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Mbissa Energy To Expand in Africa

  • Dec 13, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Mbissa Energy, a Fredericton-based startup devoted to delivering electricity to remote areas, showcased its mini-home that is 100 per cent solar powered last Thursday.

The showcase, open to investors, partners and media, demonstrated how Mbissa

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UNB, Mitacs, Hatch Launch Program

  • Dec 12, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Planet Hatch, Mitacs and the University of New Brunswick have partnered to offer a new pilot program called Accelerate Entrepreneur for UNB graduates or postdoctoral students pursuing entrepreneurial ventures.

Accelerate Entrepreneur is open to all

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Guild Solutions Banks $500K in Sales

  • Dec 11, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Once you understand Guild Solution's target market, it’s easy to comprehend the upside of this young Bedford startup.

Guild, which is set to graduate from PropelICT’s Build cohort, has developed administrative software for the association

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Keeping Roads Safe Teams With Telus

  • Dec 11, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Halifax-based Keeping Roads Safe has partnered with national cellphone carrier Telus with the goal of keeping drivers off their phone while they’re on the road.

Co-founded by the father-and-son team of Angus and Josh Poulain, KRS has developed a

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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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