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Microsoft Recognizes Kognitiv, T4G
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.
How Bonavista, NL, Attracts Young Entrepreneurs
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
UNB TME To Host 2 Events Thursday
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
Job of the Week: NBIF Finance Head
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
3 Trends To Watch in the 2nd Half
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
Ocean Supercluster’s Info Sessions
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
ROV3D Explores Oil Rigs
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
Feds, PEI Provide $4.4M+ to Somru
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
BC Exit Highlights PEI Bio-Ecosystem
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
MTI Buys Mediwise, Enters MedTech
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.
Fundmetric Signs Major Customers
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
C-Therm Opens New Facility; Receives ACOA Funding
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