EOceans in Washington Maritime Blue Accelerator

Halifax’s eOceans, which is developing an online platform for gathering ocean data, has joined the latest cohort of the Seattle-based Washington Maritime Blue accelerator.

The company’s Founder and CEO Christine Ward-Paige is the only remote member of the 11-team cohort, joining the program online each day. But she will travel to Seattle in April for the closing presentation to the Maritime Blue

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Propel Incite Phase I Seeks Entries

Propel, the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator, is seeking IT startups to participate in the coming cohort of its Incite Phase I program, which helps entrepreneurs establish their product-market fit.

The pan-regional organization in 2018 launched its Incite accelerator – a two-phase virtual program for early-stage tech startups across the region.

Because the Incite curriculum is delivered

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Battling Cancer, Kevin Stephens Steps Back from Career Cinch

Entrepreneurship is notoriously tough on founders’ health. Kevin Stephens, founder of Career Cinch, is walking a rough path: he’s fighting a rare cancer and has had to withdraw from Halifax’s Volta accelerator, but he’s sharing his struggles on social media in order to connect with others.

Fredericton-based Stephens has been developing Career Cinch, a Software-as-a-Service product that uses

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Scale-Up Hub To Hold Info Sessions

The Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge project is organizing a series of information sessions to highlight the advantages of the program, which helps scaling tech companies grow in the Boston area.

Sessions are now scheduled for Halifax and Moncton next month, and will include past participants describing their experiences with the program. Tanya Bellefontaine, Business Development Manager for USA and

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Side Door Partners with SXSW

Concert venue marketplace Side Door has inked a deal with South by Southwest under which the Halifax company will organize short concert tours for bands participating in the Texas-based music festival.

Side Door matches musical artists with hosts who have space for them to perform and takes 10 percent of the venues’ gross profits as payment. The venues can be peoples’ homes or other intimate

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Please Help Us Help Australia

We’re absolutely thrilled with the response we’ve received to our survey campaign this year, and that we’ve already passed one-quarter of our target for help with Australian wildfire relief.

Last week, we launched our annual survey, which helps us compile data on the Atlantic Canadian startup community. And we added a new feature this year: for every survey response we accept by Feb. 3, we will

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UNBSJ Opens Uptown MBA Centre

 

More than 400 people gathered in the old Scotiabank building on King Square in Saint John on Thursday for the official opening of the MBA program that has been relocated uptown from the University of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus in Tucker Park.

MP Wayne Long, on hand to announce that the Atlantic Canadian Opportunities Agency contributed $750,000 to help facilitate the move, said it’s

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5 Winners In Sprint Competition

Innovacorp has awarded a total of $125,000 to five winners of its latest Sprint Competition, which provides development capital to early-stage startups in Nova Scotia.

The Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency on Thursday announced the five winners of the 2020 competition, which received 41 applications from across the province. Ten companies were shortlisted to pitch to

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