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Jobs of the Week: Two at Protocase
Protocase, the Sydney-based manufacturer of custom electronic enclosures, is looking for an R&D Mechanical Engineer and a Mechanical Engineering Technologist, and these headline our Jobs of the Week column today.
Established in 2001, the company
UNB, Mount A Shine at VCIC
Two teams from New Brunswick universities placed highly in the Canadian division of the Venture Capital Investment Competition, or VCIC, last week. But as COVID-19 continues its spread, there will be no global finals for the winners to attend.
Springboard, NGen Plan East Coast Events
Springboard Atlantic is planning a couple of events in conjunction with the Canadian Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster to help the region’s manufacturers benefit from the Toronto-based manufacturing group.
The Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster,
Agyle Sees Further Growth in 2020
With its revenues increasing 500 percent last year, P.E.I.-based Agyle Intelligence is hoping to continue its sales growth in 2020 with new customers throughout North America.
Based in Mount Stewart, just east of Charlottetown, Agyle Intelligence
Region’s R&D Spending Improves
There are indications – nothing concrete, but indications nonetheless – that Atlantic Canada is beginning to improve its performance in research and development.
The region has historically been a weak player in Canadian R&D, especially in the
R3 To Honour 25 Research Mentors
In a change of format, New Brunswick’s R3 celebration this year will honour 25 mentors and instructors who help the next generation of researchers in the province.
Hosted by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, R3 celebrates applied research in
Metamaterial Trading Set To Begin
Metamaterial Inc., the company that grew out of Metamaterial Technologies Inc., expects its shares to begin trading this week, now that it has completed its merger with Continental Precious Minerals Inc.
The Halifax-area company said Friday it has
Lindsay-Sinclair Wins Rising Star
Eilidh Lindsay-Sinclair, Director of Marketing at Halifax-based SaaS tech consultancy CloudKettle, has won a Rising Star Leadership Excellence Award from Women in Communications and Technology (WCT).
WCT works to empower Canadian women to succeed
Jobs: CDL-Atlantic, Dash Hudson
Openings for the role of Director of the Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic, which is hosted by Dalhousie University, and for a Product Designer at Halifax-based Dash Hudson headline our Jobs of the Week column today.
CDL-Atlantic is an accelerator
Jaza Energy Closes $1.7m Round
Jaza Energy has closed a $1.7 million round of seed funding that will help it to install more green energy stations in Tanzania in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Based in Halifax and Tanzania, Jaza Energy sets up central charging stations in African villages
Craig, Jewkes Aim for Growth in NS
On the surface, MotionHall is a Silicon Valley tech company that helps people in the pharma and biotech spheres complete transactions more quickly. But CEO Rachael Craig likes to emphasize that her company has deep roots in Nova Scotia and hopes its
Feds Back Swarmio and Orenda
Orenda Software Solutions Inc. and Swarmio Inc., two Cape Breton IT companies, have received grants and loans totalling almost $1.5 million from the federal government to help them grow.
The government announced Wednesday that the companies will
