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Applewhite To Deliver R3 Keynote

  • Feb 14, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Ashton Applewhite, an ageism activist and author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, will present the keynote address at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s R3 awards gala on April 12.

“Ashton’s refreshing manifesto assures us

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Sona Nanotech To List on TSX Venture

  • Feb 13, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Sona Nanotech, a Halifax company that produces gold nanorods, has brought on board a new CEO from Great Britain and is preparing for a stock market listing within a few months.

In a statement in September that attracted little notice, the company

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Propel To Unveil New Program

  • Feb 13, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The regional tech accelerator Propel ICT has decided not to hold its customary Launch and Build cohorts this spring as it prepares to launch a new program later in the year.

Propel issued a statement Monday announcing that a new program is on the

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Our Virtual Pints and Pitches

  • Feb 12, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

If you were as disappointed as we were that Pints and Pitches was scrapped due to weather, here’s your chance to make up for it: Entrevestor’s Virtual Pints and Pitches.

The regional IT accelerator Propel ICT had planned to combine a pub crawl into

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We Need Survey Responses from NB

  • Feb 12, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

We’re approaching our targets with the 2017 Entrevestor Survey, but we still need more startup founders and CEOs to fill in our questionnaire – especially in New Brunswick.

This survey is the foundation for the data we collect on the Atlantic

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Jobs: Harbr, Dash Hudson, Forests

  • Feb 12, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Our job board is really full this week with a total of five openings from Dash Hudson, Harbr and Community Forests International.

Dash Hudson, a Software-as-a-Service company that helps clients optimize visual marketing strategies, hopes to hire a

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Supporting Forests in Canada, Africa

  • Feb 09, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Atlantic Canada’s woodlot owners could benefit from the growing tendency of jurisdictions to require businesses to offset their carbon emissions, said Daimen Hardie, executive director and a co-founder of Sackville, NB-based Community Forests

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China Program Launched in Halifax

  • Feb 09, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Institutions that foster education and innovation are banding together to run the China Program, a series of free events for innovators in the Halifax area.

The programming begins on Feb. 26 and runs on a further five days through March.  It is

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SMU Grad Chiang Dives Into Chatbots

  • Feb 09, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

When the chatbot-building company ChatFuel held a global competition for chatbot development recently, Halifax's Janet Chiang was delighted that her company, GoSky AI Digital Marketing, placed fourth. 

Taiwan-based GoSky is a global digital

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Curv’s Journey from Dal to Superbowl

  • Feb 08, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Shea Balish did at Super Bowl LII what Tom Brady couldn’t: he came away with a win.

Balish, who cut his entrepreneurial teeth at LaunchDal and Propel ICT, is now the Co-Founder and CEO of Toronto-based Curv, which uses artificial intelligence to

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Appili Raises $4.3M in Equity Funding

  • Feb 08, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics Inc., has raised $4.3 million in equity financing to further its operations and add to its number of drug candidates.

The company said in a press release it raised the money through a private

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Startup Weekend for Social Ventures

  • Feb 08, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The startup community in Fredericton is organizing Startup Weekend New Brunswick: Social Impact Edition, to take place Feb. 23 to 26.

Startup Weekends are part of a global movement in which people with an interest in starting a business come

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