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Making Lobster Fishery More Efficient

  • Jan 10, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

When Premier Stephen McNeil toured the Volta Labs startup house in Halifax last month, one company that seemed to catch his eye was SeaSmart Technologies, a new oceantech company based in Mahone Bay.

SeaSmart is the sort of company that oceantech

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CarbonCure Lands 16 Installations

  • Jan 10, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Halifax-based CarbonCure Technologies, whose technology reduces CO2 emissions in the making of concrete, plans installations in 16 facilities owned by Atlanta-based Thomas Concrete this year.

The Halifax cleantech company said in a statement

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LaunchDal Seeks Collide Applicants

  • Jan 10, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

LaunchDal, Dalhousie University’s business accelerator program, is taking applications for its Collide Winter 2018 program, which is set to start on Jan. 25.

The program is open to anyone with a business idea and is free. 

Participants will attend

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Appili To Work on Anti-Bioterror Vaccine

  • Jan 09, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Appili Therapeutics has struck an agreement to work on a vaccine that could protect people against a potential bioterror threat.

The Halifax drug discovery company said Monday it signed a licence agreement with the National Research Council of

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4 To Present at Startup Halifax Event

  • Jan 09, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Startup Halifax is hosting an event to showcase the many startup success stories from this province on Wednesday at the Halifax Central Library.

The event, called An Insider’s Look at Startup Success, is free and will include presentations from at

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Propel Names Demo Day Pitchers

  • Jan 08, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Propel ICT, the regional accelerator, has revealed the companies that will pitch at its demo day on Jan. 23 in Fredericton.

Eleven companies will definitely pitch at the event, which will feature a pub crawl to Fredericton craft breweries. Two

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Jobs of the Week: 2 at Dash Hudson

  • Jan 08, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Dash Hudson is looking to hire a CFO and Account Executive in our Jobs of the Week column today.

Dash Hudson is a software-as-a-service business here in Halifax that helps corporate clients optimize and manage visual marketing strategies.  Its

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After TopLog, Yeloglu Moves On & Up

  • Jan 05, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Two years as a data scientist at Microsoft in Toronto has taught Ozge Yeloglu the importance of enterprise sales — something she wishes she’d known more about when she was running Halifax-based data analytics startup topLog.

Yeloglu is known

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Business Model Contest Seeks Entries

  • Jan 05, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Canada’s Business Model Competition, which aims to steer student-led startups away from failure, has opened applications for its sixth annual competition in March.

Dalhousie University, which initiated the event in 2013, is currently accepting

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What’s Ahead in 2018? Funding News

  • Jan 04, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

A look-ahead to the New Year for the Atlantic Canadian startup community draws attention to the financing of our most successful companies. The companies I’m watching this year either raised money in the last couple of years, or could be raising

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Energia Seeks 2018 Cohort Applicants

  • Jan 04, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Energia Ventures, an accelerator in Frederction, is seeking companies in the energy, cleantech and cybersecurity sectors to apply for its 2018 accelerator program. 

The program, which is now accepting applications, will run from April 30 until

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NBIF Extends R3 to 3-Day Event

  • Jan 03, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has unveiled the new format of its biennial R3 event, extending the celebration of New Brunswick research to three days for the first time.

The conference, running from April 10 to 12, will also be the first

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