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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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Coloursmith Moves into The Labs

  • Jul 22, 2019
  • Avery Mullen

Optical technology company Coloursmith Labs has a new home.

On Thursday, the developer of specialized contact lens filters held an opening ceremony for its new headquarters in The Labs at Innovacorp—a facility on the edge of the Dalhousie

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Jobs: Venture Manager at CDL

  • Jul 22, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today showcases the opening for a Venture Manager at the Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic in Halifax.

CDL-Atlantic is an accelerator that brings startups from the region and elsewhere together with some of Atlantic

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Brilliant Labs, Propel Get $5M

  • Jul 21, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Two pan-regional programs for technology and entrepreneurship – Propel and Brilliant Labs – are receiving a total of about $5 million in funding from federal and provincial governments.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency said Thursday it

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McGuire Aims to Aid Scale-ups

  • Jul 18, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Editor's note: This is the second in a two part series on our interview with Francis McGuire.

Francis McGuire draws an analogy with baseball to describe the Atlantic Canadian startup community, saying a lot of young entrepreneurs have hit singles

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16 Pitch at UNB Summer Event

  • Jul 18, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

University of New Brunswick on Thursday held its annual summer extravaganza in Fredericton, showcasing the companies graduating from two of its programs, including an all-female cohort at its Summer Institute.

The UNB Technology, Management and

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McGuire Eyes More Talent for Startups

  • Jul 17, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on our interview with ACOA President Francis McGuire.

To Francis McGuire, the growth of Atlantic Canada’s startup community is above all a youth retention strategy, and he wants to accelerate

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Nautel Names Schmid CTO

  • Jul 17, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Nautel Ltd., the Nova Scotia-based maker of AM and FM radio transmitters, has promoted Philipp Schmid to Chief Technology Officer.

Nautel said Schmid was most recently leader of the company’s digital systems team. In his new role, he will lead

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Cybersecurity Programs for Natives

  • Jul 17, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Six First Nations students will graduate Friday from a Collėge communautaire du Nouveau Brunswick program in cybersecurity -- the first graduates in a new suite of programs to help indigenous youth participate in New Brunswick’s burgeoning

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UNB Demo Day Thursday Night

  • Jul 16, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

We’re closing in on Demo Day for the University of New Brunswick’s Summer Institute.

The event will take place Thursday night at the Boyce Farmers’ Market in Fredericton. Doors open at 6 pm and the presentations begin around 7.

Now in its sixth

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Smart Skin in $4.5M Funding Deal

  • Jul 16, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based Smart Skin Technologies has received about $4.5 million in funding to help develop new quality assurance products for the pharmaceutical and beverage industries and expand its markets.

The 11-year-old company has developed a

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