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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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Please Help Us Help Australia

  • Jan 28, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

We’re absolutely thrilled with the response we’ve received to our survey campaign this year, and that we’ve already passed one-quarter of our target for help with Australian wildfire relief.

Last week, we launched our annual survey, which helps us

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UNBSJ Opens Uptown MBA Centre

  • Jan 27, 2020
  • Mark Leger, Huddle

 

More than 400 people gathered in the old Scotiabank building on King Square in Saint John on Thursday for the official opening of the MBA program that has been relocated uptown from the University of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus in Tucker

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5 Winners In Sprint Competition

  • Jan 26, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp has awarded a total of $125,000 to five winners of its latest Sprint Competition, which provides development capital to early-stage startups in Nova Scotia.

The Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency on Thursday

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NBIF Backs Concrete with $500K

  • Jan 24, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has invested $500,000 in Concrete Ventures, the Halifax-based venture capital firm that began investing in early-stage Atlantic Canadian companies last year.

Fredericton-based NBIF said in a statement that it

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A Chat with Britain’s Lord Flight

  • Jan 23, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

With one eye on the cell phone before him, Lord Flight launched into a promotion of a subject dear to his heart – investment tax credits as a means of encouraging entrepreneurship.

I had come to his home in Westminster to interview him, and he

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