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Jobs: Dash Hudson Account Exec

  • Jul 17, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Dash Hudson is continuing to expand its staff, and today we’re highlighting an opening at the social media analytics company for an account executive.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson has created a “visual intelligence platform” that helps its corporate

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Helping Carers of the Elderly

  • Jul 14, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

After focusing on providing dementia care training and services to staff in care homes, consulting company Person Centred Universe is turning its attention to supporting those who care for dementia sufferers in private settings like family

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East Coast Troop at StartupFest

  • Jul 14, 2017
  • Cherise Letson, Huddle

On Thursday, 55 entrepreneurs from Atlantic Canada arrived at Montreal StartupFest on a luxury charter bus, what the Taskforce Fredericton Startup Network is calling the East Coast Caravan.

The Taskforce Fredericton Startup Network worked with

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Mariner Aims To Improve 28% Growth

  • Jul 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Craig Storey has just taken over international sales at Atlantic Canada’s most influential tech company, Saint John-based Mariner, and he’s not satisfied with its 28-per-cent revenue growth in 2016.

Until recently, Storey was the CEO of Shift

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Vish, Porpoise Pitch at FounderFuel

  • Jul 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Vish Salon Tech and Porpoise, two emerging Atlantic Canadian startups, presented at the FounderFuel Spring 2017 Demo Day in Montreal this week, which coincided with the city’s massive Startup Festival.

Pitching before a roomful of investors and

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Propel ICT Prepares for Fall Cohort

  • Jul 12, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Propel ICT, the regional IT accelerator, is now accepting applications for its 2017 Fall Accelerator and will hold information sessions across the region for people interested in applying.

The one-hour sessions are intended to tell prospective

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Moncton’s New Social Venture Project

  • Jul 12, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Members of the Greater Moncton business community have launched a new initiative featuring an accelerator and funding vehicle to encourage the development of more social enterprises in the area.

Social enterprises are businesses created to further

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Disrupting the Market for Graphene

  • Jul 11, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

When Mo AlGermozi and Marciel Gaier manned their booth at the recent Atlantic Venture Forum, they handed all visitors a three-inch piece of black, plastic-like material and challenged them to break it.

It was graphene, a revolutionary new material

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10 Teams Emerge from UNB TME

  • Jul 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The University of New Brunswick’s Master of Technology Management & Entrepreneurship program held its final pitching session Thursday night, allowing 10 teams comprising 13 students to present their companies to peers, mentors and local business

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Jobs: Dash Hudson, BioNB

  • Jul 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Our Jobs of the Week column this week features postings from Dash Hudson, which is seeking a Sales Development Intern, and BioNB, which has an opening for a Marketing and Communications Officer.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson has created a “visual

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Armed with Data, IWT Plans to Scale

  • Jul 07, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Island Water Technologies has completed the first installations of its Regen water-treatment facility, and those two projects are providing the company with the one thing it needs to win other contracts — data.

Based in Montague, P.E.I., IWT now

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PEI’s Startup Zone Adds 3 Teams

  • Jul 07, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Zone, the hub for new businesses in downtown Charlottetown, has announced that three new companies have joined its business incubation residency program.

The latest companies to be accepted into the program are Shoplaw, Local Legends

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