A pair of opportunities at our job board partner Alongside headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Moncton-based Alongside is looking for a Technical Project Coordinator and a Junior Designer, while Halifax-based Dash Hudson is in the market for a Sales Development Representative.

Alongside offers a hiring platform whose goal is to help small and medium-sized businesses find the perfect

Scott Burke smiles as he tells the story of how he came up with the name for his company’s flagship product, Groundhog.

Burke is the CEO of Halifax-based BlockCrushr Labs, which has been experimenting with various cryptocurrency and blockchain products. Last year, it went through two international accelerators, raised US$625,000 (C$825,000) in equity funding and came up with a product that lets

Venn Innovation is looking for applicants for the next cohort of its month-long competitive intelligence workshop led by Jonathan Calof.

Venn, which supports innovation businesses, is offering the course at its Moncton headquarters with the goal of helping companies assess their competitive marketplace. This will be the sixth time that the startup house has offered the program.

Competitive

After receiving surprisingly strong results from its first clinical trials, Halifax-based PhotoDynamic has altered its business strategy to build up more value in the company before contemplating an exit.

PhotoDynamic is developing a device that uses natural extracts from a wild Nova Scotia plant to erase heavy plaque buildup on teeth. Last spring, it took the device through a two-week clinical

Entrepreneurs with early-stage technology startups are invited to apply for this winter’s Evolution program at the Genesis Centre in St. John’s.

Evolution is the innovation hub’s pre-incubator program. The eight-week intensive is designed for young tech start-ups which have less than $1 million in annual revenue and have yet to develop a minimum viable product.

With experiential learning at its

Travis McDonough, the CEO of Halifax-based health data company Kinduct Technologies, has been named to the first ever Sports Leadership Board, an international body that aims to solve problems in sports technology.

Kinduct has developed a platform that provides the world’s largest collection of sports-related health data to athletes, coaches, trainers and sports medicine professionals.

There are still a few days left to apply for the winter 2019 Venture Validation Program, or VVP, for early-stage ventures in Saint John.

VVP is the most popular of the Navigator programs and services offered by Enterprise Saint John for startups in Greater Saint John.

“The VVP is a 13-week cohort-based program that helps entrepreneurs with just an idea develop their concept into something they

The investment tax credit discussion in Atlantic Canada has been intensifying lately, and now Senator Colin Deacon is taking up the cause.

These provincial taxation measures give private investors a tax break if they invest in approved companies. All four Atlantic provinces now offer these credits, as do most Canadian provinces and American states.

Players in the startup community have been

The University of New Brunswick has opened applications for its Summer Institute, its accelerator known for helping consumer product companies reach their market.

Applications for the 2019 cohort are open until Feb. 15 and can be found here.

The 2019 program, which will run from April 29 until July 19, will grant five to seven participants a stipend for living expenses, prototyping grants, and

When Halifax-based Harbr announced its $1.75 million funding round in March, there were some unexpected names on the list of investors.

The company, which is developing an artificial intelligence product for the construction industry, said the co-lead was Halifax developer George Armoyan, whose interests include Geosam Capital and Clarke Inc. Other investors included such construction industry