Romanow To Head Navigate Event

Navigate Startup House’s Island Entrepreneurs Exposition will feature a keynote speech by Clearbanc co-founder and TV personality Michele Romanow.

The conference was originally planned to be held in Sydney, where Navigate is based. The event is now slated to be held online on June 24 and 25.

Romanow’s Clearbanc gives loans to e-commerce startups to fund their online advertising. She is also a

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Office Life Has No New Normal

Workplaces are opening up, but not everyone is returning to their former office or even their former job. Remote working is increasing competition for talent and is leading some Atlantic Canadians to ditch local employers in favour of others based elsewhere, including Silicon Valley.

Remote working also means that staff who’ve been given the permanent option of working from home may choose not

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FoodByte Sales Up 30% Since March

Halifax food safety startup FoodByte has seen its revenue increase by about a third since March, with more growth on the horizon.

The company sells regulatory compliance-tracking software for food producers, who CEO Sean Pindar said in an interview were under pressure from increasingly stringent World Health Organization guidelines even before COVID-19.

The WHO recently shifted its strategy for

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Jobs: Dash Hudson, Adaptiiv

Our Jobs of the Week column today showcases Halifax-based Biotech company Adaptiiv Medical Technologies' search for a Medical Physicist and social media analytics company Dash Hudson's opening for a Senior Full Stack Developer.

Adaptiiv, which raised $3.4 million in equity financing earlier this year, has developed a system that 3D prints a bolus – a piece of plastic that is placed over the

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Bursity To Aid African-American Students

Bursity, which helps post-secondary students find and apply for financial assistance, will launch its online platform for the United States market in 12 weeks, exclusively targeting African-Americans at first.

The Halifax-based social venture has pivoted to focus its efforts on racialized communities – a move spurred by increasing public concern about the welfare of minority groups.

Bursity’s

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DNS Names Sumarah CEO

Wayne Sumarah has been named the new Chief Executive Officer of Digital Nova Scotia, the association for the $2.5 billion information technology industry in the province.

The association issued a statement on Thursday announcing that its board of directors had selected Sumarah for the top executive position. He replaces Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia, who held the position from 2013 until early this year.

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GrowthWorks Atlantic To Wind Up

GrowthWorks Atlantic Venture Fund Ltd., one of the first venture capital funds in Atlantic Canada, has decided to wind up operations.

The fund has not raised new capital since 2014, and has been reducing its holdings in recent years as its portfolio companies exited, collapsed or found buyers for GrowthWorks’ shares.

Now its board has decided the time has come to wind up the fund entirely.

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Woodward Cup To Be Held June 16

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship will hold the Mel Woodward Cup pitching competition on June 16 – a virtual presentation of the biggest event on its calendar.

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the St. John's-based MCE postponed the Woodward Cup from the winter to June, and it will be a virtual event when it’s staged next Tuesday afternoon.  You can register to view it here.

While working at

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Propel, Navigate Sign MOU

Sydney’s Navigate Startup House has signed a memorandum of understanding with regional tech accelerator Propel, under which they will work together to encourage tech entrepreneurship in Cape Breton.

The two groups issued a statement saying they would collaborate to promote Propel programs that assist technology startups in Cape Breton.

“As Atlantic Canada's online accelerator, Propel takes

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