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Job of the Week: Harbr

  • May 28, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

A student co-op position at Harbr is the only post in our Jobs of the Week Column today.

Harbr is a Halifax company that developed a mobile app for big construction companies to track data and progress on large projects, improving efficiency over

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AVF Names 12 Presenting Companies

  • May 25, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Venture Forum has announced the dozen companies that will present at this year’s event 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 Atlantic

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NACO To Host Summit May 28-29

  • May 24, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The National Angel Capital Organization, which represents angel investors from across Canada, is on an offensive to increase investment in Atlantic Canadian startups, and is already working with a few.

NACO earlier this month completed the NACO

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Rise is a winner at NB Power Awards

  • May 24, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Fredericton-based company, Rise, was recognized at the Energy Efficiency Excellence Awards on Wednesday night for its web platform that helps people build energy efficient homes.

Rise received the Innovation Award at the dinner presented by New

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ProcedureFlow On To Fundica Finals

  • May 23, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Daniella Degrace is not resting on her laurels after capturing top prize at the Fundica Roadshow event in Montreal  earlier this month.

The CEO of Saint John-based ProcedureFlow has been on the road, meeting with clients and potential investors.

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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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