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InspectAR Gets $850K in Funding

  • Jan 22, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based InspectAR Augmented Interfaces Inc., whose technology helps to simplify the production of printed circuit boards, has received an $850,000 investment from two American companies.

The young company, which grew out of the engineering

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Remsoft Names 2 New Directors

  • Jan 22, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based Remsoft, which uses data analytics to aid forestry companies, has promoted two executives to director positions to upgrade its data and analytics services and its sales team.

The company announced this week that Marie Eve Fillion

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Early-Stage Programs Now Open

  • Jan 22, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Now that we’re well into January, there are programs and funding initiatives for entry-level entrepreneurs opening up around the region.

There is an endless parade of budding entrepreneurs who need to test their ideas in early-stage programs and

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Kula Teams Up with Terminus

  • Jan 22, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Kula Partners, a marketing agency serving business-to-business manufacturers across North America, has become the first manufacturing-focused agency to partner with Terminus, the world’s leading account-based marketing, or ABM,

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Please Help Us With Our Survey

  • Jan 21, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Today we are launching our survey to capture data on the Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2019, and we’re asking all founders in the region to take two minutes to complete our 14-question survey.

We know how busy people are, so we have made

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PhotoDynamic Closes $2.3M Round

  • Jan 21, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based PhotoDynamic, Inc. has closed a $2.3 million round of financing, which will help to finance the launch of its teeth-cleaning product in the autumn of this year.

The company’s CEO Martin Greenwood told Entrevestor a year ago that the

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Jobs: CloudKettle, Protocase, 45Drives

  • Jan 19, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Our Jobs of the Week column today features several opportunities at such companies as CloudKettle in Halifax and Protocase and its 45 Drives unit in Sydney.

Halifax-based CloudKettle is a consulting company that helps business-to-business SaaS

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Catalfamo Joins Mariner Board

  • Jan 17, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Saint John-based Mariner Partners Inc. has expanded its board by adding venture capital veteran Joe Catalfamo, who once won a CVCA Deal of the Year award for backing Fredericton-based Radian6.

He will act as an independent director with founding

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Granville Biomedical Gains Clients

  • Jan 16, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

St. John’s-based Granville Biomedical is improving women’s health by 3D printing vaginal simulation products that allow healthcare workers to learn about injuries caused by childbirth, disease and genital mutilation.

The company, which formed early

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SDTC Grants SomaDetect $3.9M

  • Jan 16, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based SomaDetect, whose technology helps to detect disease in dairy cows, has been approved for a $3.9 million grant from Sustainable Development Technology Canada.

The two groups issued a statement on Wednesday saying the funding will

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How Doug Jones Developed Ignite

  • Jan 15, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

As improbable as it sounds, Doug Jones has turned a love of sports into a licencing business, then into an innovation hub in Yarmouth and then into an entrepreneurship network for rural Nova Scotia.

Jones is the CEO of Ignite Labs, the innovation

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ProcedureFlow Partners with Deloitte

  • Jan 15, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

ProcedureFlow , the Saint John company that helps companies’ employees find critical information quickly, has struck a partnership with Deloitte to penetrate new markets in North America and elsewhere.

ProcedureFlow, whose corporate name is Gemba

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