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Rogers Fills In at Halifax Partnership

  • Jul 09, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

John Rogers, the former CEO of the law firm Stewart McKelvey, has been named the interim President and CEO of the Halifax Partnership.

Rogers will step into the position until the board of directors finds a full-time replacement for Ron Hanlon, who

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Spark Awards $590K to 15 Startups

  • Jul 07, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Fifteen Nova Scotian companies have won a total of $590,000 in grants through Innovacorp’s 2018 Spark Innovation Challenge.

The provincial government’s venture capital and innovation agency announced the winners on Thursday, capping off the second

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Room Service Offers Mobile Store

  • Jul 06, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

How much do you think hungover university students would pay for a Gatorade to be delivered right to them the morning after a wild bender? Five dollars and eighty-nine cents is what Johnathan Cannon in Halifax is currently charging with his business

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Yomes Open to NS Tenants

  • Jul 05, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The Yomes Initiative, whose digital product helps tenants gain intelligence on properties they’re considering renting, has opened access to all Nova Scotians as it plots its expansion into larger markets.

Until now, Yomes has been open to users on

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BioNova Opens BIC Applications

  • Jul 03, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Applications for the 2018 BioInnovation Challenge are open to early-stage health and life science companies in Atlantic Canada.

Contestants will vy for $25,000 in seed funding and advisory services for a total prize package valued at $55,000 to

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Terrapure Buys Envirosystems Assets

  • Jul 03, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Burlington, Ont.-based Terrapure Environmental Ltd. last week said it has purchased the Canadian industrial services and waste management operations of Envirosystems Inc., a private-equity-backed company based in Dartmouth.

Terms of the deal were

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Focus FS Lands $1.4M, Led by BDC

  • Jul 02, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based Focus FS, a Software-as-a-Service company whose products encourage safety in industrial worksites, has closed a $1.4 million funding round, dominated by a “quasi-equity” contribution from  BDC Capital.

The capital markets arm of

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RetailDeep accepted into XRC

  • Jul 02, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

RetailDeep, the Halifax company that is revolutionizing checkouts at brick-and-mortar retail stores, has been accepted into the XRC Labs accelerator in New York.

The company will receive US$100,000 (C$132,000) from XRC and will travel to New York

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Jobs: Protocase, Dash Hudson, Cribcut

  • Jul 02, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

We have four positions to showcase in our Jobs of the Week column today. Dash Hudson in Halifax is seeking two Sales Development Representatives while Cribcut, also in Halifax, aims to hire a Full Stack Developer.

And in Sydney, Protocase, a

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Energia Applications Close July 27

  • Jul 02, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Energia Ventures, an accelerator founded by the Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship Centre at the University of New Brunswick, has extended its application deadline until July 27.

The TME team issued a statement saying the three-month

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Somru En Route to $7M Raise

  • Jun 29, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

To help launch its new products, Somru BioScience of Charlottetown is raising a $7 million round of funding, and already has commitments for almost half this amount from government funders.  

During a presentation at the 2018 Atlantic Venture Forum

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Securicy Hosts Cybersecurity Webinar

  • Jun 29, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Securicy, the Sydney startup that helps companies develop cybersecurity programs, is hosting a series of free webinars to help small businesses protect themselves from cybercriminals.

The first webinar will be live-streamed on July 5 at 2 pm AST.

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