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Jobs of the Week: HeyOrca,Envenio

  • Mar 18, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

In our Jobs of the Week column today, we’re highlighting openings with HeyOrca in St. John’s and Envenio in Fredericton.

HeyOrca is a Newfoundland Software-as-a-Service startup that built a social media planner specifically for marketing agencies.

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Innovacorp’s $2M LightSail Bet Fails

  • Mar 16, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

LightSail Energy, the Silicon Valley cleantech company co-founded by Dartmouth-born Danielle Fong, has shut down, meaning Innovacorp will write off its $2-million investment in the company.

Based in Berkeley, Calif., LightSail was working on an

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Millennial Business Pitch Competition

  • Mar 16, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The second annual Millennial Business Pitch Competition is scheduled for June 1, at Planet Hatch. This competition is designed for Fredericton-area high school students to connect with the business community and show industry sponsors their ideas.

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Drawing Youth to Farms With Robots

  • Mar 15, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

To reverse the declining numbers of young Canadian farmers, Halifax-based Nexus Robotics is developing a weed-picking robot that makes the physical farm labour less grueling.

“Picking weeds sucks,” said Teric Greenan, the founder of Nexus.  “It

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ReadyPass, BrewHopper in Merger

  • Mar 15, 2018
  • Cherise Letson, Huddle

Two New Brunswick startups have merged and are now offering their products under a new company name.

BrewHopper, a craft beer tourism tech company and ReadyPass, a smart software company for transit agencies, are now being run by a new company

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Harbr Raises $1.75M Funding Round

  • Mar 14, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Harbr has closed a $1.75 million round of funding, having assembled a blue-chip roster of Atlantic Canadian business people as the core of its investor group.

The company is developing mobile technology that uses artificial

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SomaDetect Expands to Buffalo

  • Mar 14, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Fredericton-based SomaDetect, an agricultural data company that analyzes cow’s milk to moniter health and increase milk quality, has been growing fast and is showing no signs of slowing down.

The company has announced that it is expanding its

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QRA Lands $749,000 IRAP Grant

  • Mar 14, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

QRA Corp, an emerging design verification technology firm, has received funding of up to $749,068 from the National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program.

The Halifax company builds solutions for manufacturers and engineers that

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Rimot Launches First IoT Product

  • Mar 13, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

After two years of development, Dartmouth-based Rimot.io last week launched its Internet-of-Things product for monitoring remote infrastructure, like communications transmitters.

At the International Wireless Communications Expo in Orlando, the

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Techsploration Receives National Award

  • Mar 13, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Techsploration, a Nova Scotia-based non-profit, has been awarded the 2018 Leadership Excellence Award for Empowerment by the group Women in Communications and Technology.

The national award honours success in empowering girls to continue their

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Planet Hatch To Host Startup Events

  • Mar 12, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Planet Hatch in Fredericton will host two free events this month that will highlight how startups can receive funding and partner with corporations.

Opportunities New Brunswick will host the first one on Thursday. The day-long event, called Access

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Innovacorp Exits Kivuto; 12X Return

  • Mar 11, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp has exited from an investment it made last century, booking a return of 12 times in the process.

The Nova Scotia government’s venture capital and innovation agency said Friday that its portfolio company Kivuto Solutions Inc. has been

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