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Maskwiomin Eyes Sales This Year
By the end of this year, the Co-Founders of Cape Breton-based Maskwiomin hope to have a staff of up to 20 people producing traditional Mi'kmaq skincare products, and doing so in accordance with Indigenous business practices.
The company is
REDspace Named Halifax Business of the Year
REDspace, the Bedford, NS, IT company that employs more than 200 people, captured the Business of the Year Award at the Halifax Business Awards on Thursday.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary last year, REDspace builds flexible platforms for global
EduCode Signs Distribution Deal in Turkey
Moncton-based EduCode Academy has signed a distributorship agreement with Sebit Education and Information Technologies, which will be the company’s representative in Turkey.
EduCode creates online courses that help children learn to code, and its
Side Door’s Pivot Sparks Sales Boost
When the pandemic hit last year, Laura Simpson knew she would have to change Side Door’s business model. What surprised the company’s Co-Founder and CEO was the resulting 3,000 percent increase in ticket sales.
Since 2017, the company had offered a
Supercluster Unveils 3 New Projects
Canada's Ocean Supercluster, which is dedicated to modernizing the country’s ocean economy, has announced three new projects based in Nova Scotia with a value of almost $10 million.
The Atlantic Canada-based organization issued three press releases
FoodHack Honours Chinova’s Dhayagude
Natasha Dhayagude, Co-Founder and CEO of Chinova Bioworks, a Fredericton-based company that uses mushrooms to reduce food waste, has had her work celebrated by FoodHack, a global network of food entrepreneurs and innovators.
Dhayagude is one of 80
Outcast and Happy Planet Upcycle Smoothies
Dartmouth-based Outcast Foods, which makes powdered food products from rejected produce, has partnered with British Columbia smoothie producer Happy Planet Foods to combat food waste in a product range that uses upcycled fresh fruit and vegetables.
Ulnooweg, Ignite strike Partnership
Ignite Atlantic, Nova Scotia’s rural innovation organization, and the Indigenous entrepreneurship group Ulnooweg Development Group have formed a partnership to allow greater support for their members.
The partnership between Ulnooweg and Ignite is
DNS Membership Tops 200
Digital Nova Scotia, the association for the information technology sector in the province, has actually grown during the pandemic, and now boasts more than 200 members.
Since assuming the role of CEO last June, Wayne Sumarah has had to guide the
PDC Mourns Heather Boyd-Kinnie
Members of the startup community were saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Heather Boyd-Kinnie, the Funding Manager and Program Coordinator of the Pond-Deshpande Centre at the University of New Brunswick.
Boyd-Kinnie passed away at her home
Scale-Up Hub Atlanta Launched
The Scale-Up Hub program, which began in New England three years ago, is expanding to include the South-Eastern U.S. with the launch of Scale-Up Hub Atlanta.
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the four provincial governments on Monday
UNB: A Pillar of the Cybersecurity Community
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Sandy Bird still recalls the support Q1 Labs got from the University of New Brunswick long before it became one of the greatest Atlantic Canadian tech successes ever.
Bird was a co-founder of the Fredericton cybersecurity