Eyeing a Platform for Social Games

A young New Brunswick company is on the cusp of getting the data it needs to assess whether its new video game is effective in helping children cope with anxiety issues.

The company is Fredericton-based Reframe Games, and its video game is called Guide. It has been testing the game with young people, mostly nine to 13-year-olds, at eight clinics in the Fredericton area.

The company’s six-member

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Agyle inks BCIP Contract with AAFC

Real-time data collection is quickly becoming the gold standard for record keeping across all industries. And Agyle Intelligence, a provider of a real-time operational intelligence platform, is helping set this new standard in Agricultural and Ag-Food processing industries.

Agyle, which is based in Scotchfort Prince Edward Island, is a mobile software for data input and collection for supply

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CoLab launches Beta

St John’s-based CoLab Software released the beta version of its collaboration platform this week.

CoLab helps engineering teams better communicate and manage feedback when designing 3D models with its integrated platform, called Gradient.

The platform lets engineers share input on a design model, which is a process normally done through a convoluted string of emails, spreadsheets and other

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The BIC Semi-Finalists

Eight companies have been chosen to compete in this year’s BioInnovation Challenge, a regional health and life sciences business competition hosted by BioNova.

The competition will go down on Nov. 7 at BioPort 2018, BioNova’s annual conference for the life-science industry at the Halifax Convention Centre.

The BIC is one of the longest running business competitions in the Atlantic region. Since

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Eyesover Lands $200K from NBIF

Eyesover Technologies, a provider of opinion tracking and targeting software, has received a $200,000 equity investment from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, as part of a $450,000 funding round.

In addition to the NBIF investment, the Fredericton-based company also received angel investment and a grant from National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program,

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Social Media Event Set for Sydney

Cape Breton’s burgeoning startup community will host a one-day seminar next month in which experts from Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. will provide instruction in online marketing.

The event, to be held Sept. 14, is called Social Media Sydney: A World of Online Marketing. It’s designed to help entrepreneurs and others reach out to potential clients in their community or around the world.

“This

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Jobs of the Week: SomaDetect

SomaDetect, a Fredericton-based company that produces an in-line sensor that measures and collects data on critical indicators of milk quality, has various job postings in our Jobs of the Week column today.

The company helps dairy farmers collect data to analyze cows milk to monitor health and milk quality. This year has been good to SomaDetect. In March, the company expanded its operations to

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Intersect Seeks IT Problem-Solvers

Innovacorp on Wednesday in Sydney will unveil its first-ever Intersect Challenge, which aims to introduce potential startup entrepreneurs to a bona fide business that is looking for a solution to a problem.

The Intersect Challenge allows owners of an existing business to present a problem they're dealing with. The competition then asks aspiring entrepreneurs to pitch a solution that uses digital

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Startup Community Keeps Growing

Since April, there’s been a post-it on the window frame beside my desk that has only a number and a word written on it. It reads: “486 companies”.

Actually, when I first stuck it up, it read “485 companies”, but I had to add one so I took a black marker and changed the 5 to a 6.

The number 486 became really important to me because it was the number of Atlantic Canadian startups I had identified

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