Data Presentation in St. John’s Nov. 6

The Entrevestor fall roadshow will touch down in St. John’s next month with a presentation of our latest data report at the Emera Innovation Exchange on Nov. 6.

As well as producing daily news on Atlantic Canadian startups, Entrevestor gathers and analyzes data on the sector, which we produce as a report each year. We have been reporting lately on the findings of the 2017 report on

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MTI, Satair Sign Eyewear Deal

Metamaterial Technologies Inc. of Dartmouth has partnered with global aerospace industry supplier Satair to produce goggles that can protect pilots and others from laser attacks.

MTI, which makes special materials that can alter the properties of light, is already working on a project with Airbus to produce linings for cockpit windows that can filter out lasers. Now, to get to markets more

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SomaDetect Lands Funds from DFA

SomaDetect has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from the Dairy Farmers of America as the AgTech company moves closer to completing its seed round.

The parties have not released the amount invested by DFA. However, Co-Founder and CEO Bethany Deshpande said in an interview that the funding is part of a larger round that has yet to close. The big impact of the DFA funding is it strengthens

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The TME Conference’s Best Quotes

An enthusiastic crowd attended the UNB TME conference titled The Future of Innovation in Canada this weekend, learning about innovations in such fields as transportation, cybersecurity, and entrepreneurship.

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship – commonly known as UNB TME – held the conference to celebrate the program’s 30th

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3 NBers Win Startup Canada Awards

Lisa Williams, Founder of Unicare Home Health Care, has been named Startup Canada’s 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year, one of three New Brunswickers to capture national awards from the organization this year.

The umbrella organization for entrepreneurship in Canada held its national Startup Awards gala in Ottawa on Thursday, followed Friday with its Startup Canada Day on the Hill festival at the

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VidCruiter Eyes 100%+ Growth Again

Moncton-based VidCruiter is plotting to expand its marketing department in the coming year as CEO Sean Fahey is determined to improve the company’s revenue growth.

In an interview at the company’s headquarters on Wednesday, Fahey admitted the profitable provider of video interview software had a slowdown in revenue growth in the fiscal year ended June 30.

Sales growth decelerated, he said, to

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Sara Burns Fund Raises $136K

The Sara Burns Police Memorial Fund has raised $136,000 during a one-month donation-matching campaign supported by Fredericton IT and cybersecurity company, Bulletproof

All of the funds raised by the campaign will go to helping people in need in New Brunswick.

“We were really inspired to be a part of this effort to make a lasting impact on the community with a fund like this,” said

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Talem Health Eyes Paid Pilots in 2019

After two years of bootstrapping, Talem Health Analytics of Sydney is eyeing a paid pilot project early in the new year that would bring in revenue and hopefully pave the way to investment.

Founded two years ago by physiotherapists Paul Travis and Matthew Kay, Talem has developed software that can help auto insurers understand the time and costs of an individual recovering from a car accident.

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Atlantic Canada SMEs poor adopters of digital technologies

Small business in Canada has a problem with adopting digital technologies, and one of the worst offenders is Atlantic Canada.

That is the finding of a new report by the Business Development Bank of Canada that assesses the digital maturity of small and medium-sized businesses in this country. It found that 15 percent of SMEs in Atlantic Canada could be considered digitally mature. That ranks

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