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UNB Teaches Founders Self-Care
A new course that helps entrepreneurs cope with the stresses of forming their own businesses has got off to a promising start at the University of New Brunswick.
Organizers hope that Entrepreneurial Resilience, which is a full-credit course, will
Jobs: Propel Seeks EIR in Halifax
Propel, the regional tech accelerator, is looking for an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in Halifax, and that opening headlines our Job of the Week column today.
The pan-regional organization offers a virtual accelerator called Incite – Phase 1 helps
Verafin Named to 2020 Narwhal List
St. John’s-based Verafin has been named to the 2020 Narwhal List, becoming only the second Atlantic Canadian company to be named to the log of Canadian companies that raise a lot of capital quickly.
Verafin made the list on the strength of its $515
Densitas Breast Density Tool In PEI
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
Arsenault Wins GSEA Honours
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
Trip Ninja Partners with A1 Travel
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
With New Structure, IWT Eyes Growth
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
SMU Places Third at Boston VCIC
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,
New Deadline To Fill Out Our Survey
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
BDO’s VC Pitch Day in Halifax
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
Jobs: Dash Hudson, Protocase
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
Hatch Names Four to Export Igniter
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
