CarbonCure Client List Passes 80

Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, creator of a process that buries carbon dioxide in concrete, has partnered with St. Louis-based Breckenridge Material Company and Eastern Missouri Concrete to lift its number of concrete-producing partners above 80.

The new partnerships allow the American companies to recycle waste carbon dioxide into concrete to increase its environmental, material, and

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Rovault Plans Pilot for Its Seafood Tech

Halifax-based RovaultAI has designed a marine camera solution that could potentially save $2 million per year for some of the region’s seafood plants.

The algorithm-based visual recognition software is specifically designed for the oceans sector and identifies species based on size, growth and health. Rovault plans to integrate its technology into shrimp processing plants to help increase the

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Trispectra Aims To Help Fix Outages

Trispectra is a Fredericton startup dedicated to solving a problem common to pretty well every electrical utility – quickly finding and identifying faults on their grids.

The company is made up of a trio of University of New Brunswick engineering grads who have embraced the work of New Brunswick’s Smart Grid Initiative in a big way. They are working on a solution that will help utilities find

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Acadia Award $10K to Startups

Three environmental studies students at Acadia University won $6000 to help launch their business Highway 101, a mobile food truck that serves healthy produce sourced from local farms.

Emilia Ganslandt, Gillian Hollebone and Alisha Christie won first place at the LaunchBox Start It Up program last month, in which 16 teams developed business solutions to solve industry problems in just 28 hours.

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Jobs of the Week: Dash Hudson, NBIF

In our Jobs of the Week column today, we’re highlighting Dash Hudson’s search for a Sales Development Representative and New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s opening for an Investment Analyst.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson is a software-as-a-service company that developed a platform to help companies optimize their visual marketing strategies. It is looking for a Sales Development Representative to

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Smart Grid Project Gains Steam in NB

While Atlantic Canada’s nautical types are pushing ahead with the oceans supercluster proposal, there’s another major initiative in the region that has captured less attention but still offers great potential.

Centred in New Brunswick, the Smart Grid Initiative is developing a range of products that utilities can use in their grids to accommodate the coming revolution in electricity production.

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Ashored Wins $3000 from LaunchDal

Ashored Innovations, a young venture that aims to help automate the lobster and crab fisheries, captured the $3,000 first prize at Dalhousie University’s Collide Fall 2017 Pitch Competition on Thursday night.

LaunchDal, the university’s entrepreneurship program, awarded a total of $6000 to three early-stage businesses at the event.

Ashored is developing an “intelligent buoy”, which can be used

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NBCC Offers Cybersecurity Program

The New Brunswick Community College has announced it will offer a one-year program in cybersecurity beginning next September. By introducing this advanced post-grad program at its Saint John Campus, NBCC, in partnership with CyberNB, aims to help meet growing demand for cybersecurity expertise in New Brunswick.

“This new program will provide graduates with the skills and knowledge that industry

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Aqualitis Set To Raise, Then Launch

Aqualitas, the Liverpool cannabis producer, is set to close a $6.5-million funding round with private investors next month, with the hopes of getting to market next year.

The close of this funding round will bring the total equity capital raised by CEO Myrna Gillis to about $11.5 million — an audacious number for a three-year-old Nova Scotia startup. But the interesting part of the story — at

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