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Alongside Buys CareerBeacon

  • Dec 15, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Alongside, the Moncton-based maker of human resources software, has acquired CareerBeacon for an undisclosed price, allowing the development team to take control of the job board and plot its expansion.

The Moncton company announced the purchase of

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Bluetech Founders: Please Fill Out Our Survey

  • Dec 14, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

At Entrevestor, we're in the process of preparing our annual data reports for 2021, including our first pan-Canadian Oceantech Data Report, which will be made available to the general public early in 2022.

If you head up an oceantech startup in

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IDG Communications Buys LeadSift

  • Dec 14, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based LeadSift, whose software helps tech companies identify sales leads, has been acquired by Boston-based media company IDG Communications for an undisclosed price.

The two companies issued a press release today announcing the deal, and

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Sankara Wins BMO Celebrating Women Grant

  • Dec 13, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Lily Lynch, co-founder of Saint John-based online multicultural marketplace Sankara, is one of 18 women recognized by the BMO Celebrating Women Grant.

Nationally, nearly a thousand women business owners applied for the grant that recognizes a

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Trophi.ai Races Through Seed Round

  • Dec 12, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based Trophi.ai, which is developing artificial intelligence software for e-sports coaching and eventually real-world sports, has raised a round of seed funding led by Halifax’s Concrete Ventures and several angel investors. 

Co-founded

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Volta To Host Media Relations Seminar

  • Dec 12, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

The Halifax-based startup hub Volta will host a seminar on media relations for startups next month, led by Entrevestor principal Peter Moreira.

The free seminar will be a hybrid in-person and online event to be held Jan. 12, starting at noon.

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Gaia To Produce Natural Gas for Rockets

  • Dec 09, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

A Saint John entrepreneur plans to tap Atlantic Canada’s high winds for carbon capture projects that she hopes will help power the space industry, with a working prototype slated for completion next year.

Tammy Cai is a Memorial University-trained

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DuaScript Wins Pitch & Pick

  • Dec 08, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

DuaScript, which makes software for compounding pharmacies, has won St. John’s-based Genesis’s Pitch & Pick competition, amid a field of heavily software-focused competitors.

The company, founded by pharmacist Jonathan Edwards, is building software

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Automating Archaeology

  • Dec 08, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Sponsored Content

When archaeologist Cora Woolsey conceived of the idea for a software platform that would help her peers gather and log data about their work, she drew inspiration not from her own field, but from the world of public health.

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BioTalent Warns Labour Outlook Grim

  • Dec 07, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

A report by industry group BioTalent Canada warns that the Atlantic Provinces face a potentially crippling labour shortage in the bioeconomy, deepening a staffing crunch that BioNova Executive Director Scott Moffitt and PEI BioAlliance CEO Rory

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Volta Launches Virtual Incubator

  • Dec 07, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax startup hub Volta is adding a virtual version of its Residency incubator program for companies based outside the city at a $100 per month price point, instead of the floor space-based invoicing system used for in-person companies.

Virtual

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Sentry Lands $1.9M from SDTC

  • Dec 06, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Charlottetown-based Sentry, whose technology gives utilities real-time analyses of their wastewater, has received a $1.9 million grant from Sustainable Development Technologies Canada, or SDTC.

Sentry, which uses real-time bio-electrode sensors to

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