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Ropeless Traps Could Save Whales

  • May 23, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

One hallmark of Canada's East Coast is the bright, fluorescent buoys that fisherman release across our region’s oceans, freckling the Atlantic shorelines. But the ropes that link the buoys to the lobster and crab traps below are deadly hazards for

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Manning Awards’ Short List Revealed

  • May 23, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation has announced the three Atlantic Canadian companies whose founders are in the running for the $145,000 in cash prizes to be distributed later in the year.

The foundation said this week the Atlantic Canadian

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Greenlaw Returns with Brunvalley

  • May 22, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Having sold his last company Brovada for US$15.2 million in 2015, Karl Greenlaw is back in the startup game with a new fintech company called Brunvalley Cloud Solutions Inc.

The Quispamsis, NB-based company, which plans to use artificial

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NBIF Leads Avrij’s $1.2M Round

  • May 22, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Avrij Analytics, a Fredericton- and Ottawa-based sports analytics startup, has closed an equity funding round worth $1.2 million, led by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

NBIF said in a statement it invested $500,000 in the round, which also

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Alongside Works With CareerBeacon

  • May 22, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

CareerBeacon, Atlantic Canada’s leading job board, has teamed up with Moncton-based Alongside to launch an updated recruitment tool that focuses on mobile devices.

The job site, which is owned by the Irving family’s media company, Brunswick News

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Bringing VR to the Eye Doctor

  • May 22, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Virtual reality and augmented experiences have revolutionized entertainment and gaming industries. Now, Halifax entrepreneur Ryan Cameron is working on bringing this technology to a clinical setting.

His company Electric Puppets uses VR and

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Job of the Week: Sendwithus

  • May 22, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

A Software-as-a-Service startup in Victoria, British Columbia is our lone posting in our Jobs of the Week column today.

Sendwithus is a communications platform designed for email management by providing a centralized hub for email creation and

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Easy Golf Aligns with Association

  • May 18, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

When Todd Chant was developing his software for golf tournaments, he was worried about the narrow path to market. But he’s come up with a strategy that broadened his path to the width of the friendliest fairway.

Chant is the Co-Founder and CEO of

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Inboundli’s New Home in Halifax

  • May 18, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Gene Sobolev, the CEO of Innovacorp’s newest resident company Inboundli, was torn between three Canadian cities when deciding where to relocate from Berlin, Germany. The Start-Up Visa program put Halifax on top, and Sobolev moved his content

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BDC Lends $140M on East Coast

  • May 17, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Over the last 12 months, Atlantic Canadian businesses, including high-growth ventures like TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture, have received over $140 million in financing from the Business Development Bank of Canada.

The money is part of the bank’s

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5 Teams Split $125K at Volta Cohort

  • May 17, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Volta Labs on Wednesday night awarded $125,000 to five startups – including two from outside the Halifax area – in the second Volta Cohort pitching competition.

Backed by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, BDC Capital and Innovacorp, the

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Highline Relaunches Female Funders

  • May 17, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Highline BETA of Toronto has announced the relaunch of Female Funders Angel Academy, a national program that will help women become angel investors.

Highline, which supports and invests in new ventures, last year bought Female Funders and is now

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