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Sustane’s Deal Paves Way for Funding

  • Aug 16, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Peter Vinall emphasized that the announcement in Chester was a key step in a long and complicated process.

“It’s a big milestone for us,” said the CEO and Co-Founder of Sustane Technologies Inc. over his cell phone as he drove away from the event

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Jobs of the Week: RevIQ’s 4 Openings

  • Aug 15, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

RevIQ, the Charlottetown company that helps game-makers boost revenues, is our featured company in Jobs of the Week today with a quartet of postings.

The one-year-old company has been rapidly increasing its workforce and has now posted openings on

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Erin Flood Grows in COO Role

  • Aug 12, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

Three years ago, HotSpot Merchant Solutions was a small Fredericton startup. Today, it’s growing with a major U.S. partner. Erin Flood, the company’s chief operating officer, said growth is driven by prioritizing relationships and communication.

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WellTrack Near Closing $1M Round

  • Aug 11, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

There’s part of the WellTrack story that overshadows its pending $1-million funding, or even its efforts to double revenue every quarter this year.

It’s the tale of how CEO Darren Piercey decided one day that his COO Natasha O’Brien deserved a

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Briefs: Sequence, CarbonCure, Venn

  • Aug 11, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Incubators collaborate to deliver market intelligence

Moncton-based Venn Innovation said Wednesday that market intelligence services will be available to qualifying technology companies across Atlantic Canada through organizations that are part of

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Simms Returns to Genesis as CEO

  • Aug 10, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Michelle Simms has not only returned to the Genesis Centre. She is now running the St. John’s startup incubator.

Simms had worked at the Genesis Centre on the Memorial University campus for 14 years, most recently as Vice-President of Programs and

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NS Should Maintain VC Policy

  • Aug 09, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The closing of Unique Solutions has ignited calls for the Nova Scotia government to get out of the venture capital business. After four companies in the Nova Scotia Business Inc. VC portfolio have failed in 18 months, people on social and

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The Digital Side of Charlottetown

  • Aug 08, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Gillian McCrae smiled as she looked back at the makeshift stage where six Prince Edward Island digital technology companies had just pitched.

McCrae, the Propel ICT Vice-President, had just overseen her organization’s first Local Demo Day in

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Job of The Week: 4Deep Inwater

  • Aug 08, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based 4Deep Inwater Imaging, which makes cutting-edge microscopes that can operate in the water, is seeking a product verification/quality control lead.

The company makes advanced microscopes that can examine micro-organisms and other small

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New Programming at Planet Hatch

  • Aug 05, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

A method for streamlining access to entrepreneurial services is being developed in New Brunswick. The idea is to prevent service duplication, said Lisa Kinney, Entrepreneurial Services Coordinator at Fredericton’s Planet Hatch.

Chicago-born Kinney,

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Sequence Announces US$3M Funding

  • Aug 04, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Data Collective is leading a US$3 million (C$3.9 million) seed round of funding in St. John’s-based Sequence Bio, calling the company’s work in health data “a globally significant opportunity.”

The parties issued

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Unique Solutions Closes its Doors

  • Aug 04, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based body scan company Unique Solutions has closed down after burning through tens of millions of dollars in capital, including $5.6 million it raised from the Nova Scotian government.

A spokesman on Wednesday said that the company had

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