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Startup Zone to Host Invest Atlantic
The ninth annual Invest Atlantic conference will take place in Charlottetown this year, checking off all four provinces as hosts of the pan-Atlantic conference.
Invest Atlantic, which started in 2010, was initially based in Halifax. This September,
UNB TME Celebrates 13 Startups
Thirteen entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial teams took to the stage in Fredericton on Thursday as UNB TME held its summer send-off for two of its programs.
The University of New Brunswick’s Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program began by
Google Film To Highlight NS Seniors
A team from Google has been in Nova Scotia this week filming a pilot project that uses Google Home to improve the lives of seniors.
For the past three months, a team led by entrepreneur John Hamblin has been working with the voice-activated product
Adaptiiv Receives 510(k) Clearance
Adaptiiv, a Halifax-based medical technology company, has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell its 3D Bolus Software in the United States.
Formerly known as 3DBolus, Adaptiiv has developed software that works
Supercluster Eyes Projects This Year
The Ocean Supercluster this week is undertaking a road-show throughout Atlantic Canada, outlining how companies can participate in research and development spending expected to be worth as much as $360 million over the next five years.
The group,
Farrar named CEO of Startup Zone
Startup Zone, Prince Edward Island's startup incubator, has named Patrick Farrar, the Co-Founder and former COO of Venture for Canada, as its new CEO.
Startup Zone provides resident companies with a workspace, advice in professional services like
PEI Game Studios Sign Deals
Two indie video game development companies based in Prince Edward Island have signed exclusive publishing deals with Toronto-based game publisher, Throwback Entertainment.
Throwback announced last month that it had signed the deals to publish
Microsoft Recognizes Kognitiv, T4G
Kognitiv Spark and T4G were big winners Monday at Microsoft Canada’s 2018 Impact Awards in Las Vegas.
Fredericton-based Kognitive Spark, which uses augmented reality to help workers in remote locations, won the Innovation with Hardware category.
How Bonavista, NL, Attracts Young Entrepreneurs
Budding entrepreneurs in Bonavista, a town of fewer than 4,000 people on the eastern coast of Newfoundland, now have a place to grow and incubate their ventures with the opening of a business development centre, called The Commons.
The
UNB TME To Host 2 Events Thursday
UNB TME – the six letters that spell student entrepreneurship in New Brunswick – will hold a mid-summer extravaganza this week to celebrate two of its programs.
The Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program at University of New Brunswick
Job of the Week: NBIF Finance Head
The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is looking for a new Director of Finance, which is the lone entry in our Jobs of the Week column today.
NBIF, which is also conducting a search for a new CEO, is a non-profit organization that leads
3 Trends To Watch in the 2nd Half
We’ve just passed the halfway point of 2018, so this is a good time to check the pulse of the Atlantic Canadian innovation community. Note I wrote “innovation community” rather than “startup community.”
The key to understanding how this community
