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Jobs: CDL-Atlantic, Dash Hudson

  • Mar 08, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Jaza Energy Closes $1.7m Round

  • Mar 06, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Craig, Jewkes Aim for Growth in NS

  • Mar 04, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Feds Back Swarmio and Orenda

  • Mar 04, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Sona, GE Partner on Covid-19 Test

  • Mar 04, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Sona Nanotech has announced a partnership with GE Healthcare Life Sciences to produce a rapid-response test for the Covid-19 coronavirus, which has sent Sona shares up into uncharted territory.

The two companies announced Tuesday that they will

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IWave Wins Bronze at Stevie Awards

  • Mar 04, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Charlottetown-based iWave, which provides fundraising intelligence solutions, has won a bronze award in the Best Customer Satisfaction Strategy category in the 14th annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service.

IWave offers clients a

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Shawn Smith Inks Deal with UConn

  • Mar 04, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Shawn Smith, a Fredericton-based neurodiversity consultant, has been recruited by the University of Connecticut to participate in a $2 million, five-year initiative to increase the participation of neuro-diverse students in engineering. 

Smith is

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ACOA Aids Bio Startups with $1.8M

  • Mar 03, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The federal government on Monday announced $1.75 million in loans to four Halifax-area life sciences companies to help with their expansion.

The four companies are Motryx (which will receive $500,000), Nxtgen Care ($500,000), IR Scientific

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Scale-Up Hub Applications Open

  • Mar 03, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge project is accepting applications for its 2020 program, which helps scaling tech companies from the four Atlantic Provinces to grow in the Boston area.

Nova Scotia Business Inc. launched the program in 2018 as a vehicle

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NSHA Unveils Medtech Pitch Events

  • Mar 02, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

The Nova Scotia Health Authority will organize five startup pitch competitions this year, aimed at identifying new technologies to help address growing problems faced by the provincial medical system.

Announced Friday during an event at the Volta

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Revolve Buys Code + Mortar Book

  • Mar 02, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-area marketing agency Revolve has bought the book of business of web development company Code + Mortar, formerly called Norex, for an undisclosed price.

The two parties announced the acquisition on Friday, as Revolve also unveiled the

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Jobs: SnapAp, Dash Hudson

  • Mar 02, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Our Jobs of the Week column today features openings for a pair of positions in the marketing sphere -- Director of Marketing at Moncton-based SnapAp, and Performance Marketing Manager at Dash Hudson of Halifax.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing

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