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WoodsCamp Sells to AFF

  • Jun 28, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

WoodsCamp Technologies, the Lunenburg, NS, company that helps woodlot owners manage their lands responsibly, has been acquired by Washington, DC-based American Forest Foundation for an undisclosed sum.

Co-Founders Alastair Jarvis and Will Martin

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EY Names 33 East Coast Finalists

  • Jun 28, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

EY, the global accountancy and business consultancy, has announced the list of 33 Atlantic Canadian finalists for its 25th annual Entrepreneur of the Year Competition.

The businesses of this year’s finalists employ almost 3,700 people. They record

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Energy Innovations Forum Set for Oct.

  • Jun 28, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Registrations are now open for the 2018 Energy Innovations Forum coming up on Oct. 1 and 2 at the Fredericton Convention Centre. The event will bring together members of the region’s energy sector to discuss changes to the electricity industry.

The

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Propel’s 12-Month Virtual Accelerator

  • Jun 27, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Propel ICT, the regional tech accelerator, has revamped its programing so its companies will soon receive curriculum online over 12 months, replacing the previous 12-week, in-person program.

The pan-Atlantic-Canada organization unveiled the new

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Feds, IBM Donate $6M to UNB

  • Jun 26, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The University of New Brunswick has received almost $6 million in funding from federal and provincial governments and IBM. The money will go to UNB’s Centre for Advanced Studies to develop new runtime software that will enhance a computer's workflow

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CoLab Software Raises $600,000

  • Jun 25, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based CoLab Software said Monday it has closed a $600,000 financing round from Pelorus Venture Capital, Killick Capital, and Panache Ventures.

CoLab has developed a collaboration platform that helps engineers and others work together on

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HotSpot Captures Region

  • Jun 25, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The folks at HotSpot Parking in Fredericton are celebrating the fact their mobile parking service is spreading across Atlantic Canada. HotSpot has logged over 100,000 parking sessions since its December roll-out in Halifax and nearly 12,000

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BioPort 2018 Unveils Speakers

  • Jun 24, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The keynote speakers for the 2018 BioPort conference will be Corrina Lathan, CEO of AnthroTronix in Maryland, and William Charnetski, Ontario’s Chief Health Innovation Strategist.

BioNova, which organizes the annual gathering for life

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Jobs: NBIF, Spring Loaded, Cribcut

  • Jun 24, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is looking for a new CEO, based in Fredericton. The non-profit announced last month that its leader Calvin Milbury was no longer with the organization. Since 2003, the non-profit innovation agency has invested

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Hankinson To Run Pre-Seed Fund

  • Jun 21, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Patrick Hankinson, a Halifax entrepreneur and investor who specializes in information technology companies, will manage the new $17-million-plus pre-seed fund set up by the Nova Scotian government.

The government announced Thursday that Hankinson

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ABA Cuts Autism Therapy Paperwork

  • Jun 21, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

When Mark Gauci, a retired veteran in Newfoundland, learned that his son had been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) he prepared for a huge lifestyle change. But one thing he didn’t foresee was the paperwork. Stacks upon stacks of it.

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B-Line Joins North Carolina Accelerator

  • Jun 20, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

B-Line, a cleantech Software-as-a-Service company based out of Halifax and Toronto, has received a US$50,000 investment as it takes part in the Flywheel New Ventures Challenge accelerator in North Carolina.  

In early June, five companies were

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