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Innovacorp Names Ray VP of Investment

  • Sep 17, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Andrew Ray has been named the new Vice-President of Investment at Innovacorp, and he has a singular priority: to see the Nova Scotia venture capital agency make money for the provincial government.

The Crown corporation announced last week that

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6 Takeaways from #SocialSydney

  • Sep 16, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

A sold-out crowd assembled Friday for Social Media Sydney, in which experts from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. gathered in the Cape Breton city to provide sage advice on using social media.

Organized by Nava Marketing, the event was designed to

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Nature’s Way Partners with NPC

  • Sep 16, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Nature’s Way Canada, a company that produces a wide range of all-natural health products, has formed a partnership with Natural Products Canada, a non-profit that commercializes natural product companies  in Canada.

The two organizations announced

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Jobs of the Week: 3 at Dash Hudson

  • Sep 14, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The silence has been broken after a few quiet weeks on our job board. Today, in our Jobs of the Week column, we're highlighting three postings from Dash Hudson, a visual media marketing company in Halifax. 

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing

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Data Shows Growing Core of Startups

  • Sep 13, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

It’s difficult to quantify the growth of a startup community year to year, but there is one figure from our 2017 Atlantic Canadian Startup Data report that demonstrates what’s happening in the space.

On Thursday, we're releasing the highlights of

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Hanatech Building IoT Dashboards

  • Sep 13, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Hanatech, an IoT solutions company nestled in Bedford, is getting ready to release a new integrated dashboard, called One Smart View, that lets its customers receive and manage their data.

IoT, or the Internet of Things, is a term that refers to

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Wagner named Climate Trailblazer

  • Sep 12, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Jennifer Wagner, the Executive Vice-President of CarbonCure Technologies, has been selected as a Climate Trailblazer as part of the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

Wagner is the sole Trailblazer chosen from Canada, this year. 

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Affinio Joins Microsoft Retail Project

  • Sep 12, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Affinio on Wednesday announced that it has joined a major project initiated by tech giants Microsoft and Adobe to help retailers and consumer goods companies increase their sales.

Microsoft’s new Intelligent Customer Journey for

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Starting Lean at CEED

  • Sep 12, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development is rolling out new programs on lean startup methodology for aspiring entrepreneurs.

CEED, a provincial business support and growth centre, is wrapping up its first installment of Fit to

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PEI Sees Benefits of Rounding out its Ecosystem

  • Sep 12, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Maybe it’s not a coincidence that the lone Atlantic Canadian company named to the Canadian Innovation Exchange this year is from the smallest province.

Maybe – or should we say probably – it’s the result of a methodical, multi-year strategy to

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Venture Grade Invests in Trip Ninja

  • Sep 11, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Saint Mary’s University's Venture Grade Fund made its first investment this week, contributing $15,000 to Trip Ninja, a startup for travel-planning. The investment was announced on Tuesday, at Volta Labs’ new event space in the Maritime Centre in

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Beauceron Join London Accelerator

  • Sep 11, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Beauceron Security, a Fredericton company that measures clients’ cybersecurity risks, has been named to the Cyber London accelerator program in the U.K.

Known as CyLon, the accelerator hosts cybersecurity startups from around the world, offering

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