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Innovacorp, NBIF Back Propel with $1M

  • Jan 29, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are putting up a total of $1 million to help companies in Phase 2 of Propel’s Incite accelerator cover the cost of executing their sales strategy.

The Nova Scotia and New Brunswick early-stage

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Racki Launches Book at Volta Tonight

  • Jan 29, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Those who know Kyle Racki as a Software-as-a-Service entrepreneur may be surprised to know about a project he did way back in grade school. The guy who would become the CEO of Halifax-based Proposify had to interview someone who held a job he’d like

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Bursity To Help Finding Scholarships

  • Jan 27, 2019
  • Avery Mullen

A team of students from Nova Scotia Community College is building an online platform to address a problem they know well: the cost of higher education.

Bursity.ca helps to match users to scholarships for which they are eligible, and automate the

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Job of the Week: Swept Account Exec

  • Jan 27, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax’s Swept, which makes software for the janitorial sector, is searching for an Account Executive, which is our Job of the Week today.

Swept makes simple software designed specifically for commercial cleaners. Its mobile and web-based

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Mariner Addresses Gap in Communications Industry

  • Jan 24, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Saint John-based tech conglomerate Mariner Partners has announced it’s developing software that will assist communication service providers as the industry moves away from physical network infrastructure and into software-defined virtual networks.

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Construction AI Eyes Partnerships

  • Jan 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Construction AI, one of the winners in the recent Sprint competition in Nova Scotia, is negotiating with two major software companies to adopt its technology.

Based in Mosquodoboit Harbour, NS, and Alberta, Construction AI has developed artificial

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Lobster Forum Set for Truro Tuesday

  • Jan 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Ocean to Plate, a one-day forum to discuss innovation in the lobster industry, will take place Tuesday in Truro.

The forum will bring together lobster industry players from all parts of the value chain as well as academics from Atlantic Canada’s

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What’s next in Nova Scotia’s ETC Reform?

  • Jan 23, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Nova Scotia government delivered half a reform on its equity tax credit last week, and it will be interesting to see what the other half of the reform will entail in a few months.

Don’t get me wrong. Last week’s announcement was a welcome step

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Kognitiv Spark Works With Northern UAVs

  • Jan 22, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Kognitiv Spark of Fredericton has announced a partnership that will help communities in the Canadian North benefit from the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs.

The company issued a press release today saying that it had formed an alliance

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CarbonCure To Be Added to 11 Plants

  • Jan 22, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Carboncure Technologies of Dartmouth has announced its client Irving Materials, Inc. of Greenfield, Indiana, is adopting the Carboncure technology at 11 of its plants in the coming months.

Irving now uses the technology at four plants, and the

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Barrington Edge Grows Portfolio

  • Jan 21, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based tech consulting group Barrington Edge has invested in a high-growth U.S. tech company and hopes to use the relationship to improve sales for Atlantic Canadian clients.

Barrington Edge, which grew out of the more established Barrington

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Pitch@Palace, Dream Summit Seek Entries

  • Jan 21, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Two upcoming events are offering Atlantic Canadian startups a chance to pitch before national or international investors and stakeholders.

Invest Atlantic is looking for East Coast startups to apply to pitch at this year’s Canadian Dream Summit,

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