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Scale-Up Hub To Hold Info Sessions

  • Jan 29, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Side Door Partners with SXSW

  • Jan 28, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Please Help Us Help Australia

  • Jan 28, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

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

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UNBSJ Opens Uptown MBA Centre

  • Jan 27, 2020
  • Mark Leger, Huddle

 

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

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5 Winners In Sprint Competition

  • Jan 26, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

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

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NBIF Backs Concrete with $500K

  • Jan 24, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has invested $500,000 in Concrete Ventures, the Halifax-based venture capital firm that began investing in early-stage Atlantic Canadian companies last year.

Fredericton-based NBIF said in a statement that it

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A Chat with Britain’s Lord Flight

  • Jan 23, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

With one eye on the cell phone before him, Lord Flight launched into a promotion of a subject dear to his heart – investment tax credits as a means of encouraging entrepreneurship.

I had come to his home in Westminster to interview him, and he

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InspectAR Gets $850K in Funding

  • Jan 22, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based InspectAR Augmented Interfaces Inc., whose technology helps to simplify the production of printed circuit boards, has received an $850,000 investment from two American companies.

The young company, which grew out of the engineering

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Remsoft Names 2 New Directors

  • Jan 22, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based Remsoft, which uses data analytics to aid forestry companies, has promoted two executives to director positions to upgrade its data and analytics services and its sales team.

The company announced this week that Marie Eve Fillion

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Early-Stage Programs Now Open

  • Jan 22, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Now that we’re well into January, there are programs and funding initiatives for entry-level entrepreneurs opening up around the region.

There is an endless parade of budding entrepreneurs who need to test their ideas in early-stage programs and

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Kula Teams Up with Terminus

  • Jan 22, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Kula Partners, a marketing agency serving business-to-business manufacturers across North America, has become the first manufacturing-focused agency to partner with Terminus, the world’s leading account-based marketing, or ABM,

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Please Help Us With Our Survey

  • Jan 21, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Today we are launching our survey to capture data on the Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2019, and we’re asking all founders in the region to take two minutes to complete our 14-question survey.

We know how busy people are, so we have made

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