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CareGuide Invests in Qimple

  • Feb 04, 2016

Toronto-based CareGuide, which owns several websites that help people find care-givers, has made a strategic investment in Moncton-based recruitment technology company Qimple.

Qimple Founder and CEO Yves Boudreau confirmed the investment in an

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Sustane Technologies Wins I-3

  • Feb 04, 2016
  • Sabina Wex

Sustane Technologies Inc., a Chester-based cleantech company, was named the winner Wednesday of the biennial I-3 Technology Start-up Competition, which recognizes the best new innovative business in Nova Scotia.

The company, which received a total

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Asiron Joins Masitek to Head Sales

  • Feb 04, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Pablo Asiron, the former CEO of award-winning Industrial Internet of Things company RtTech Software of Moncton, has joined another Moncton-based business-to-business enterprise Masitek Instruments Inc. as executive vice-president of global business

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Louisbourg Seafoods Launches Sea++

  • Feb 04, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

The fishing industry and technological innovation are being brought together in a competition that aims to solve problems for the fishing industry in Cape Breton and beyond.

Louisbourg Seafoods has launched a two-month contest, SEA++, that asks

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Proposify’s Recurring Sales up 1500%

  • Feb 03, 2016
  • Sabina Wex

Proposify, a software-as-service company that streamlines the proposal process, saw a 1500 percent increase in recurring revenue and 709 per cent increase in customers during 2015.

The Halifax-based company’s software simplifies and enhances the

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BDO Seeks Startups for VC Event

  • Feb 03, 2016

BDO Canada is looking for startups from across the country interested in pitching to venture capital investors at an event in Toronto on March 8.

The business consultancy and accounting firm is seeking applications for its first investor pitch day,

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BluePoint Says Kindera Sales Rising

  • Feb 02, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The story of how Antoine Boucher developed a device to protect children and teens from Internet threats is a familiar one to many parents.

Boucher, the Co-Founder and CEO of Kitchener-based BluePoint Technology, heard his young sons giggling under

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Singolar Headed to Silicon Valley CTA

  • Feb 02, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Singolar, a Wolfville, N.S., startup that uses advanced intelligence to help companies improve client interactions has been selected to attend the Canadian Technology Accelerator in Silicon Valley this winter.

The company – which now has two

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Communitech Unveils Rev’s 3rd Cohort

  • Feb 01, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Communitech today announced the four companies that will make up the third cohort of Rev, the Waterloo Region accelerator that helps companies with traction to scale.

The four companies are:

Alaunus, a mobile IT platform bringing outdated and

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Superpower Challenge Seeks Students

  • Feb 01, 2016

Brilliant Labs and its partners are looking for high school students in the Maritime Provinces to pitch their ideas for a new product or service in the Superpower Challenge.

Several student teams or individuals from each participating province will

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Jobs of the Week: NewAE, Onboardly

  • Feb 01, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Jobs of the Week is beginning February with a couple of opportunities at Halifax’s NewAE Technology Inc.

NewAE has developed technology to assist companies in finding the security weaknesses within their embedded hardware systems. The company is

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Digital NS Promoting Women in Tech

  • Jan 29, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

When Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia read about Deloitte Canada’s recent report on the status of women in tech, she had to agree with the dismal findings.

Deloitte looked at the way women are recruited and hired, their retention rates, pay, and paths to

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