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LeBlanc, Beaton Join Innovacorp Board

  • Jan 31, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp has named Nicole LeBlanc, Director of Investments and Partnerships at Sidewalk Labs, and women's leadership advocate Eleanor Beaton to its board of directors.

The Nova Scotia early-stage venture capital group issued a statement Thursday

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The Seasoning of PEI’s Ecosystem

  • Jan 30, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The pillars of a startup ecosystem – working spaces, university, funding agency, support organizations, network of mentors – have been in place for well over a year. A recent visit to the P.E.I. capital showed how these components are now maturing.

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Two NS Companies in Cleantech 100

  • Jan 30, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Two fast-growing Nova Scotian companies have been named to the 2019 Global Cleantech 100, an international list of companies deemed most likely to solve clean technology challenges.

Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, which is working to

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Yuill Heads To Peterborough, Ont.

  • Jan 29, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Martin Yuill will step down as the head of Charlottetown-based Emergence life sciences incubator next month to head the new Cleantech Commons in Peterborough, Ont.

Under Yuill’s leadership, Emergence has grown into a business development support

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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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