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Densitas Partners with U.S. Beta User

  • Feb 14, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based breast imaging analytics company Densitas has announced a collaboration with TeleMammography Specialists of Decatur, Georgia, that will improve the quality of breast screening offered to more than 60,000 women annually.  

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Propel Adds Six Board Members

  • Feb 13, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Propel, the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator, has almost doubled the size of its board with the appointment of new directors, drawing from its pool of graduates and the broader business community.

The group said its 14-member board includes

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Bringing AI to Building Design

  • Feb 13, 2019
  • Avery Mullen

A team of Dalhousie University faculty members is creating engineering software to partly automate the design of buildings, and has already arranged two pilot projects with its solution.

Smart Engineering, co-founded by faculty members Reza Rahimi

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Startup Canada Seeks Award Entries

  • Feb 13, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Canada has opened nominations for its sixth annual Startup Canada Awards – a contest that Atlantic Canadians have always done well in.

Startup Canada, whose mission is to promote and nurture startups and entrepreneurship across the country,

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Picomole Wins Funding for Diagnostic Lung Cancer Device

  • Feb 12, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Moncton-based medical technology company Picomole has announced non-dilutive funding for its breath analytics technology, which has the potential to be a low-cost and effective tool for cancer screening.

The announcement Tuesday revealed that the

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Novonix To Grow With $500K Loan

  • Feb 11, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Novonix Battery Testing Services Inc., which tests batteries used as alternative power sources, has borrowed $500,000 from the federal government to help develop a new manufacturing facility.

Bedford-based Novonix issued a statement on Monday

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Please Help Us With Our Survey

  • Feb 11, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Today, we’re launching our campaign to ask the founders and CEOs of Atlantic Canadian startups to take two minutes to complete our 2018 survey.

We’re working with partners across the region to enhance our annual analysis of the Atlantic Canadian

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US Tech Magazine Recognizes Harbr

  • Feb 10, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Harbr has been recognized as one of this year’s Top 10 Construction Technology Solution Providers by CIO Applications, a Silicon Valley-based technology magazine.

Harbr’s recognition is based on an evaluation of its capabilities in

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Jobs: Dash Hudson, Adaptiiv, CDL

  • Feb 10, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Three openings in Halifax headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Digital health company Adaptiiv is in the market for an Operations Associate, while visual marketing SaaS company Dash Hudson is looking for a Junior Customer Success

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Bend Beauty Aims To Be Global Brand

  • Feb 07, 2019
  • Jennifer Lee

A Halifax-based company has created a new skin care line that claims to treat your skin from the inside out. 

Bend Beauty is a high-end skin-care company that produces ingestible supplements that reduce inflammation in the skin and build its

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2 Exits That Shaped NB’s Ecosystem

  • Feb 07, 2019
  • Alexandre Silberman, Huddle

The idea for one of Fredericton’s latest tech startups was dreamed up on a hike in Scotland.

As Duncan McSporran and Ryan Groom, the co-founders of Kognitiv Spark cleared their heads in the outdoors and talked about augmented-reality software

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NS Social Venture Fund Launched

  • Feb 06, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Social Enterprise Network of Nova Scotia and the national Social Enterprise Ecosystem Project have joined up to launch the province’s first impact investment fund, the Social Enterprise Impact Investment Pilot.

The two groups issued a press

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