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MUN Awards $40K in Woodward Cup

  • Apr 03, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Three Memorial University of Newfoundland engineering students have won $10,000 each at the 2018 Mel Woodward Cup for their innovations in health care and energy efficiency.

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship hosted the business idea

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Parsons Takes New Post in Toronto

  • Apr 03, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Having worked at a startup, a support organization and a student investment group in Atlantic Canada, Dana Parsons has joined Toronto-based Highline BETA, one of Canada’s most innovative companies in the venture capital sphere.

Parsons, formerly

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Neothermal To Test Heat Storage Unit

  • Apr 03, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

After a few years of development, Neothermal Energy Storage of Halifax is beginning two demonstration projects for its electric thermal storage unit, or ETS, which helps homeowners manage their energy consumption.

Led by Co-Founders Louis

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AVF Seeks 12 Founders to Pitch

  • Apr 03, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Venture Forum is looking for a dozen startups to present at its two-day conference in late June in Halifax.

The sixth annual AVF, which will take place June 28 and 29 at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel, is a meeting place for

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Job of the Week: Opening at Masitek

  • Apr 03, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

MASITEK Instruments’ opening for a Production Electronics Technologist is the headline posting in our Job of the Week column today.

In seven years, Masitek has grown from a small outfit that prevented damage in potatoes during the harvesting

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Peachy To Help Seniors Live at Home

  • Mar 29, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

New entrepreneurs are advised to find a problem, or pain, to solve, and consult with prospective clients before proceeding. Chrissy Rossiter did so and is now helping companies that care for seniors in their own homes streamline and improve care.

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UNB Team Makes CanInfra Top 20

  • Mar 29, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

A team of four students from the University of New Brunswick has made it to the top 20 of the CanInfra Challenge, a nationwide contest that crowdsources pitches to solve Canada’s infrastructure problems.

The team, called Smart Roads, is pitching a

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SimplyCast Adheres to EU Data Rules

  • Mar 29, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

SimplyCast announces it’s in accord with new General Data Protection Regulation

Dartmouth-based communication automation company SimplyCast has announced its compliance with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation.

The

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Spritely Unveils Web Application

  • Mar 27, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Spritely, a Halifax company that aims to show newcomers around their new cities, showcased its web platform at its soft launch Tuesday night in Bedford.

“This launch is just a taste, and will give users an idea of what the platform will look like,”

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Axem Builds Headset at China’s HAX

  • Mar 27, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Halifax-based Axem Neurotechnology is attending the HAX Accelerator in Shenzhen, China, where it plans to complete the prototype of its device, which enhances mental training for athletes.

The company’s co-founders, Tony Ingram and Chris Friesen,

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Eight Companies Enter Startup Zone

  • Mar 27, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Zone has taken on eight new resident companies after seven clients graduated this month.

The startup house in downtown Charlottetown said in a press release on Monday that seven members have graduated and joined its alumni network: Kim

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Mitacs Recognizes Chinova’s Huq

  • Mar 26, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

When the national research organization Mitacs named 150 leading Canadian researchers in December, one name on the list was Tanzina Huq, the CTO of Fredericton natural preservative company Chinova Bioworks.

Huq is a postdoctoral fellow in Chemical

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