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Puddister Wins EY’s EoY Award
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
ShiftKey, Dal CS Grow Together
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
Arolytics Preps for Oil Patch Change
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,
Venn Leads Mission to Money 20/20
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
Region’s Startups Eye Stock Market
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
Jobs: Dash Hudson, Protocase
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
Squiggle Park in Florida Accelerator
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
Clockk Launches Time Record App
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
Tickets Available for Manning Event
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
Talkatoo Raises, Preps for Launch
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
Atlantic Tech Summit Set for Nov 20
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
Kraken Lands $35M-$40M Contract
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
