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Build Opens Fund II with $15M from NS

  • Dec 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Build Ventures, the Atlantic Canadian regional venture capital firm, has officially started building its second fund with a $15 million commitment from the Nova Scotia government.

The provincial government and its VC agency Innovacorp announced the

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Propel Delays Demo Day Until Jan. 23

  • Dec 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Propel ICT has postponed its Fredericton Demo Day.

Due to concerns about the weather, the regional ICT accelerator said Friday that the Pints and Pitches event scheduled for Tuesday night will now be held on Jan. 23. You can sign up for the event

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Jobs: CloudKettle, Dash Hudson

  • Dec 10, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Two openings at CloudKettle and a posting from Dash Hudson steal the headline of our Jobs of the Week column today.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson is a software-as-a-service company that developed a platform to help companies optimize their visual

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Peace by Chocolate Aims for Top 5

  • Dec 08, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

The Hadhad family, operators of Antigonish-based Peace by Chocolate, have got their treats into Sobey’s stores across the Maritimes in time for the holidays. Next year, they intend to expand nationally and into the U.S. All of this comes less than

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Province Raises NBIF Funding 20%

  • Dec 07, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick government is increasing its five-year funding for the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation by about 20 percent in an effort to further boost innovation in the province.

Premier Brian Gallant announced Wednesday that his government

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Daily Planet Features Chancellor

  • Dec 07, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Chancellor of the Universe, a game created in Halifax that features machine learning, augmented reality and robotics, has been featured on the Discovery Channel.

Three weeks ago, we featured an article on Brave New World, a Halifax web

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RtTech Software Sells Cipher Product

  • Dec 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

RtTech Software of Moncton has sold a key product to Bedford, Mass.-based Aspen Technology, providing a capital injection for the company and the growth of two operations in the Moncton area.

Aspen said in a statement Tuesday it purchased RtTech’s

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NS Commits $2.25M to Volta Labs

  • Dec 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Nova Scotian government has committed $2.25 million to the expansion of Volta Labs, which plans to triple the size of its facility in downtown Halifax.

The government’s contribution to the startup house follows on a $2 million commitment

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CarbonCure Client List Passes 80

  • Dec 06, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, creator of a process that buries carbon dioxide in concrete, has partnered with St. Louis-based Breckenridge Material Company and Eastern Missouri Concrete to lift its number of concrete-producing partners

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HotSpot Closer to Regional Vision

  • Dec 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The logo of Fredericton startup HotSpot Parking is about to become very familiar to Haligonians, as the company has won the contract to offer mobile parking services in Halifax.

The four-year-old company — whose radiating parking meter logo is

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Rovault Plans Pilot for Its Seafood Tech

  • Dec 04, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Halifax-based RovaultAI has designed a marine camera solution that could potentially save $2 million per year for some of the region’s seafood plants.

The algorithm-based visual recognition software is specifically designed for the oceans sector

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Trispectra Aims To Help Fix Outages

  • Dec 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Trispectra is a Fredericton startup dedicated to solving a problem common to pretty well every electrical utility – quickly finding and identifying faults on their grids.

The company is made up of a trio of University of New Brunswick engineering

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