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Swell Lands San Diego Port Funding

  • Jun 27, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax’s Swell Advantage has raised US$100,000 in equity financing from the Port of San Diego, and will help the southern California port develop the technology for a smart marina.

Swell will undertake a one-year pilot project to refine

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Propel Demo Day Features 11 Startups.

  • Jun 27, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

On the fifth anniversary of its first Demo Day, Propel ICT and its community gathered in Halifax last night to witness presentations by another 11 of its graduates.

The Spring 2017 cohort graduated last night, bringing the number of companies to

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Mariner, NBIF Put $500K in Beauceron

  • Jun 26, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Beauceron Security Inc., a Fredericton company that assesses clients’ cybersecurity risks, has raised more than $500,000 in equity funding after signing up 11 clients.

The company announced Monday that it has raised money from Mariner Partners and

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Sverica Buys PEI-based iWave

  • Jun 25, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Charlottetown-based iWave Information Systems Inc. has exited, selling to a California private equity funding after almost three decades as an independent company.

Sverica Capital Management LLC of San Francisco announced last week it had acquired

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Envenio Receives $1.3M in VC Funds

  • Jun 25, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based Envenio has secured investment $1.3 million in venture capital from Celtic House Venture Partners, Green Century Investments and New Brunswick Investment Foundation.

The computational fluid dynamics, or CFD, software developer

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NSHA Lands $2.1M from ACOA

  • Jun 25, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The federal government is providing $2.1 million in funding to the Nova Scotia Health Authority, or NSHA, to assist with the development of five novel radiotherapy technologies.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, which is providing the money

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Jobs: Beauceron, DGI Clinical

  • Jun 25, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

We have openings for a developer in Fredericton and a training and research assistant in Halifax in the edition of Jobs of the week.

Beauceron, a cybersecurity company in the New Brunswick capital, is looking for a senior software developer, while

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Norex Rebrands as Code + Mortar

  • Jun 23, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Norex, the Halifax web development company and innovation lab, is rebranding itself to become Code + Mortar, conveying a mission that goes way beyond web design.

Headquartered in a Victorian house on Gottingen Street, Code + Mortar aims to work

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CarShare Atlantic Adds One-Way Trips

  • Jun 23, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

CarShare Atlantic announced Thursday that its clients in Halifax are getting an improved service with the addition of one-way car-sharing.

The company said in a statement that it would add the first group of 20 hybrid FLEX cars to its fleet in

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PEI’s Tunedly To Pitch at Startupfest

  • Jun 22, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Seven international startups will compete for the Best Onstage Pitch at Montreal’s Startup Festival next month, including an Atlantic Canadian entry that may be the most international startup you’ll ever find.

The company is Tunedly, which has

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HomeEXCEPT Bags US Award

  • Jun 22, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

HomeEXCEPT, a Halifax company that uses thermal sensors to monitor frail elderly people, has won its category in an international competition for innovation for senior citizens.

Washington, D.C.-based AARP Inc. – formerly the American Association

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Solace Lands $2.8M for Lab Expansion

  • Jun 21, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Solace Power has received $2.8 million in government financing to expand its lab into one of the leading facilities of its kind in the country.

The company now has 30 employees (20 of them engineers) and will soon expand to 35, and it has outgrown

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