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LINKETT Growing After 500 Startups

  • Sep 13, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

Toronto and California-based LINKETT has quadrupled its customer base in the last year. Appropriately enough for a marketing analytics company, LINKETT has grown by streamlining and deepening its use of paid social media advertising.

LINKETT helps

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Jobs of the Week: Dash Hudson, DPL

  • Sep 12, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

It’s been said that just about every startup is looking for developers, and this week in Jobs of the Week we’re highlighting companies from around the region in the hunt for tech talent.

Companies based in three of the four Atlantic Provinces and

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Briefs: NB Events; Dal’s Collide

  • Sep 12, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Events in Fredericton this Week

The Startup Canada Awards on Tuesday evening are just one of a series of events taking place in Fredericton this week.

Startup Canada, the national organization dedicated to developing startups, will hand out their

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Gardner Dedicated to ‘Place-Making’

  • Sep 09, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

St. John’s-based entrepreneur Chris Gardner is doing a lot to foster and grow his community. He, in turn, will need community support if his biotechnology company Sequence Bio is to succeed.

Gardner and co-founder epidemiologist Tyler Wish aim to

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Ella: The Shop To Open in Saint John

  • Sep 09, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Ella, the Saint John-based app-developer that helps women sell their used clothing, has opened a retail outlet where women can get together to close more sales.

Founder and CEO Kelly Lawson announced Thursday that the company is opening a store

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Using Data to Fight Global Hunger

  • Sep 08, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

When the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative holds its first summit this month, one speaker will be a New Brunswick entrepreneur who aims to use data analytics to alleviate world hunger.

Chris Baker, CEO of the Saint John data

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Innovacorp Launches Spark West

  • Sep 08, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp has launched a new competition called Spark West to identify and provide seed capital for startups in western Nova Scotia.

Spark West is the counterpart to Spark Cape Breton, which for the past three years has been helping to launch

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Ocean Institute Attracts $220M

  • Sep 07, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Government, private investors and academia came together Tuesday to announce $220 million in funding for the Ocean Frontier Institute, a new research group led by Dalhousie University.

The OFI, which is a partnership between Dal, Memorial

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Jobs of the Week: iWave, Porpoise

  • Sep 07, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Our Jobs of the Week column today highlights a couple of postings by iWave Information Systems, a P.E.I. company that helps non-profits with their fundraising efforts.

Based in Charlottetown, iWave has developed software that helps researchers,

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Spark Cape Breton Awards $225,000

  • Sep 06, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency last week awarded a total of $225,000 in development money to seven winners of their 2016 Spark Cape Breton Innovation Challenge.

The Spark competition is designed to find promising young

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McLaughlin Heads Startup Award List

  • Sep 06, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

John McLaughlin, Professor Emeritus and President Emeritus of the University of New Brunswick, has been awarded Startup Canada’s 2016 Adam Chowaniec Lifetime Achievement Award for the Atlantic Region.

The national organization dedicated to

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Briefs: Propel, Medved, Thorasys

  • Sep 06, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Palmer to Head Propel ICT’s Growth Program

Propel ICT, the Atlantic Canadian regional accelerator, has named Steve Palmer as the head of its new Growth Program.

The Growth Program, which the organization announced earlier in the year, is designed

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