, we’ve noticed that startups that collaborate with post-secondary institutions outperform the broader community. Once again, with our study of companies in 2017, we have found that innovation companies working with universities (and in a few cases with communities colleges) have stronger

FREDERICTON – This week, Fredericton-based startup accelerator Planet Hatch announced anew leadership team as it approaches its five-year anniversary. This includes appointing a new director, Adam Peabody.

Huddle chatted with Peabody about the impact Planet Hatch has had on New Brunswick business, where he plans to take it next, and more:

Planet Hatch has been around for about five years now,

Dartmouth- and Toronto-based EdTech company Squiggle Park has closed an $800,000 funding round in a deal that strengthens its relationship with Indigo Books and Music CEO Heather Reisman.

Squiggle Park, which has developed an online tool that helps children learn to read, said in a statement today that with the latest round it has raised a total of $1.03 million to date. The statement said the

Female leaders and diversity champions working in ICT were recognized last night during the Digital Diversity Awards presented by Digital Nova Scotia, a non-profit that focuses on the growth and development of Nova Scotia’s digital technologies industry.

“Since 1843, women have led major advances in programming and software development, yet today women still represent less than 25 percent of the

Students enrolled in the St. Mary’s University Masters of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation program may have noticed some changes in how they access the university's Durland Innovation Fund.

In a recent overhaul of its funding distribution, the MTEI program will invest in its student-led businesses through a venture capital model, moving away from its pitching competition. 

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Twelve companies from the Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic will head to Toronto this week to take part in the CDL Super Session – a celebration of the program’s graduates from across the country.

Operating out of Dalhousie University, the CDL-Atlantic just finished its first cohort, which began last December with 28 companies being mentored by some of the region’s top business leaders. The