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Romanow To Head Navigate Event

  • Jun 15, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

Navigate Startup House’s Island Entrepreneurs Exposition will feature a keynote speech by Clearbanc co-founder and TV personality Michele Romanow.

The conference was originally planned to be held in Sydney, where Navigate is based. The event is now

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Office Life Has No New Normal

  • Jun 14, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Workplaces are opening up, but not everyone is returning to their former office or even their former job. Remote working is increasing competition for talent and is leading some Atlantic Canadians to ditch local employers in favour of others based

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FoodByte Sales Up 30% Since March

  • Jun 14, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax food safety startup FoodByte has seen its revenue increase by about a third since March, with more growth on the horizon.

The company sells regulatory compliance-tracking software for food producers, who CEO Sean Pindar said in an interview

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Jobs: Dash Hudson, Adaptiiv

  • Jun 14, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Our Jobs of the Week column today showcases Halifax-based Biotech company Adaptiiv Medical Technologies' search for a Medical Physicist and social media analytics company Dash Hudson's opening for a Senior Full Stack Developer.

Adaptiiv, which

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Bursity To Aid African-American Students

  • Jun 11, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

Bursity, which helps post-secondary students find and apply for financial assistance, will launch its online platform for the United States market in 12 weeks, exclusively targeting African-Americans at first.

The Halifax-based social venture has

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DNS Names Sumarah CEO

  • Jun 11, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Wayne Sumarah has been named the new Chief Executive Officer of Digital Nova Scotia, the association for the $2.5 billion information technology industry in the province.

The association issued a statement on Thursday announcing that its board of

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GrowthWorks Atlantic To Wind Up

  • Jun 10, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

GrowthWorks Atlantic Venture Fund Ltd., one of the first venture capital funds in Atlantic Canada, has decided to wind up operations.

The fund has not raised new capital since 2014, and has been reducing its holdings in recent years as its

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Woodward Cup To Be Held June 16

  • Jun 09, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship will hold the Mel Woodward Cup pitching competition on June 16 – a virtual presentation of the biggest event on its calendar.

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the St. John's-based MCE postponed the Woodward Cup

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Propel, Navigate Sign MOU

  • Jun 09, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Sydney’s Navigate Startup House has signed a memorandum of understanding with regional tech accelerator Propel, under which they will work together to encourage tech entrepreneurship in Cape Breton.

The two groups issued a statement saying they

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CBGF, Innovacorp Invest in Proposify

  • Jun 09, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

With its annual recurring revenue hitting $8 million, Halifax-based Proposify has closed a substantial funding round led by Toronto-based Canadian Business Growth Fund, or CBGF.

The parties declined to reveal the size of the round, though CBGF says

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Ocean Startup Challenge Launched

  • Jun 08, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

The Ocean Startup Project, an initiative helmed by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, is accepting applications for a competition in which would-be entrepreneurs can compete to solve problems faced by oceans companies.

Donald Grant, the project’s

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Alliance Examines Biotech Labour Crunch

  • Jun 08, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

A new partnership between Atlantic Canadian governments, industry and post-secondary institutions is aiming to address tight labour supply in the biotech sector.

The federally backed Future Skills Centre has announced that it will invest $1.5

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