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Parados’s McCarthy Wins Mitacs Award

  • Jun 08, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Pascal McCarthy, CEO of Fredericton-based Parados Cerebral Solutions, is one of five Canadian businesspeople to win this year’s Mitacs Entrepreneur Awards.

McCarthy won the National Change-Agent Entrepreneur title. His company is developing a

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Self-Driving Ship Makes Unplanned Stop at COVE

  • Jun 07, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

As we celebrate World Ocean Day, Dartmouth celebrates the arrival of an autonomous ship.

Dartmouth’s Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship has an unusual and unplanned visitor: the Mayflower Autonomous Ship, which is recreating the 1620

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Focus FS, Dräger Target Ontario Mines

  • Jun 07, 2022
  • Ryan Bellefontaine

Focus FS, a St. John's-based workplace safety software maker, has deepened its partnership with German safety company Dräger to help increase sales in the Ontario mining market.

Focus FS announced Tuesday that it would partner with Dräger Canada

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Luminultra Shines at Business Awards

  • Jun 06, 2022
  • Ryan Bellefontaine

Biological diagnostic testing company LuminUltra Technologies was a double winner at the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce's Business Excellence Awards, held last week for the first time in two years.

LuminUltra won the Large Business Award and its

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H2O Conference Set for June 13-16

  • Jun 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia’s annual H2O Conference will be held this year from June 13 to 16 at the Halifax Convention Centre, with several attractions relevant to the startup community.

The event will include a panel on skilled

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Clever Fruit Joins Tasmanian Accelerator

  • Jun 05, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based Clever Fruit Products, which uses fermentation to produce fruit-based food supplements, will be one of 10 companies to participate in Australia’s FoodTech Tasmania accelerator as it looks to diversify its product offerings.

Clever

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PragmaClin Wins $47K from Bounce

  • Jun 05, 2022
  • Ryan Bellefontaine

PragmaClin, a St. John’s company that is developing software that lets Parkinson’s patients assess their condition at home, won $47,500 in the first ever Bounce Health Innovation Embryo Grants competition.

Bounce, the organization that supports

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Delicious Brains Sells IP

  • Jun 02, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Truro software developer Delicious Brains has sold a raft of its intellectual property to Austin, Texas-based WP Engine.

The deal includes five WordPress plugins — pieces of software that enhance website design tool WordPress — that collectively

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NBIF Event to Showcase AI in NB

  • Jun 02, 2022
  • Ryan Bellefontaine

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation this month will host a conference to encourage the adoption of artificial intelligence in the province.

The conference titled R3: Accelerating AI Innovation will take place at the Delta Hotels Beausejour in

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HotSpot Sale Targets International Growth

  • Jun 01, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The sale of Fredericton transportation software-maker HotSpot to Toronto engineering and technology company IBI Group grew out of repeated collaborations between the two businesses that highlighted their potential for resource sharing, according to

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EY Names Atlantic EoY Finalists

  • Jun 01, 2022
  • Ryan Bellefontaine

EY Canada has nominated 17 businesses, including several members of the innovation community, in the Atlantic division of the 2022 Entrepreneur of the Year competition.

The global consultancy used to announce regional nominees and winners in

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PEI Life Sciences Could Employ 3K by 2025

  • May 31, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

In its latest labour market white paper, the PEI BioAlliance predicts that Prince Edward Island’s life sciences cluster will employ 3,000 people by 2025 and lays out its plans to create an HR Excellence Initiative to advocate for HR best practices. 

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