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Microsoft Recognizes Kognitiv, T4G

  • Jul 17, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Kognitiv Spark and T4G were big winners Monday at Microsoft Canada’s 2018 Impact Awards in Las Vegas.

Fredericton-based Kognitive Spark, which uses augmented reality to help workers in remote locations, won the Innovation with Hardware category.

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How Bonavista, NL, Attracts Young Entrepreneurs

  • Jul 16, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Budding entrepreneurs in Bonavista, a town of fewer than 4,000 people on the eastern coast of Newfoundland, now have a place to grow and incubate their ventures with the opening of a business development centre, called The Commons.

The

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UNB TME To Host 2 Events Thursday

  • Jul 16, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

UNB TME – the six letters that spell student entrepreneurship in New Brunswick – will hold a mid-summer extravaganza this week to celebrate two of its programs.

The Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program at University of New Brunswick

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Job of the Week: NBIF Finance Head

  • Jul 14, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is looking for a new Director of Finance, which is the lone entry in our Jobs of the Week column today.

NBIF, which is also conducting a search for a new CEO, is a non-profit organization that leads

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3 Trends To Watch in the 2nd Half

  • Jul 12, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

We’ve just passed the halfway point of 2018, so this is a good time to check the pulse of the Atlantic Canadian innovation community. Note I wrote “innovation community” rather than “startup community.”

The key to understanding how this community

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Ocean Supercluster’s Info Sessions

  • Jul 12, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The Ocean Supercluster leadership team will be touring Atlantic Canada next week to host information sessions as it continues to build its operational framework.

The sessions will be an opportunity for stakeholders to hear updates from the

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ROV3D Explores Oil Rigs

  • Jul 12, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The offshore oil fields around Newfoundland and Labrador have birthed a city of underwater drills and pipelines that are hard to monitor. New software from WhiteCap Scientific allows oil companies to see and interact with these underwater structures

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Feds, PEI Provide $4.4M+ to Somru

  • Jul 11, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Charlottetown-based Somru BioScience on Wednesday announced it is receiving loans and grants totaling more than $4.4 million from the federal and P.E.I. governments.

The company, which is developing a range of products centred around antibody

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BC Exit Highlights PEI Bio-Ecosystem

  • Jul 11, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The exit of a life sciences company in British Columbia is highlighting the growing biotech ecosystem centred on Prince Edward Island.

Delta, BC-based Mazza Innovation Ltd. said Tuesday that it has been bought by Milwaukee-based Sensient

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MTI Buys Mediwise, Enters MedTech

  • Jul 10, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Metamaterial Technologies Inc. has purchased a British medical technologies company that brings it into the realm of healthcare for the first time.

MTI said in a statement today it has bought London-based Medical Wireless Sensing Ltd.

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Fundmetric Signs Major Customers

  • Jul 09, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Fundmetric, the Halifax software company that helps charities increase engagement with donors, has signed a slew of major new clients, pretty well doubling its annual recurring revenues in three months.

The company issued a statement on Monday

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C-Therm Opens New Facility; Receives ACOA Funding

  • Jul 09, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Last week, C-Therm Technologies from New Brunswick received investments totaling $267,500 from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to help expand its international marketing capacity and grow export markets.

The funding was announced at the

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