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Vish, Porpoise Pitch at FounderFuel
Vish Salon Tech and Porpoise, two emerging Atlantic Canadian startups, presented at the FounderFuel Spring 2017 Demo Day in Montreal this week, which coincided with the city’s massive Startup Festival.
Pitching before a roomful of investors and
Propel ICT Prepares for Fall Cohort
Propel ICT, the regional IT accelerator, is now accepting applications for its 2017 Fall Accelerator and will hold information sessions across the region for people interested in applying.
The one-hour sessions are intended to tell prospective
Moncton’s New Social Venture Project
Members of the Greater Moncton business community have launched a new initiative featuring an accelerator and funding vehicle to encourage the development of more social enterprises in the area.
Social enterprises are businesses created to further
Disrupting the Market for Graphene
When Mo AlGermozi and Marciel Gaier manned their booth at the recent Atlantic Venture Forum, they handed all visitors a three-inch piece of black, plastic-like material and challenged them to break it.
It was graphene, a revolutionary new material
10 Teams Emerge from UNB TME
The University of New Brunswick’s Master of Technology Management & Entrepreneurship program held its final pitching session Thursday night, allowing 10 teams comprising 13 students to present their companies to peers, mentors and local business
Jobs: Dash Hudson, BioNB
Our Jobs of the Week column this week features postings from Dash Hudson, which is seeking a Sales Development Intern, and BioNB, which has an opening for a Marketing and Communications Officer.
Halifax-based Dash Hudson has created a “visual
Armed with Data, IWT Plans to Scale
Island Water Technologies has completed the first installations of its Regen water-treatment facility, and those two projects are providing the company with the one thing it needs to win other contracts — data.
Based in Montague, P.E.I., IWT now
PEI’s Startup Zone Adds 3 Teams
Startup Zone, the hub for new businesses in downtown Charlottetown, has announced that three new companies have joined its business incubation residency program.
The latest companies to be accepted into the program are Shoplaw, Local Legends
Securicy Ramping Up Paid Beta Tests
When veteran tech entrepreneur Darren Gallop learned how hard it was to meet his partners’ demands for cybersecurity, it led to the creation of a new company that helps with such tasks.
Gallop is best known as the founder and CEO of Sydney-based
Evoqua Buys Fredericton’s ADI
Pittsburgh-based Evoqua Water Technologies has bought ADI Systems, Lange Containment and Geomembrane Technologies from ADI Group Inc. of Fredericton for an undisclosed price.
In a statement released Wednesday, Evoqua said the three businesses are
Moving to Cloud, Remsoft Adds Staff
Remsoft, the Fredericton company that produces predictive analytics software for the forest industry, is moving to the cloud, leading to one of the strongest staffing increases in its 25-year history.
The company, which now employs 33 people, plans
New Look in Sydney Startup Hub
The startup ecosystem in Cape Breton is changing, with the creation of a new program called the Momentum Initiative and the end of the ground-breaking UIT program at Cape Breton University.
The changes are taking place at a seminal moment in the