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T4G Wins Microsoft Award

  • Jul 30, 2019
  • By Huddle Staff

Technology solutions company T4G is being recognized by Microsoft Canada for its innovative work with data.

The company, which has a headquarters in Saint John, has received the 2019 Microsoft Canada Data Innovation IMPACT Award. The annual

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Start-Up Yard Seeks Applicants

  • Jul 30, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp is calling for applications for the third cohort of Start-Up Yard, its incubation program for ocean technology companies.

Successful entrants must pay $2,000 to enter the program, but they then receive a grant of $22,500 in development

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ACOA Helps Velsoft’s Sales Focus

  • Jul 29, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

New Glasgow-based e-learning company Velsoft Training Materials has received a $150,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to facilitate its focus on international growth.

Velsoft’s product turns written training materials into

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New Oil, Oysters DNA Projects

  • Jul 28, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Projects using DNA tools have been announced by Genome Atlantic, the non-profit corporation that helps Atlantic Canada reap the benefits of genomics technologies. 

In the first, L’Étang Ruisseau Bar Ltée, the oyster hatchery seed supplier located

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LaunchDal Demo Day This Week

  • Jul 28, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

When LaunchDal holds its annual summer Demo Day on Wednesday, it will be the latest chapter of Mary Kilfoil’s seven-year mission to launch more startups from Dalhousie University.

LaunchDal is the organization within Dalhousie that mentors

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NACO, Invest Atlantic in Joint Events

  • Jul 25, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The National Angel Capital Organization and Invest Atlantic are teaming up this year to present three days of programing in Halifax with sessions on raising various forms of capital.

NACO, the national body for angel investing in Canada, will host

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BlueLight Names Nicolle as CEO

  • Jul 25, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Tech veteran Steve Nicolle has been named the CEO of BlueLight Analytics, taking over from J.P. Furey, who is no longer with the company.

Halifax-based BlueLight, whose technology measures the light dentists use to cure resin in fillings, issued a

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ACOA Provides Venn with $476K

  • Jul 25, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The federal government has given a grant of $475,685 to Venn Innovation to support its Venn Garage incubator.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency issued a statement Wednesday announcing the grant, which was made through the Regional Economic

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NL Genome Project Launched

  • Jul 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based Sequence Bio has launched its NL Genome Project, which will collect genetic samples from 2,500 Newfoundlanders with the goal of improving the development of new drugs.

The company has spent five years preparing to launch the

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Rimot Closes $1.2M Equity Round

  • Jul 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Rimot, a Dartmouth company whose technology monitors remote infrastructure,  has closed an equity financing round of $1.2 million, which it will use to help accelerate sales in Canada and the U.S.

The company issued a press release Wednesday saying

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Propel Brings in Maurya, GrowthX

  • Jul 23, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Propel has struck partnerships with Leanstack and GrowthX, which will provide curricula to be used in the Atlantic Canadian IT accelerator’s programing.

Leanstack is a business model platform created by Ash Maurya, one of the creators of the lean

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Eli Aims to Disrupt 911 Market

  • Jul 22, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Aiming to revolutionize the 911 emergency call market, Halifax-based Eli Technologies is in discussions with three countries and some of the world’s largest companies about the release of its platform in the next nine months.

The company has

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