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CoLab Software Raises $600,000

  • Jun 25, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based CoLab Software said Monday it has closed a $600,000 financing round from Pelorus Venture Capital, Killick Capital, and Panache Ventures.

CoLab has developed a collaboration platform that helps engineers and others work together on

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HotSpot Captures Region

  • Jun 25, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The folks at HotSpot Parking in Fredericton are celebrating the fact their mobile parking service is spreading across Atlantic Canada. HotSpot has logged over 100,000 parking sessions since its December roll-out in Halifax and nearly 12,000

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BioPort 2018 Unveils Speakers

  • Jun 24, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The keynote speakers for the 2018 BioPort conference will be Corrina Lathan, CEO of AnthroTronix in Maryland, and William Charnetski, Ontario’s Chief Health Innovation Strategist.

BioNova, which organizes the annual gathering for life

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Jobs: NBIF, Spring Loaded, Cribcut

  • Jun 24, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is looking for a new CEO, based in Fredericton. The non-profit announced last month that its leader Calvin Milbury was no longer with the organization. Since 2003, the non-profit innovation agency has invested

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Hankinson To Run Pre-Seed Fund

  • Jun 21, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Patrick Hankinson, a Halifax entrepreneur and investor who specializes in information technology companies, will manage the new $17-million-plus pre-seed fund set up by the Nova Scotian government.

The government announced Thursday that Hankinson

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ABA Cuts Autism Therapy Paperwork

  • Jun 21, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

When Mark Gauci, a retired veteran in Newfoundland, learned that his son had been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) he prepared for a huge lifestyle change. But one thing he didn’t foresee was the paperwork. Stacks upon stacks of it.

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B-Line Joins North Carolina Accelerator

  • Jun 20, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

B-Line, a cleantech Software-as-a-Service company based out of Halifax and Toronto, has received a US$50,000 investment as it takes part in the Flywheel New Ventures Challenge accelerator in North Carolina.  

In early June, five companies were

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AVF Highlights Scaling Companies

  • Jun 20, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Venture Forum this year will include a special panel of East Coast companies that have raised significant capital, reflecting the growth in scaling companies in the region.

The AVF, which will take place in Halifax on June 28 and 29,

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Introhive Raises US$15.2M Round

  • Jun 20, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Introhive has raised US$15.2 million (C$20.2 million) in equity and debt financing and signalled that it hopes next year to become the first Atlantic Canadian tech company to raise $50 million in venture capital.

Based in Washington, D.C., and

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SomaDetect Lands $250K from NBIF

  • Jun 19, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

SomaDetect, an AgriTech company based inFredericton, received a $250,000 investment from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation according to a statement from NBIF on Monday. It did not say whether this investment was a part of a larger funding

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Eigen Expanding in Auto Sector

  • Jun 19, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Six years after he began dabbling in the Internet of Things space, Scott Everett is pushing his company Eigen Innovations aggressively into the automotive sector and courting investors. 

Everett is the CEO of Fredericton-based Eigen, which in the

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Colin Deacon Appointed to Senate

  • Jun 17, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Colin Deacon, who has led startups Bluelight Analytics and SpellRead, has been appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The Prime Minister announced Friday that the Governor General appointed Deacon as an independent Senator to

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