The great and the good gathered at the Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax Wednesday evening to witness a substantial exercise in seed funding.

Officially, they were at the awards gala for the I-3 Technology Startup Competition, watching Sustane Technologies of Chester win $225,000 for several awards, including the grand prize.

But on a pragmatic level, what they saw was the culmination of a

Toronto-based CareGuide, which owns several websites that help people find care-givers, has made a strategic investment in Moncton-based recruitment technology company Qimple.

Qimple Founder and CEO Yves Boudreau confirmed the investment in an email on Thursday. The companies did not reveal the value of the investment.

Qimple, which is a graduate of the 500 Startups program in Silicon Valley, makes the hiring process easier for recruiters and applicants due to its applicant tracking system and proprietary candidate-scoring tool. The company also operates a range of job boards and hiring

Sustane Technologies Inc., a Chester-based cleantech company, was named the winner Wednesday of the biennial I-3 Technology Start-up Competition, which recognizes the best new innovative business in Nova Scotia.

The company, which received a total of $225,000 in the competition, developed a system that completely recycles municipal solid waste streams, eliminating the need for landfills.

Pablo Asiron, the former CEO of award-winning Industrial Internet of Things company RtTech Software of Moncton, has joined another Moncton-based business-to-business enterprise Masitek Instruments Inc. as executive vice-president of global business development.

Asiron was the founding CEO of RtTech, whose software helps industrial plants operate more efficiently.

During his tenure, the company

The fishing industry and technological innovation are being brought together in a competition that aims to solve problems for the fishing industry in Cape Breton and beyond.

Louisbourg Seafoods has launched a two-month contest, SEA++, that asks innovators to solve one or more of five problems.

The issues raised are diverse and cover issues of sustainability, safety and the business side of the

Proposify, a software-as-service company that streamlines the proposal process, saw a 1500 percent increase in recurring revenue and 709 per cent increase in customers during 2015.

The Halifax-based company’s software simplifies and enhances the process of writing proposals. It streamlines the process in the cloud with online proposal design templates that can easily be customized with text,

BDO Canada is looking for startups from across the country interested in pitching to venture capital investors at an event in Toronto on March 8.

The business consultancy and accounting firm is seeking applications for its first investor pitch day, which it calls Connecting with Venture Capitalists: Face to Face. Applications are open until Feb. 10 for the event, which will feature 10 startups pitching to at least four VC funds.

“We’re looking for some of the best startups across the country to be represented at this event, including both seed capital early stage startups as well as those

Singolar, a Wolfville, N.S., startup that uses advanced intelligence to help companies improve client interactions has been selected to attend the Canadian Technology Accelerator in Silicon Valley this winter.

The company – which now has two clients and is working on its first funding round – has developed algorithms that can help companies to better understand how to interact customers. It

Brilliant Labs and its partners are looking for high school students in the Maritime Provinces to pitch their ideas for a new product or service in the Superpower Challenge.

Several student teams or individuals from each participating province will win financial and mentor support worth as much as $5,000 to help them develop their idea into a working prototype or service.

Students are asked to propose innovative solutions to real-world problems -- and the solutions must include the use of technology. They must research a problem and develop a proposal to solve it in one of four categories:

Jobs of the Week is beginning February with a couple of opportunities at Halifax’s NewAE Technology Inc.

NewAE has developed technology to assist companies in finding the security weaknesses within their embedded hardware systems. The company is looking for a software engineer/programmer, as well as an electronics hardware engineer/designer.

We’re also highlighting this week opportunities for a