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Acadia Award $10K to Startups

  • Dec 03, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Three environmental studies students at Acadia University won $6000 to help launch their business Highway 101, a mobile food truck that serves healthy produce sourced from local farms.

Emilia Ganslandt, Gillian Hollebone and Alisha Christie won

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Jobs of the Week: Dash Hudson, NBIF

  • Dec 03, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

In our Jobs of the Week column today, we’re highlighting Dash Hudson’s search for a Sales Development Representative and New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s opening for an Investment Analyst.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson is a software-as-a-service

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Smart Grid Project Gains Steam in NB

  • Dec 01, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

While Atlantic Canada’s nautical types are pushing ahead with the oceans supercluster proposal, there’s another major initiative in the region that has captured less attention but still offers great potential.

Centred in New Brunswick, the Smart

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Ashored Wins $3000 from LaunchDal

  • Dec 01, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Ashored Innovations, a young venture that aims to help automate the lobster and crab fisheries, captured the $3,000 first prize at Dalhousie University’s Collide Fall 2017 Pitch Competition on Thursday night.

LaunchDal, the university’s

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NBCC Offers Cybersecurity Program

  • Dec 01, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

The New Brunswick Community College has announced it will offer a one-year program in cybersecurity beginning next September. By introducing this advanced post-grad program at its Saint John Campus, NBCC, in partnership with CyberNB, aims to help

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Aqualitis Set To Raise, Then Launch

  • Nov 29, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Aqualitas, the Liverpool cannabis producer, is set to close a $6.5-million funding round with private investors next month, with the hopes of getting to market next year.

The close of this funding round will bring the total equity capital raised by

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Gardner Named to Biotech Panel

  • Nov 29, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Chris Gardner, the co-founder and CEO of Sequence Bio, a Newfoundland and Labrador genomic data company, has been appointed to the newly created federal Health/Bio-sciences Economic Strategy Table.

“Canadians are known for finding the better,

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Bringing Life to the Island Sandbox

  • Nov 29, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Like the other managers of Nova Scotia’s innovation-promoting sandboxes, Darren MacDonald is an entrepreneur. He’s an ergonomist with more than 20 years’ experience of design thinking and seeing experiences from the perspective of the user. It’s a

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PropelICT To Host Pints and Pitches

  • Nov 28, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Instead of startups pitching to one big audience, the folks from PropelICT have partnered with BrewHopper to offer something very different for its coming Regional Demo Day.

Pints and Pitches, which will take place in Fredericton on Dec. 12, is the

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Densitas, EnvoyAI Ink Distribution Pact

  • Nov 28, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Densitas, a software company that analyzes the density of breast tissue, has signed a contract that will help integrate its flagship product DM-Density into customers’ imaging systems.

The Halifax company signed the integration agreement with

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Densitas, EnvoyAI Ink Distribution Pact

  • Nov 28, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Densitas, a software company that analyzes the density of breast tissue, has signed a contract that will help integrate its flagship product DM-Density into customers’ imaging systems.

The Halifax company signed the integration agreement with

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Halifax Slips in Tech Talent Ratings

  • Nov 28, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax has slipped two places to eighth spot in CBRE ranking of Canadian tech talent markets, as the strong hiring boom of 2013-2015 lost its oomph.

CBRE Canada last week issued the report titled Scoring Canadian Tech Talent, which ranked Toronto,

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