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10 Companies Join Scale-Up Hub

  • Nov 17, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Nova Scotia Business Inc. on Tuesday named 10 Atlantic Canadian companies to the Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge, which helps scaling companies find clients in the New England market.

For the past two years, the Scale-Up Hub has helped participating

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SimplyCast Aims for 100 Interns

  • Nov 17, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth-based marketing automation company, is aiming to hire 100 interns in 2021 to help post-secondary students thrive during the pandemic.

The company said in a statement on Tuesday that it will start by taking on as many as 30

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Oliver POS Teams up with Nexcess

  • Nov 17, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based Oliver POS has partnered with Nexcess, a major web-hosting company specializing in ecommerce, to help distribute its technology to more ecommerce merchants.

Oliver has developed a Software-as-a-Service product that enhances

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Mitacs, NBIF Launch Intern Program

  • Nov 17, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Mitacs and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, or NBIF, have announced a joint initiative that will pay $860,000 toward research internships at New Brunswick companies.

The two organizations announced Monday that NBIF is contributing $160,000

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Pegasus Biotech Joins Emergence

  • Nov 16, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Charlottetown-based contract research organization Pegasus Biotech is the latest bioscience company to join Emergence, the P.E.I.-based national bioscience business incubator.

Founded last year, Pegasus offers services that help to develop vaccines

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Mysa Launching Third Product

  • Nov 15, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based Mysa has pre-launched a new control for air conditioners, the third product in its suite of smart home temperature controls, and is reporting great demand in the pre-orders.

The company – whose corporate name is Empowered Homes –

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Supercluster Funds Three Projects

  • Nov 15, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Friday announced funding for three projects with a total value of $6.6 million led by innovation-driven groups based in St. John's.

The Atlantic Canadian group dedicated to funding ocean-related R&D projects in marine

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Saint John’s New Startup Facility

  • Nov 12, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The Block One Incubator has opened in Saint John, providing the Port City with a facility offering programs and working space for growing startups.

Five companies are now working at the 2,735-square-foot facility at 40 King Street, in the former

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MCE a Finalist at GCEC Awards

  • Nov 12, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

For the second year in a row, the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, has been named a finalist in the Outstanding Emerging Centre category of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers awards.

The GCEC held its annual conference

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Airesun Signs $150M Contract

  • Nov 11, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Airesun Global, a Cape Breton company that makes industrial oils, cleaners and lubricants out of seed oil, has signed two contracts worth a total of almost $160 million.

The Sydney-area company held a press conference Tuesday announcing it had

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Berhane Wins GSE Award

  • Nov 11, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Robel Berhane, Co-founder and CFO of Halifax-based Clean Catch Baits, has been named Global Student Entrepreneur for Atlantic Canada in the recent Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.    

Clean Catch is developing biodegradable, PVC-free soft bait

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LED Wins Export Canada Award

  • Nov 11, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based LED Roadway Lighting Ltd., which manufactures smart and low-energy street lighting, has been named a cleantech Export Star by Export Development Canada, or EDC.

Each year, EDC highlights the achievements of leading cleantech companies

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