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NBIF Leads Avrij’s $1.2M Round

  • May 22, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Avrij Analytics, a Fredericton- and Ottawa-based sports analytics startup, has closed an equity funding round worth $1.2 million, led by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

NBIF said in a statement it invested $500,000 in the round, which also

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Alongside Works With CareerBeacon

  • May 22, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

CareerBeacon, Atlantic Canada’s leading job board, has teamed up with Moncton-based Alongside to launch an updated recruitment tool that focuses on mobile devices.

The job site, which is owned by the Irving family’s media company, Brunswick News

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Bringing VR to the Eye Doctor

  • May 22, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Virtual reality and augmented experiences have revolutionized entertainment and gaming industries. Now, Halifax entrepreneur Ryan Cameron is working on bringing this technology to a clinical setting.

His company Electric Puppets uses VR and

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Job of the Week: Sendwithus

  • May 22, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

A Software-as-a-Service startup in Victoria, British Columbia is our lone posting in our Jobs of the Week column today.

Sendwithus is a communications platform designed for email management by providing a centralized hub for email creation and

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Easy Golf Aligns with Association

  • May 18, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

When Todd Chant was developing his software for golf tournaments, he was worried about the narrow path to market. But he’s come up with a strategy that broadened his path to the width of the friendliest fairway.

Chant is the Co-Founder and CEO of

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Inboundli’s New Home in Halifax

  • May 18, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Gene Sobolev, the CEO of Innovacorp’s newest resident company Inboundli, was torn between three Canadian cities when deciding where to relocate from Berlin, Germany. The Start-Up Visa program put Halifax on top, and Sobolev moved his content

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BDC Lends $140M on East Coast

  • May 17, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Over the last 12 months, Atlantic Canadian businesses, including high-growth ventures like TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture, have received over $140 million in financing from the Business Development Bank of Canada.

The money is part of the bank’s

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5 Teams Split $125K at Volta Cohort

  • May 17, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Volta Labs on Wednesday night awarded $125,000 to five startups – including two from outside the Halifax area – in the second Volta Cohort pitching competition.

Backed by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, BDC Capital and Innovacorp, the

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Highline Relaunches Female Funders

  • May 17, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Highline BETA of Toronto has announced the relaunch of Female Funders Angel Academy, a national program that will help women become angel investors.

Highline, which supports and invests in new ventures, last year bought Female Funders and is now

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Spring Loaded Shows its Impact

  • May 15, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Spring Loaded Technology on Tuesday used a press conference to show what its Levitation knee brace means to the people who use it --especially to users who suffer from osteoarthritis.

The manufacturer held the media event at its Dartmouth

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Sayle Awarded BCIP Contract

  • May 15, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The Halifax company devoted to fostering a culture of safety in the workplace has been awarded a $551,770 contract through the Government of Canada’s Build in Canada Innovation Program.

SayleSafety, a Software-as-a-Service company based in Hammonds

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Cribcut Expands to Toronto

  • May 15, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

When Entrevestor featured Cribcut last spring, founder David Howe was deciding how and where to expand his company, which provides a software-enabled marketplace for mobile hairstylists. Almost a year later, Cribcut is expanding into Toronto.

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