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Tribe Networking in New Brunswick and Halifax

  • Nov 28, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Tribe Network, the Halifax-based support organization for BIPOC entrepreneurs, is holding two networking sessions in New Brunswick next week. They are:

Tribe at ConnexionWorks in Saint John, Dec 4, 5 to 7pm. The event is free. Register here.
Tribe

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Health Entrepreneurs Win in innovation Den

  • Nov 27, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

The second Innovation Den contest run by Halifax-based QEII Foundation and the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub has boosted three young health innovation companies with $170,000 of funds.

The contest was set up last year with money provided by

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IGNITE Recognized Again

  • Nov 26, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

As well as winning Nova Scotia’s recent Provincial Spotlight Award, rural innovation hub IGNITE Atlantic is celebrating taking the Science Champion Award.

The Provincial Spotlight Award, presented by Digital Nova Scotia, celebrates organizations

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Founders Should Understand Sales from the Start: Kent Summers

  • Nov 26, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Government grants are valuable but Atlantic Canada’s technical founders need to stop focusing on perfecting their products and understand their own sales propositions and strategies straight off the bat, says Kent Summers, a Boston-based B2B sales

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Tribute to Brian Flood Set for Today

  • Nov 24, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

A celebration of the life of Brian Flood, a co-founder of the pioneering cybersecurity startup Q1 Labs, will be held Monday, Nov. 25, at 5 p.m. at the Wu Conference Centre at the University of New Brunswick.

Flood, who passed away earlier this year

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Book Explores Frustrations of Today’s Manager

  • Nov 21, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Employees resistant to returning to the office, the changing face of AI, older and more experienced direct reports, and employee mental health are among the big issues challenging today’s managers, according to Modern Manager: Conquering the Five

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Rogers Wins with Plastic Solution

  • Nov 20, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Fresh off her big win at an international science contest, Dalhousie University student Dina Rogers is aiming to transform our relationship with plastic with a novel method of deconstructing waste, allowing plastic constituents to be re-used.

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Experience Ventures Coming to Region’s Students

  • Nov 20, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

A national program that pairs students with startups and businesses for work experience is set to bring more opportunity to the region’s students.

The Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax is now the

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Sandpiper, Tribe Make Progress on New Funds

  • Nov 19, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Two Atlantic Canadian investment groups that back under-represented founders are working on new funds that could bring millions of dollars to high-growth companies.

Tribe Network, the Halifax-based support organization for BIPOC entrepreneurs,

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Dan Oshodin joins Tribe as COO

  • Nov 18, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Tribe Network, the support organization for BIPOC founders, has named Dan Oshodin Chief Operations Officer.

Oshodin, formerly Growth Funding and Investment Strategy Manager at startup hub Volta, has experience helping entrepreneurs

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Atlantic Technology Summit Coming Up

  • Nov 15, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

The Atlantic Technology Summit will take place Nov. 20 in Halifax with the theme of Innovate, Integrate, Empower: Human-Centric Solutions for a Connected World.

The Keynote – Possibility Executed, Determining the Future of Your Organization in an

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InnovateNB Names Top Innovators

  • Nov 13, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Last night, the third InnovateNB celebration honoured innovators from New Brunswick’s economy and heard a keynote address by new premier Susan Holt.

The awards ceremoney in Moncton was preceded by an afternoon of wide-ranging discussions with an

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