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Hachey Traded Wall Street for AgTech

  • Oct 11, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

David Hachey’s entrepreneurial journey took him from Harvard University to Wall Street to a farm in rural Nova Scotia. The result of this unique career path is the recent launch of his startup BidSquid, an online marketplace for agricultural

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Oceans Supercluster Makes Shortlist

  • Oct 11, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The proposed oceans supercluster in Atlantic Canada is one of nine proposals shortlisted for the federal government’s $950 million Supercluster Initiative.

Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, was in Halifax on

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Cohort 2 of Fredericton’s Export Igniter

  • Oct 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Ignite Fredericton, the community economic development agency, is inviting Fredericton-based companies aiming to enter new markets to apply to the Export Igniter acceleration program.

Since the successful pilot program concluded in March 2017,

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INovia, Afore in Swept’s US$2M Round

  • Oct 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Fresh from the 500 Startups accelerator in California’s Silicon Valley, janitorial software-maker Swept has closed a US$2-million funding round, led by venture capital firms iNovia and Afore Capital.

Halifax-based Swept (formerly called

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Jobs: Swept, HeyOrca, Remsoft

  • Oct 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

A pair of job postings from janitorial software producer Swept head up our Jobs of the Week column today.

Fresh with about C$2.5 million in new financing, Halifax-based Swept is growing and is looking for Directors of Customer Success and Project

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Deshpande To Open GCEC Event

  • Oct 09, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Famed entrepreneur and philanthropist Desh Deshpande will officially open the 2017 Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centres Conference on Friday at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

The consortium is a meeting place for university

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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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