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Gardner Named to Biotech Panel

  • Nov 29, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Chris Gardner, the co-founder and CEO of Sequence Bio, a Newfoundland and Labrador genomic data company, has been appointed to the newly created federal Health/Bio-sciences Economic Strategy Table.

“Canadians are known for finding the better,

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Bringing Life to the Island Sandbox

  • Nov 29, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Like the other managers of Nova Scotia’s innovation-promoting sandboxes, Darren MacDonald is an entrepreneur. He’s an ergonomist with more than 20 years’ experience of design thinking and seeing experiences from the perspective of the user. It’s a

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PropelICT To Host Pints and Pitches

  • Nov 28, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Instead of startups pitching to one big audience, the folks from PropelICT have partnered with BrewHopper to offer something very different for its coming Regional Demo Day.

Pints and Pitches, which will take place in Fredericton on Dec. 12, is the

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Densitas, EnvoyAI Ink Distribution Pact

  • Nov 28, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Densitas, a software company that analyzes the density of breast tissue, has signed a contract that will help integrate its flagship product DM-Density into customers’ imaging systems.

The Halifax company signed the integration agreement with

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Densitas, EnvoyAI Ink Distribution Pact

  • Nov 28, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Densitas, a software company that analyzes the density of breast tissue, has signed a contract that will help integrate its flagship product DM-Density into customers’ imaging systems.

The Halifax company signed the integration agreement with

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Halifax Slips in Tech Talent Ratings

  • Nov 28, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax has slipped two places to eighth spot in CBRE ranking of Canadian tech talent markets, as the strong hiring boom of 2013-2015 lost its oomph.

CBRE Canada last week issued the report titled Scoring Canadian Tech Talent, which ranked Toronto,

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With US$9M, Affinio Eyes More Brands

  • Nov 27, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Affinio has announced a US$9 million (C$11.4 million) Series B funding round, with which it hopes to gain deeper penetration brand advertising for its consumer-analytics solution.

The venture capital round – the second-largest this

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Radient360: The Art of Development

  • Nov 27, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Late in an interview about his SaaS product for the oil and gas industry, Steve Taylor began to describe bringing in artists on his staff to enhance the software development process.

Taylor is the CEO of radient360, the St. John’s startup that

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Hyperloop Success Leads to CoLab

  • Nov 26, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

There’s a lot of buzz in St. John’s right now about a young company called CoLab Software, and a big reason is the story of how this startup started up. 

Founded by Memorial University engineering grads Jeremy Andrews and Adam Keating, CoLab is

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Techsploration To Back More Women

  • Nov 26, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Techsploration, an organization that aims to attract young women to science-related careers, is expanding its scholarship program with the launch of its 20 Scholarships to Celebrate 20 Years campaign.

The campaign has already received more than

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IP Seminar to be held at Planet Hatch

  • Nov 26, 2017
  • Jennifer Lee

Charlottetown-based life sciences incubator Emergence and Fredericton’s Planet Hatch are teaming up to host a workshop focusing on intellectual property strategies for startups.

Noel Courage, a partner with the Ontario firm Bereskin & Parr LLP

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Shukla Mulls What’s Next for TME

  • Nov 23, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

In the Engineering Faculty at the University of New Brunswick, there’s a lot of talk these days about what they refer to as “TME Next” or “TME 5.0”.

A familiar abbreviation on the Fredericton campus, TME stands for Technology, Management and

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