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SMU Places Third at Boston VCIC

  • Feb 03, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The undergraduate team from Saint Mary’s University finished third this weekend in the New England finals of the international Venture Capital Investment Competition, or VCIC

The team finished one point behind the silver medalists from Cornell,

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New Deadline To Fill Out Our Survey

  • Feb 03, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Thank you to all those who have filled in our survey – the response has been fantastic! We’ve received 105 completed surveys in just a few weeks, meaning we’ll be donating more than $1,000 to Australian wildfire relief.

But it’s not enough. We

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BDO’s VC Pitch Day in Halifax

  • Feb 03, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Eight startup founders will get a chance to pitch before venture capitalists in Halifax during BDO’s VC Pitch Day.

Now in its fifth year, VC Pitch Day connects Atlantic Canada’s tech entrepreneurs to some of the country’s top investors for the

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Jobs: Dash Hudson, Protocase

  • Feb 03, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

An opening for an Associate Product Manager at Dash Hudson in Halifax and two positions at Protocase in Sydney headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Protocase has openings for a Software Developer and a Junior Web Developer. Established in

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Hatch Names Four to Export Igniter

  • Jan 31, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Planet Hatch, Fredericton’s entrepreneurship centre, has accepted four companies into the latest cohort of its Export Igniter program, which helps participants to scale in foreign markets.

The fourth cohort of the program, which has already

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CarbonCure Named Cleantech Company of 2020

  • Jan 31, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, a company that enables concrete producers to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete, has been named 2020 North American Cleantech Company of the Year by San Francisco’s Cleantech Group.

This is the first

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EOceans in Washington Maritime Blue Accelerator

  • Jan 30, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax’s eOceans, which is developing an online platform for gathering ocean data, has joined the latest cohort of the Seattle-based Washington Maritime Blue accelerator.

The company’s Founder and CEO Christine Ward-Paige is the only remote member

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Propel Incite Phase I Seeks Entries

  • Jan 30, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Propel, the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator, is seeking IT startups to participate in the coming cohort of its Incite Phase I program, which helps entrepreneurs establish their product-market fit.

The pan-regional organization in 2018 launched

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Battling Cancer, Kevin Stephens Steps Back from Career Cinch

  • Jan 29, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Entrepreneurship is notoriously tough on founders’ health. Kevin Stephens, founder of Career Cinch, is walking a rough path: he’s fighting a rare cancer and has had to withdraw from Halifax’s Volta accelerator, but he’s sharing his struggles on

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Bloxo, Clean Catch Shine at Apex

  • Jan 29, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Bloxo and Clean Catch Baits, a pair of enterprises that grew out of Saint Mary’s University, captured two of the top spots at the Apex Business Plan Competition in Fredericton last week.

The two-day competition hosted by the University of New

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Scale-Up Hub To Hold Info Sessions

  • Jan 29, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge project is organizing a series of information sessions to highlight the advantages of the program, which helps scaling tech companies grow in the Boston area.

Sessions are now scheduled for Halifax and Moncton next

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Side Door Partners with SXSW

  • Jan 28, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

Concert venue marketplace Side Door has inked a deal with South by Southwest under which the Halifax company will organize short concert tours for bands participating in the Texas-based music festival.

Side Door matches musical artists with hosts

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