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VidCruiter Aids UNDP in Award

  • Mar 03, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The United Nations Development Programme has won an Innovation in Recruitment Award, using the software of Moncton-based video interview company VidCruiter.

The UN agency announced last week that it received the honor at the 15th annual Career

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Jobs of the Week: Code + Mortar

  • Mar 03, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Openings for Backend Web and Hybrid App Developers at Halifax-based Code + Mortar headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Code + Mortar is a development company that provides web apps, mobile apps and websites for its customers. The company

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Anaconda In #DisruptMining Finals

  • Mar 01, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

For the second year in a row, a company from Newfoundland and Labrador is a finalist for the US$1 million #DisruptMining competition.

Mining giant Goldcorp Inc. said this week that Anaconda Mining of St. John’s is one of three finalists in the

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Four Shortlisted for Manning Awards

  • Feb 28, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The heads of four Atlantic Canadian companies have been named to the short-list for the 2019 Ernest C. Manning Innovation Awards, which presents cash prizes of up to $100,000 to winners.

The award organizers this week announced a list of leaders

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Start-Up Yard Seeks Ocean Innovators

  • Feb 27, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Just months after opening, the cavernous COVE (Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship) building in Dartmouth is feeling lived in, with residents gathering over screens and sharing pizza. But there is room for more innovators and the newest

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The Changing Focus of Due Diligence

  • Feb 27, 2019
  • By Giles Crouch

In the heady days of the first dot-com boom, a sketch on a napkin and a sparkle in a coder’s eye could net a nice seed round from angel investors. Subsequent rounds, it seemed, would flow like chocolate at a fondue party.

Then the bubble burst and

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A Reminder to Complete our Survey

  • Feb 26, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Thank you very much to everyone who has already taken the time to fill out our 2018 survey. And we’re asking founders  and CEOs who haven’t yet got round to it to please take two minutes to fill it in.

Early next month, we will contact founders,

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ReelData Poised to Launch Pilots

  • Feb 26, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Matt Zimola and Hossein Salimian have post-graduate degrees in computer science, yet they have found themselves immersed in the world of aquaculture.

They are two of the co-founders of ReelData, a Halifax startup that uses artificial intelligence

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IdeaHub Accepts Seven Startups

  • Feb 26, 2019
  • B. Jack Morse

The Emera ideaHUB, Dalhousie University’s new incubator for companies building physical products, has accepted its first seven resident companies, and has room for more.

The goal of ideaHUB is to provide working space and mentorship for companies

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SMU Places 2nd Again at VCIC

  • Feb 24, 2019
  • Avery Mullen

For the second year in a row, a team of under-graduates from Saint Mary’s University's Sobey School of Business has placed second in the New England edition of the world’s largest venture capital competition.

Students from seventy universities

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Jobs of the Week: 2 at Dash Hudson

  • Feb 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Dash Hudson, the fast-growing visual marketing company, has a pair of openings at its Halifax headquarters, and they headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

The Halifax-based company has an opening for a Sales Development Representative and a

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AVSS Joins NASA Project in Reno

  • Feb 22, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

It’s a big deal when a startup finds a partner with global reach, but AVSS of New Brunswick has just found a partner whose operations extend to the far reaches of the galaxy.

Rothesay-based AVSS announced this week that it is working with the

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