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Blue Solutions Contest Offers $200K

  • Oct 09, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Entrants from around the world are being sought for a Nova Scotia competition designed to find solutions to ocean industry problems and offer about $200,000 in prize money.

The Blue Solutions Start-Up Challenge has been established by Innovacorp

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Randell Wins EY’s Atlantic Award

  • Oct 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Joe Randell, CEO of Chorus Aviation Inc., an organization that offers a full suite of aviation services, is this year’s EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 Atlantic winner.

“Joe has played a vital role shaping the landscape of the Canadian airline

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SomaDetect Wins US$1M at 43North

  • Oct 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based SomaDetect has won the US$1 million first prize in the 43Northcompetition in Buffalo, NY.

As well as giving the one-year-old company the equivalent of C$1.25 million, the win grants SomaDetect space at the 43North incubator in

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Solace Appoints Gotlieb as CEO

  • Oct 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

As it raises its Series A funding round, Solace Power of Mount Pearl, NL, has named Michael Gotlieb as CEO to guide the company alongside Founder and President Kris McNeil.

Solace Power specializes in wireless power – that is, delivering electrical

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Stash Explores Energy Storage Systems

  • Oct 05, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

With heat pump technology improving and the devices becoming more popular, Fredericton’s Stash Energy is well positioned to build a business around storing that energy.

Stash co-founder and CEO Jordan Kennie believes Stash is the only energy

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Innovacorp Unveils Spark Shortlist

  • Oct 05, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp on Thursday revealed the shortlist for its Spark competition, which will award a total of $800,000 in non-dilutive capital to startups across the province.

The innovation agency said in August its Spark competition would provide grants

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Durland in LifeRaft’s $1.45M Round

  • Oct 05, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

LifeRaft, the Halifax company whose platform uncovers potential threats through social media posts, has brought in noted investor Mike Durland to its team as an investor and adviser.

The company said today that Durland led a “non-dilutive” $1.45

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Oceans Contest Offers China Access

  • Oct 05, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

A new startup competition in the OceanTech space is offering competitors cash prizes of as much as US$70,000 (C$87,5000) as well as access to the Chinese market.

Halifax is one of a handful of cities around the world that will host regional

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PEI Ignition Fund Backs 10 Startups

  • Oct 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The government of Prince Edward Island has announced that 10 young companies will receive Ignition grants of $25,000 each to develop their products or services.

The government said Tuesday the grants would be awarded to the companies to help

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NC Client Adds CarbonCure Systems

  • Oct 04, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

CarbonCure Technologies says one of its major clients has installed its technology at two more of its concrete production facilities.

Dartmouth-based Carboncure this week distributed an announcement by North Carolina-based Concrete Supply Co.,

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McInnes Cooper’s Startup Package

  • Oct 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

McInnes Cooper, the Atlantic Canadian law firm, has announced its new Start-up and Retainer Packages with the goal of making legal services more accessible for innovation-driven startups in Atlantic Canada.

The firm said in a statement on Tuesday

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Boondoc’s MRR To Hit $140K in Jan.

  • Oct 03, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Before discussing his survey of 1,450 physicians about tax reform, Blair J. Ryan was more than happy to discuss the financial success his company, Boondoc, has been enjoying lately.

Halifax-based Boondoc is best known as the holding company for The

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