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SeaChange Eyes Production by June

  • Dec 21, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

SeaChange Biochemistry, which extracts specialty chemicals from seaweed, is planning to begin production at its new facility in Clark’s Harbour, NS, by June.

Having won or placed prominently in a range of pitching competitions in the last two

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Ocean Project Targets Digital Twins

  • Dec 20, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a new $18 million project that aims to create “digital twins” for use in ocean-related industries.

The organization charged with developing new technology and an enhanced workforce for Canadian ocean

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Clean Leadership Applicants Sought

  • Dec 20, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based Clean Foundation is seeking host and student applicants for its Clean Leadership Summer Internship Program, a sustainability-focused youth employment program in Nova Scotia.

The group has partnered with provincial employers to

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Job of the Week: Dash Hudson

  • Dec 20, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column this week features an opening for a Customer Success Associate at Dash Hudson in Halifax.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media.

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After Sandpiper, Graham Joins Imaginal

  • Dec 17, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Eight months after being named Investment Principal of Sandpiper Ventures, Danielle Graham has taken two new jobs, becoming a partner of both the Halifax-based business advisory group Imaginal Ventures and the U.S. venture capital group Aligne

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Entrevestor’s Top 10 Stories of 2020

  • Dec 17, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Thursday night, Propel held its virtual Christmas party, at which the regional accelerator posted a video by me ranking the top 10 stories we've covered in 2020. 

Limiting the number of stories to 10 was difficult. For example, the accelerated

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SnapAP Announces Funding Close

  • Dec 17, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Moncton-based SnapAP, which makes payment software, has closed a “significant portion” of a funding round that it hopes will reach US$2 million (C$2.6 million). The money has come largely from angels in Israel.

The company, whose full name is Snap

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Scale Up Atlantic Canada Returns

  • Dec 16, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The TME program at the University of New Brunswick is looking for scaling companies to participate in the next cohort of Scale Up Atlantic Canada.

Two years ago, the Fredericton university teamed up with Boston-based Babson College – long

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Motryx Partners with Germany’s Aerocom

  • Dec 15, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Motryx, whose technology helps ensure the safe transport of blood samples, has struck a partnership with Germany’s Aerocom, a global leader in installing pneumatic tube systems in hospitals.

They will work together to distribute

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Vertiball Snags $420K on Dragons’ Den

  • Dec 15, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Vertiball, the Fredericton-based manufacturing concern, appeared on Dragons’ Den on CBC last week and walked away with a $420,000 investment by marketing whiz Arlene Dickinson.

Once the deal closes, Dickinson will have a 17 percent stake in the

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Halifax Innovation District in Global Network

  • Dec 15, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax Innovation District has joined a network of similar groups convened by the Global Institute on Innovation Districts, or GIID.

Innovation Districts are defined as highly productive and densely concentrated city areas where people develop

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Mabel Searching for Beta-Testers

  • Dec 14, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Having completed its rebranding exercise, Sydney-based Mabel Systems has developed the prototype of its inventory tracking system for food industries.

Formerly called Tracker Inventory Systems, the company helps companies in such segments as

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