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Jobs of the Week: 5 at Dash Hudson

  • Mar 09, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

To keep up with its growing customer base, Dash Hudson has five positions open to join its team here in Halifax, all on our job board this week

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing, software-as-a-service company that helps corporate clients optimize

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Proposify Raises; ARR Soars 121%

  • Mar 09, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Proposify has raised a significant funding round led by businessmen John Risley and Brendan Paddick, which should help the company more than double its staff to 60 this year.

The parties involved in the deal, which closed last week,

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Ubique Backs Major Gaming Event

  • Mar 09, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Ubique Networks, a gaming platform company headquartered in Sydney and Toronto, is putting up US$10,000 in prize money for the CounterStrike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) tournament at the Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo, Canada’s largest gaming expo.

The

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Ethical Swag Expands Into the US

  • Mar 08, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Having polished her e-commerce sites and quit her full-time job, Tara Milburn is building Ethical Swag, a business that helps companies buy sustainable branded products.

Sydney-based Milburn began Ethical Swag in 2010 and, until recently, worked on

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Region Logs $99M in VC, Says CVCA

  • Mar 08, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

For the second year in a row, the Atlantic Region received about $100 million in venture capital investment, largely because of a handful of big deals in Nova Scotia, according to data from Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

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A Call for Better Business Acumen

  • Mar 07, 2018
  • Darren Rowles

Having been a scientist for more than 15 years, I’ve seen my fair share of science-based startups come and go.

Those that succeed tend to do so through a combination of good products, good business sense and good fortune. Often a good enough

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Startup Yard Seeks Applications

  • Mar 06, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Applications to join the Startup Yard’s first cohort at the Center for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship are now open.

COVE is looking for early-stage ocean companies in sectors such as energy, aquaculture, and marine transportation to join its

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Silver Economy Summit Wraps Up

  • Mar 06, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Nova Scotia's Department of Seniors and the Halifax Chamber of Commerce are wrapping up their fourth annual Silver Economy Summit, called AdvantAGE: Embrace the Boom, at the new Halifax Convention Centre today.

The two-day conference brought

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Play the Field Brings AR to Casinos

  • Mar 05, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

If the Pokémon GO craze of summer 2016 has shown us anything, it’s the impact that augmented reality has on connecting consumers with the physical world around them. And Kara Holm, the CEO of Play the Field is piloting a project that will bring that

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BioNB Releases First Annual Report

  • Mar 05, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

BioNB, the umbrella organization for life sciences in New Brunswick, has published its first annual report, showing a rapid increase in the number of biotech companies in the province and highlighting several achievements.

Last week, the

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Vertiball wins $15,000 at CBMC

  • Mar 05, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Curtis Kennedy, a mechanical engineering student at the University of New Brunswick, was the winner at the sixth annual Canada's Business Model Competition this weekend.

Kennedy took home $15,000 for Vertiball, a wall-mounted roller ball for

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UNB wins VCIC at SMU

  • Mar 04, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

A team of four MBA students from the University of New Brunswick won first place at the Venture Capital Investment Competition, at St. Mary’s University on Friday.

Six teams from Canadian universities took part in the competition, where they

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