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Job of the Week: Dash Hudson

  • Feb 07, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today showcases an opening for a Renewals Account Executive at Dash Hudson in Halifax.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its

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McCain Takes Stake in Fiddlehead

  • Feb 04, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

McCain Foods has made a “significant investment” in Moncton-based Fiddlehead Technology, buying out existing investors in the predictive modeling company and positioning it for further growth.

The parties on Thursday would reveal no details of the

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2 Under-the-Radar Exits from 2020

  • Feb 04, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The second half of 2020 was the best period ever for exits in the Atlantic Canadian innovation community, creating wealth for founders and investors. In fact, we’ve recently learned of two under-the-radar deals that add to the growing number of

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LaPlante Named to Global AI List

  • Feb 03, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax’s Jennifer LaPlante, Executive Director of the oceantech artificial intelligence organization DeepSense, has been named in the DataIQ 100, a list of the world’s most influential data and analytics practitioners.

London-based DataIQ, a

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Educode Names National Franchisee for India

  • Feb 03, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Moncton edtech company EduCode Academy has named Foreign Scope Consultants as its first national franchisee for India.

EduCode creates online courses that help children learn to code, and its international sales soared last year as the result of a

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The Rounds Plots US Expansion

  • Feb 02, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The Rounds, the Halifax company that operates social networks for healthcare professionals, is gearing up for a major push into the U.S.

The company thrived in 2020 as the pandemic encouraged Canadian physicians to use a site on which they could

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ROCarbon, NSCC Aid IKEA Dartmouth

  • Feb 02, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

A Halifax startup and a team of Nova Scotia Community College students are working together to help IKEA Canada assess what to do with the excess solar power produced at its Dartmouth location.

The retail outlet near Dartmouth Crossing is the

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ACOA Lends $1.3M to 3 Companies

  • Feb 01, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is lending $1.3 million to three Dartmouth companies to help them launch or expand their operations.

The federal government’s regional development agency issued a press release last week announcing the

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Four Eyes Doubled Staff, Sales in 2020

  • Jan 31, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Saint John-based Four Eyes Financial doubled its business in 2020, and its founders see no sign of its growth trajectory flattening this year.

Co-founded in 2018 by Lori Weir and Kendall McMenamon, Four Eyes Financial set out to develop a digital

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Innovacorp Names 7 Sprint Winners

  • Jan 31, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp has announced seven winners of its latest Sprint competition, and will award $25,000 to each of them.

The Nova Scotia early-stage venture capital agency said Friday it selected the winners from 40 applications for its winter intake. As

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CHARBOYZ Business is Sizzling

  • Jan 28, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

A pandemic is a dodgy time to open a restaurant, but chef Jason Bourgoin knew he needed to leave the oil patch and get back in the kitchen. The result is CHARBOYZ boxed local meats that come with cooking tips, sauces and seasonings, delivered to

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Planetary Hydrogen Moves to Halifax

  • Jan 28, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Planetary Hydrogen, a cleantech company that has just moved most operations from Ottawa to Halifax, has declared the lofty ambition of removing a gigaton of carbon from the atmosphere annually by 2035.

The cleantech company, which launched in

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