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Checkmate Offered to Retailers for 6 months

  • Dec 08, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Authentic Business Initiatives, whose Checkmate Experience app helps shoppers enjoy a better retail experience, has launched its minimum viable product and is inviting Nova Scotian retailers to try it free for six months.

Checkmate allows shoppers

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DynaGen Bought by Cattron

  • Dec 08, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based DynaGen Technologies Inc., which manufactures rugged control panels for industrial engines, has been acquired by the American company Cattron for an undisclosed sum.

Dynagen put out a statement on Tuesday saying the sale has closed

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Beauceron Makes Strides During Pandemic

  • Dec 07, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton-based Beauceron Security has seen its annual recurring revenue increase by 60 percent in 2020, buoyed by more aggressive cyber-criminals and the specialized security needs of companies relying on remote work.

CEO David Shipley said in

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Fund for Researchers Coming to NB

  • Dec 07, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

After helping Nova Scotian researchers become entrepreneurs for 15 years, the Early-Stage Commercialization Fund is moving into New Brunswick.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, or NBIF, announced Monday that it is launching the fund in New

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NACO Summit Set for Thursday

  • Dec 07, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The National Angel Capital Organization, or NACO, will hold its virtual Atlantic Summit on Thursday, and aims to attract not only Atlantic Canadian viewers but also national attendees.

Amber Mac, former co-host of BNN’s App Central and Bloomberg

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Cyber Accelerator To Launch Next Year

  • Dec 03, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

CyberNB Inc. will launch a new accelerator for cybersecurity companies early next year, offering up to 20 companies a year programming, mentorship, and a six-figure funding opportunity.

The New Brunswick group that promotes the cybersecurity

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ClearRisk Named Community Champion

  • Dec 03, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based ClearRisk, which provides risk-management software, has won the 2020 RBC Business Resilience Awards in Newfoundland and Labrador in the Community Champion category.

Competing against a range of Newfoundland and Labrador

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Gaining 10,000 Clients with no VC

  • Dec 02, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

From his base in Truro, N.S., Brad Tousenard has built his IT company Delicious Brains into a global enterprise over seven years with about 10,000 clients in 140 countries and sales increasing each year.

And there are two things about his story

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NL Led Region in Revenue Growth

  • Dec 02, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Even if Verafin did not exist, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup community would have had a really good year in 2019.

Of course, Verafin does exist, and it did raise $515 million in equity and debt in September 2019. Wrapping up our look at

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Pioneering Cluster Employment

  • Dec 01, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

A Halifax human resources firm is pioneering a new service for clients that it calls “cluster employment”, which it hopes will improve working conditions for part-time or gig workers.

Placemaking 4G has launched the service that’s helping workers

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Energia Demo Day on Dec. 16

  • Dec 01, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Energia Ventures will hold a virtual demo day on Dec. 16, featuring the five companies from three countries that are completing its latest three-month cohort.

The program, which began Sept. 30, is part of University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert

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One Winner from Verafin: NL Government

  • Dec 01, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

There’s no shortage of winners from Verafin’s pending sale to Nasdaq, and one of the big ones is the government of Newfoundland and Labrador. The provincial government may haul in $100 million from the deal at a time when it could really use the

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