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Enriched Founder Program at AVF

  • Apr 26, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Venture Forum is seeking companies to present at this year’s conference and benefit from an enriched program of content for founders.

Companies have until the end of the day Tuesday to apply to present. You can find applications here.

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30 Startups Enter Incite Phase 1

  • Apr 25, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Propel, the pan-Atlantic IT support organization, has accepted 30 companies into Phase 1 of its virtual accelerator Incite – an increase of about one-third from its first cohort of the program.

Launched with 21 companies last fall, Incite is a

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Juniper BBQ Nears 100K Units Sold

  • Apr 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

A few years after leaving behind the tech game and St. John’s, Jason Janes has a new company with a distinctly low-tech product – wooden barbeque scrapers.

But here's the surprising thing: the young venture called Juniper BBQ Scrapers is showing

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Dal Launches 100K Competition

  • Apr 23, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Dalhousie University is inviting startup founders to apply for its annual 100K Competition, in which winning teams receive $10,000 in non-dilutive funding and entry into the university’s accelerator.

Dal’s 100K Competition, now in its sixth year,

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Using Startups to Spur Growth

  • Apr 22, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

One reason Jason Martell has grown his business Inside Out Cleaning Services so strongly in recent years is his partnerships with Halifax-area startups, which have helped him to adopt a growth strategy and new technology.

Based in Blockhouse, on

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Job of the Week: Protocase

  • Apr 22, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

An opening for an R&D Designer Software Developer at Protocase  in Sydney is the lone entry in our Our Job of the Week column today.

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

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Lobster Trap Co. Starts Manufacturing

  • Apr 18, 2019
  • B. Jack Morse

The Lobster Trap Company, which aims to build a more robust trap than is now available, is making its first commercial manufacturing run of its plastic product this lobster season.

The Yarmouth-based company started taking orders three weeks ago

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3 Reasons To Complete our Survey

  • Apr 18, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

We’d like to thank all the founders who have taken two minutes to complete our survey, and make another request to others to please fill it in – today, if possible.

Well over 100 founders have completed the 15-question survey, but we need more

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MTI Developing MedTech in London

  • Apr 17, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

In a research facility in London’s East End, a team from Halifax-based Metamaterial Technologies Inc. is toiling in a sector that’s not seen as the company’s core business.

They’re working on medical devices.

MTI is a specialist in producing

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Nodalblock Lands GSK as Client

  • Apr 16, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Nodalblock, a blockchain company based in Spain and Halifax, has secured healthcare giant GlaxoSmithKline plc as a client.

Nodalblock released a statement last week saying it had been selected to develop a blockchain-based solution for quality

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EY Extends EOY Deadline to April 30

  • Apr 16, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

EY Canada, the global accounting and consulting group, has extended the deadline for its 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year competition until April 30.

EY each year holds regional competitions across the country, and the Atlantic region in any given

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Appili Gets $476,000 ACOA Loan

  • Apr 14, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax pharmaceutical company Appili Therapeutics, which is working on a stock market listing, has received a $476,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Regional Economic Growth through Innovation program.

Appili is creating

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