CareerBeacon Buys Ruutly

Moncton-based online recruitment company CareerBeacon has bought Toronto’s Ruutly, which allows employers to create interactive job ads.

Co-founders Yves Boudreau and Benoit Bourque started what's now CareerBeacon in 2014 to make backend software for online job boards. The company was originally called Qimple, but has since undergone two rebrandings, with the latest having been to adopt the name

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Fraser To Head NPC Ventures

Malcolm Fraser, the last CEO of Innovacorp, has taken a new position as Managing Director of NPC Ventures, the new venture capital arm of Charlottetown-based Natural Products Canada.

NPC Ventures aims to be a $50 million fund that invests in companies making products out of natural materials, with a special emphasis on nutrition, human and animal health and agtech. The fund now has $20 million

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Here’s why you should attend Entrevestor Live

Entrevestor Live is the best opportunity you’ll find to hear how to build a successful company in Atlantic Canada.

In just three hours, you can hear from 10 East Coast companies that have raised a total of $200 million, and they’ve done it by building operations here in Atlantic Canada.

Entrevestor Live will take place on the afternoon of Oct. 20 – a live event that showcases success in the

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Oceantech: OLF, Telus Partner on Education

The Richmond, BC-based Ocean Legacy Foundation, or OLF has announced it is partnering with telecom giant Telus on a public awareness campaign about plastic pollution in oceans.

Founded in 2013 and helmed by Executive Director Chloe Dubois, the OLF funds research on reducing ocean plastics, as well as advocacy work, research and development for waste management systems and cleanup projects to

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Black Startup Project Gaining Traction

Awareness of the education and support offered free by the Black Startup Project is growing among BIPOC founders who are taking advantage of the training and mentoring available from the Halifax-based network.

Upcoming workshops will look at how to start and grow your own business and how to solve customer needs. The information is also available online. Entrepreneurs can also attend mentoring

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A Note to our Readers

As a remotely operated business, we rely on our home Internet  connection and we're now working without Internet. 

Our Internet connection was knocked out after Fiona hit and we're working to get it restored. Eastlink has told us we will likely be back online on Oct. 13, and we're hoping everything will be running smoothly by that date. Avery Mullen is fully online and dutifully continuing to

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