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Densitas Breast Density Tool In PEI

  • Feb 06, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Densitas, whose software helps assess the density of breasts during mammograms, has announced that Prince Edward Island has become the second province, after Nova Scotia, to integrate its software across its screening program.

The

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Arsenault Wins GSEA Honours

  • Feb 04, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Ross Arsenault, a Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer at Halifax oceantech company Ashored Innovations, has won the $10,000 first prize at the Canadian finals of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.

Arsenault, who is now completing the

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Trip Ninja Partners with A1 Travel

  • Feb 04, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Trip Ninja has struck a partnership with Britain’s A1 Travel Deals under which the Halifax company’s FareStruture technology will be integrated with Globehunters.com, a subsidiary of A1 Travel serving the U.K.

Trip Ninja is a software-as-a-service

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With New Structure, IWT Eyes Growth

  • Feb 04, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Having adopted a new structure over the past year, Island Water Technologies is hoping to double installations of its Sentry unit this year, focusing on its key markets of California and the U.K.

Charlottetown-based IWT last year took on capital to

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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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