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NBIF Names Breakthru Semi-Finalists

  • Feb 03, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced the semi-finalists for its 2019 Breakthru Competition, which will award more than $500,000 in prize money next month.

The New Brunswick early-stage venture capital organization holds the

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Job of the Week: SDR at Harbr

  • Feb 03, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today showcases a position as a Sales Development Representative at Halifax’s Harbr, which makes software for the construction industry.

Harbr, which has made a commitment to gender parity in its hiring, has developed a

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SolarAssist To Help NS Go Solar

  • Feb 03, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Nova Scotians can now access a free, interactive online tool to help them assess their solar potential and calculate how much they’d save by installing solar panels.

SolarAssist is a new web platform that gives Nova Scotians the tools and

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Numus Backs Spain’s Nodalblock

  • Jan 31, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

When the Royal Spanish Football Federation announced this week that it was adopting a blockchain-based ticket distribution system, it brought in a tech company that is partly based in Halifax.

The federation – whose official name is the Real

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LeBlanc, Beaton Join Innovacorp Board

  • Jan 31, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp has named Nicole LeBlanc, Director of Investments and Partnerships at Sidewalk Labs, and women's leadership advocate Eleanor Beaton to its board of directors.

The Nova Scotia early-stage venture capital group issued a statement Thursday

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The Seasoning of PEI’s Ecosystem

  • Jan 30, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The pillars of a startup ecosystem – working spaces, university, funding agency, support organizations, network of mentors – have been in place for well over a year. A recent visit to the P.E.I. capital showed how these components are now maturing.

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Two NS Companies in Cleantech 100

  • Jan 30, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Two fast-growing Nova Scotian companies have been named to the 2019 Global Cleantech 100, an international list of companies deemed most likely to solve clean technology challenges.

Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, which is working to

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Yuill Heads To Peterborough, Ont.

  • Jan 29, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Martin Yuill will step down as the head of Charlottetown-based Emergence life sciences incubator next month to head the new Cleantech Commons in Peterborough, Ont.

Under Yuill’s leadership, Emergence has grown into a business development support

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Innovacorp, NBIF Back Propel with $1M

  • Jan 29, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are putting up a total of $1 million to help companies in Phase 2 of Propel’s Incite accelerator cover the cost of executing their sales strategy.

The Nova Scotia and New Brunswick early-stage

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Racki Launches Book at Volta Tonight

  • Jan 29, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Those who know Kyle Racki as a Software-as-a-Service entrepreneur may be surprised to know about a project he did way back in grade school. The guy who would become the CEO of Halifax-based Proposify had to interview someone who held a job he’d like

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Bursity To Help Finding Scholarships

  • Jan 27, 2019
  • Avery Mullen

A team of students from Nova Scotia Community College is building an online platform to address a problem they know well: the cost of higher education.

Bursity.ca helps to match users to scholarships for which they are eligible, and automate the

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Job of the Week: Swept Account Exec

  • Jan 27, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax’s Swept, which makes software for the janitorial sector, is searching for an Account Executive, which is our Job of the Week today.

Swept makes simple software designed specifically for commercial cleaners. Its mobile and web-based

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