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Start-Up Yard Seeks Ocean Innovators

  • Feb 27, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Just months after opening, the cavernous COVE (Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship) building in Dartmouth is feeling lived in, with residents gathering over screens and sharing pizza. But there is room for more innovators and the newest

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The Changing Focus of Due Diligence

  • Feb 27, 2019
  • By Giles Crouch

In the heady days of the first dot-com boom, a sketch on a napkin and a sparkle in a coder’s eye could net a nice seed round from angel investors. Subsequent rounds, it seemed, would flow like chocolate at a fondue party.

Then the bubble burst and

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A Reminder to Complete our Survey

  • Feb 26, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Thank you very much to everyone who has already taken the time to fill out our 2018 survey. And we’re asking founders  and CEOs who haven’t yet got round to it to please take two minutes to fill it in.

Early next month, we will contact founders,

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ReelData Poised to Launch Pilots

  • Feb 26, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Matt Zimola and Hossein Salimian have post-graduate degrees in computer science, yet they have found themselves immersed in the world of aquaculture.

They are two of the co-founders of ReelData, a Halifax startup that uses artificial intelligence

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IdeaHub Accepts Seven Startups

  • Feb 26, 2019
  • B. Jack Morse

The Emera ideaHUB, Dalhousie University’s new incubator for companies building physical products, has accepted its first seven resident companies, and has room for more.

The goal of ideaHUB is to provide working space and mentorship for companies

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SMU Places 2nd Again at VCIC

  • Feb 24, 2019
  • Avery Mullen

For the second year in a row, a team of under-graduates from Saint Mary’s University's Sobey School of Business has placed second in the New England edition of the world’s largest venture capital competition.

Students from seventy universities

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Jobs of the Week: 2 at Dash Hudson

  • Feb 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Dash Hudson, the fast-growing visual marketing company, has a pair of openings at its Halifax headquarters, and they headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

The Halifax-based company has an opening for a Sales Development Representative and a

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AVSS Joins NASA Project in Reno

  • Feb 22, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

It’s a big deal when a startup finds a partner with global reach, but AVSS of New Brunswick has just found a partner whose operations extend to the far reaches of the galaxy.

Rothesay-based AVSS announced this week that it is working with the

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Volta Cohort Entries Open Till April 3

  • Feb 21, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Volta, Canada’s East Coast innovation hub, has opened applications for the fourth edition of its Volta Cohort pitching competition, which promises investment of as much as $25,000 to each winner.

Halifax-based Volta began the Volta Cohort two years

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Influitive To Open Halifax Office

  • Feb 20, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Influitive, a Toronto-based customer advocacy platform provider, is in the process of opening a Halifax office, which it refers to as its second Canadian headquarters.

The company was in the news last week when it announced a $10 million equity and

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BioLoggers’ $125K Post-Pivot Raise

  • Feb 20, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

If a pre-seed company can raise $125,000 from angel investors in 10 minutes, it’s obvious the company has done something right.

In the case of Maritime BioLoggers, what they did right was pivot to help hospitals and pharmaceutical companies improve

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Hacking Health Set for March in NL

  • Feb 19, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Bounce Health Innovation, the life sciences support group in Newfoundland and Labrador, will hold its second annual Hacking Health St. John’s Hackathon on March 1-3.

Like Startup Weekend, Hacking Health is an international organization that brings

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