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Puddister Wins EY’s EoY Award

  • Oct 17, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Larry Puddister, Executive Chairman of St. John’s-based integrated solutions provider Pennecon, is this year’s EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 Atlantic winner.

Puddister’s entrepreneurial journey started at the age of 12 in his hometown of Bay

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ShiftKey, Dal CS Grow Together

  • Oct 16, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

With computer science enrollment soaring at one of its key constituencies, ShiftKey Labs is developing programming to encourage tech entrepreneurship among students.

ShiftKey Labs is housed in the Goldberg Computer Science Building at Dalhousie

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Arolytics Preps for Oil Patch Change

  • Oct 16, 2019
  • Avery Mullen

The founders of a startup that aims to help oil and gas companies track their greenhouse gas emissions believe their business is poised for rapid growth.

Arolytics was developed at St. Francis Xavier University, where co-founders Liz O’Connell,

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Venn Leads Mission to Money 20/20

  • Oct 16, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Venn Innovation will lead a group of 10 technology companies to the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas from Oct. 27 to 30 with the goal of increasing sales within the financial services space.

The Atlantic Fintech Mission will travel to

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Region’s Startups Eye Stock Market

  • Oct 14, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Much has been written about the record year in funding for Atlantic Canadian startups last year, but one facet of startup fundraising in the region has been largely overlooked: the growing role of the stock market.

For the first time, high-growth

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Jobs: Dash Hudson, Protocase

  • Oct 14, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Our Jobs of the Week column today features openings for a Quality Systems Manager at Protocase in Sydney and a Junior Project Manager at Dash Hudson in Halifax.

Established in 2001, Protocase makes custom electronic enclosures. It focuses on

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Squiggle Park in Florida Accelerator

  • Oct 10, 2019
  • Eli Lusty

With its latest product generating weekly growth of 10 percent, Dartmouth-based edtech company Squiggle Park is attending the Rally accelerator in Orlando, Fla., to improve its performance further.

Co-Founder Julia Dexter was accepted this summer

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Clockk Launches Time Record App

  • Oct 09, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Almost two years after winning $25,000 at the first Volta Cohort pitching event, Paul Doerwald has launched his product Clockk, an automated time-tracking app for freelancers and small agencies.  

Doerwald not only launched the product Wednesday

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Tickets Available for Manning Event

  • Oct 09, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Tickets are now available for the reception honouring the Atlantic Canadian nominees for the 2019 Ernest C. Manning Innovation Awards, which present cash prizes totalling $145,000 to winners.

The Manning Awards are among the most prestigious

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Talkatoo Raises, Preps for Launch

  • Oct 08, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Talkatoo has raised $700,000 in equity funding and is on the verge of releasing its new voice-recognition software that can eventually be used across a range of platforms.

There’s been a bit of buzz about Talkatoo in Halifax tech

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Atlantic Tech Summit Set for Nov 20

  • Oct 07, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The first Atlantic Technology Summit is slated for next month, to provide a one-day conference for people who work in the IT field and showcase some of the region’s growing companies.

The goal of the conference is to bring together people who work

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Kraken Lands $35M-$40M Contract

  • Oct 07, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics announced last week that it had secured a contract with a foreign navy to supply it with mine-hunting sonar systems at a value of about $35 million to $40 million.

The maker of unmanned submarine and sonar equipment

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