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HeyOrca Unveils $2M Funding Round

  • May 30, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

HeyOrca has landed $2 million in equity funding, allowing it to ramp up its fast-growing content-planning business.

The St. John’s company that makes collaborative software for marketing agencies announced this morning that it received $2 million

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Indigo Foundation Backs Squiggle Park

  • May 30, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Squiggle Park has struck a partnership with the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation, which will place the company’s edtech product in some of the most disadvantaged schools in Canada.

The Halifax company’s online games, which help children to learn

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TruLeaf Plans Farms Across Canada

  • May 29, 2017
  • Cara Smith, Huddle

A Nova Scotian agritech company that first began at the Perennia Innovation Centre is now looking forward building farms across the country with their advanced crop growing systems.

TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture’s systems are now in use at their

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Job of the Week: Dash Hudson

  • May 29, 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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Teaching Tech to First Nations Children

  • May 26, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

All children need to learn computer science, but minority groups often have fewer opportunities to do so. A new five-week program in New Brunswick is helping boost knowledge among First Nations’ elementary and middle-school children.

The program,

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UNB Opens Marine 3D Printing Centre

  • May 26, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The University of New Brunswick on Thursday launched Canada’s first research centre for 3D metal printing for the marine and defence industries.

The Fredericton university said in a statement the new Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of

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Swept Accepted into 500 Startups

  • May 25, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Swept, the Halifax company that makes janitorial software, has been accepted into 500 Startups, the second Atlantic Canadian startup to be accepted into the prestigious program this year.

The Silicon Valley-based program on Wednesday announced the

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WellTrack Hits $400,000 in ARR

  • May 25, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

WellTrack, the Fredericton company that provides mental health software for university students, has reached $400,000 in annual recurring revenues and sees a clear path to $1 million this summer.

Founder and CEO Darren Piercey revealed the

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12 Companies To Present at AVF

  • May 25, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Venture Forum has announced the 12 companies that will present at the 2017 conference, which this year will include a special stream for life sciences and health technology companies.

As well as providing a range of speakers, the AVF

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Labfundr Raises Money for Research

  • May 24, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Labfundr, a Halifax startup that has developed a crowdfunding site for scientific research, has launched its first campaign, which will help develop a databank of blood samples for Canadian children and teens.

Founded by scientific researcher Eric

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Region Eyes Oceans Supercluster

  • May 23, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canada is making a push to establish a “pan-Atlantic oceans cluster” with the hope of tapping the $950-million supercluster program announced in the last federal budget.

There’s been some scuttlebutt in economic development circles lately

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Rodgers To Head CDL-Atlantic

  • May 19, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Jesse Rodgers, the head of Volta Labs, has been named the regional leader of the Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic, the new Halifax-based accelerator that was officially announced Thursday.

CDL, which began at University of Toronto in 2012, is

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