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Applicants Invited for Planting Seed$

  • Mar 25, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Young Nova Scotian entrepreneurs with a good idea are invited to apply to this year’s 100 Entrepreneurs Planting Seed$ pitching contest for the chance to win $10,000.

Now in its fourth year, Planting Seed$ sells tickets to 100 people in the startup

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Acoubit Wins at COVE Demo Day

  • Mar 25, 2019
  • B. Jack Morse

Wireless underwater communications company Acoubit was voted most improved startup by its peers in Dartmouth-based Start-Up Yard last week, winning a $1000 Air Canada gift card.

While the gift card will prove useful, Co-Founder Colin Ross said he

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First Angel Network Closes Down

  • Mar 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

First Angel Network is shutting down after 14 years of channeling the money of wealthy investors into Atlantic Canadian startups.

As first reported by Betakit, Co-Founders Ross Finlay and Brian Lowe notified their friends and contacts on Friday

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Jobs: Full Stack Developer at CoLab

  • Mar 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today showcases an opening for a Full Stack Developer at St. John’s-based CoLab Software.

CoLab helps engineering teams better communicate and manage feedback when designing 3D models with its integrated platform, called

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Canum Wins $446K in Breakthru

  • Mar 21, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Canum Nanomaterials, which aims to disrupt the market for fullerenes, is one step closer to financing its pilot facility after it won awards worth $446,000 in the Breakthru competition last night.

The Fredericton company won the top prize at the

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The Vantec Model of Angel Funding

  • Mar 21, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

One of the country’s most successful angel communities showed its stuff earlier this month as the Vantec Angel Network held its monthly pitching session.

About 150 people – half of them investors – assembled in the VentureLabs offices in downtown

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Help Prevent Me From Nagging You!

  • Mar 21, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Please help me NOT pester you.

I’ve been bothering people lately about filling out our survey, and I’d love to stop. Once you fill out our survey, I promise to leave you alone for the rest of 2019. If enough people complete it, I won’t have to

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Canum To Disrupt Fullerene Market

  • Mar 19, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

As a graduate student at Rice University in Texas, Felipe Chibante was inspired by his professor Richard Smalley, a co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes.

On Thursday, Chibante and his co-founders in a

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Seeberger’s Sensory Friendly Forum

  • Mar 19, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Christel Seeberger dreams of one day overseeing a digital forum that will tell people about sensory friendly places and products.

She’s working toward that goal, and on Thursday night her Saint John-based company Sensory Friendly Solutions will be

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App Connects Youth to NS Professionals

  • Mar 19, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

The Halifax Partnership is launching Connector+, a web and mobile app for professional networking.

The app provides an online version of the Partnership’s award-winning Connector Program that allows business professionals to match, connect, and

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Punch Review Aims to Aid Farmers

  • Mar 18, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Ross Culberson considers himself a problem-solver, and he’s sure his startup Punch Review can solve a big problem for farmers.

Culberson is a sixth-generation farmer himself, overseeing a 340-acre potato operation near Hartland, NB, just north of

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VR Training for Hazardous Industries

  • Mar 18, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Better Than Reality asks a simple but important question: How do you train the younger generation to safely participate in high-risk industries?

Its three co-founders believe the answer is virtual reality.

The company has been co-founded by three

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