VidCruiter Aims to Triple Sales in 2016

Sean Fahey is keeping some impressive company today.

The Founder and CEO of Moncton-based HR software maker VidCruiter is in Washington, D.C., where he is attending the Select USA conference. He’s been meeting with the American ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman, and later in the day will hear a keynote address by President Barack Obama.

It’s interesting that Fahey is visiting the American

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Jobs of the Week: Celtx, KDP, Dynagen

Two sales and/or marketing positions and an opening for a full stack IoT developer headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Our offerings this week are located across the region. In St. John’s, Celtx, which makes software for the film industry, has an opening for an independent and energetic person as Vice-President of sales. Dynagen, which makes controllers to automatically start, monitor,

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Alex Gillis and the Wisdom of Youth

Young entrepreneur Alex Gillis was keen to share his views on education with the Prime Minister when they met earlier this month.

Gillis was one of eight young Canadians, (Halifax-based Sage Franch was another) to be invited to meet the PM to discuss how education has fueled their success.  

“I told the PM there isn’t enough creativity in our school curricula,” said Gillis, who two years ago

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Nature’s Way Applauded by BioNova

BioNova, the Nova Scotian life sciences industry association, has chosen Nature’s Way’s acquisition of Ascenta Health as its good news story of the past year.

The association last night held its annual Good News and Blues festivity – a chance to celebrate a good news story in the biotech sphere, and listen to blues played by members of the life sciences community. And it announced the best news

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Halifax Startup Group on Facebook

There’s a new social media platform to connect entrepreneurial Haligonians, and it uses that most ubiquitous of all networking sites, Facebook.

St. Mary’s University student Mike Cyr created a group on Facebook called the Halifax Startup Community on Friday and as of Wednesday it already had 160 members. You can find it here. In true Facebook fashion, it is a place where members can post

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Mariner Grows With Shift Energy Buy

Last autumn, Mariner Partners concluded a sizeable transaction the way it does much of its business – quietly.

The Saint John technology conglomerate works with a host of startups, and one that captured a lot of its attention was Shift Energy, an Industrial Internet of Things concern that provides automated energy controls to large facilities. Mariner and several of its principals had great

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1 Week Until Atlantic Venture Forum

The Atlantic Venture Forum, the conference that aims to link Atlantic Canadian startups with investors, has issued a last call to register for the event that starts one week from today in Halifax.

Critical Path Group, which is organizing the event, says people hoping to attend still have time to register here.

The organizers said that at least 39 investment and tech support groups will attend

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Our Report on Scaling Is Out

When the Halifax startup Proposify wanted to tell the world how it had grown in 2015, it put out a press release with some pretty gaudy numbers.

Founded by tech entrepreneurs Kevin Springer and Kyle Racki, Proposify had already been going for half a decade with the goal of producing a Software-as-a-Service product that would help agencies and others produce a better quality of pitches. It

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