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Spring Loaded Shows its Impact

  • May 15, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Spring Loaded Technology on Tuesday used a press conference to show what its Levitation knee brace means to the people who use it --especially to users who suffer from osteoarthritis.

The manufacturer held the media event at its Dartmouth

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Sayle Awarded BCIP Contract

  • May 15, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The Halifax company devoted to fostering a culture of safety in the workplace has been awarded a $551,770 contract through the Government of Canada’s Build in Canada Innovation Program.

SayleSafety, a Software-as-a-Service company based in Hammonds

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Cribcut Expands to Toronto

  • May 15, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

When Entrevestor featured Cribcut last spring, founder David Howe was deciding how and where to expand his company, which provides a software-enabled marketplace for mobile hairstylists. Almost a year later, Cribcut is expanding into Toronto.

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CyberSmart 2018 Starts Today

  • May 15, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

CyberNB today will open CyberSmart 2018, a conference that features presentations by cybersecurity experts from around the world.

The conference will develop themes that were brought out at the inaugural  event last year, CyberSmart is the only

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Skyline Rebrands to RetailDeep

  • May 15, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

RetailDeep, the Halifax-startup that used to be known as Skyline, is currently in the running for some big prizes and was shortlisted to the Top 20 at the XRC Labs innovation accelerator in New York City.

XRC runs two cohorts annually and

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Mastering the Art of the Pivot

  • May 13, 2018
  • Katelyn Bougoin

How Dash Hudson launched (and killed) four products in two years and lived to tell the tale.

If you’re an early-stage startup founder, a successful pivot story is much like a modern-day fairytale. It’s got all the right elements—heroism, suspense,

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Dal Seeks $100K Contest Entries

  • May 11, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Applications are open for Dalhousie University’s $100K Competition.

The competition, now in its fifth year, assists teams of early-stage ventures in harnessing their talent, resources, and technological know-how to build high-growth companies.

The

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Jobs: NBIF, Aycoutay, DH, Soma

  • May 11, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

We have quite the list for our Jobs of the Week column today with six positions ranging from COO with Aycoutay in Halifax, to a Director of Research with the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation in Fredericton.

Aycoutay is an early-stage startup

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Manifold Makes 2018 Narwhal List

  • May 11, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Manifold has been named to the 2018 Narwhal List, a group of Canadian high-growth companies that have raised a lot of capital quickly.

The Halifax startup, founded two years ago by GoInstant Co-Founder Jevon MacDonald, was actually

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SucSeed Tackles Food Security

  • May 11, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

What began as a student-run project at the Memorial University of Newfoundland has scaled into a successful business that is addressing key social issues, like youth employment and food security.

Project SucSeed builds small-scale hydroponic

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WEnTech Plans 2 Launches in 2018

  • May 10, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

WEnTech Solutions, the Fredericton software company that aids waste-to-energy projects, is planning to launch two new products by the end of the year.

In an interview in the company’s Knowledge Park office, Founder and CEO Amir Akbari said WEnTech

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NL Innovation Week Starts Monday

  • May 10, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Technologies Industries, in partnership with other Newfoundland organizations, is holding a series of workshops, seminars and classes across the province for its Innovation Week, which starts Monday.

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