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Build Opens Fund II with $15M from NS
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
Propel Delays Demo Day Until Jan. 23
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
Jobs: CloudKettle, Dash Hudson
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
Peace by Chocolate Aims for Top 5
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
Province Raises NBIF Funding 20%
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
Daily Planet Features Chancellor
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
RtTech Software Sells Cipher Product
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
NS Commits $2.25M to Volta Labs
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
CarbonCure Client List Passes 80
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
HotSpot Closer to Regional Vision
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
Rovault Plans Pilot for Its Seafood Tech
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
Trispectra Aims To Help Fix Outages
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