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270 Attend Invest Atlantic in St. John’s

  • Sep 21, 2017
  • Azzo Rezori

Invest Atlantic, which bills itself as East Coast Canada’s largest networking event for entrepreneurs and investors, hopped the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the first time this week and came to St. John’s.

Having been held in Nova Scotia and New

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Sydney To Host Skaled Sales Event

  • Sep 21, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Cape Breton startup community will present a two-day seminar on sales techniques in the digital marketplace – a curriculum designed to attract participants from other parts of Atlantic Canada.

Momentum Cape Breton, the new group coordinating

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Solace, Byrne Sign Long-Term Deal

  • Sep 21, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Solace Power Inc., which makes wireless power technology, has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Byrne, a leading power and data solutions company located in Rockford, Michigan.

Solace said in a statement Wednesday that Byrne will

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How Startups Can Improve their Tweets

  • Sep 20, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Twitter is an effective tool for reaching a global market, but startups should try a few tricks to up their game when using the social media platform.

On Tuesday, a group of startup founders in Cape Breton had a chance to learn some hacks that can

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LearnSphere Offers $2.2M to Exporters

  • Sep 20, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

LearnSphere, a program that has helped small businesses in New Brunswick to export for 14 years, is now being rolled out across Atlantic Canada.

With new funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, the organization said Tuesday as much

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CDL-Atlantic Names 24 Mentors

  • Sep 19, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic, the East Coast component of the new countrywide innovation accelerator, has named its roster of mentors, which includes such national business leaders as John Risley and Ken Rowe.

Offered in conjunction with

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CloudKettle Names 1st Senior Partner

  • Sep 19, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

CloudKettle, the Halifax SaaS tech consultancy that advises major international customers, is hitting a milestone this week.

Founder Greg Poirier announced Monday that CloudKettle is bringing on the firm’s first senior partner in Jon McGinley, the

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Four Vie for NB Bioscience Award

  • Sep 19, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

With Global Biotechnology Week beginning Wednesday, New Brunswick biotech organization BioNB and the law firm McInnes Cooper will present the province’s Bioscience Achievement Award  this week.

The award recognizes the contributions made by one

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SomaDetect Making Waves in the US

  • Sep 18, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

SomaDetect, the Fredericton company that helps dairy farmers detect early signs of disease in their cattle, is becoming the most precocious of startups.

The company, which began only last year, is stringing together a list of accolades that is rare

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Jobs: CloudKettle, NBIF, Springboard

  • Sep 18, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

We have a range of posting in our Jobs of the Week column today, from the CEO of the organization that coordinates university commercialization to a tech consultant to a marketing manager.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is looking for a

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Spring Loaded in Lazaridis Program

  • Sep 15, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Months after launching its revolutionary knee brace, Spring Loaded Technology is entering the Lazaridis Scale-Up Program, one of the country’s leading accelerators for growth-stage companies.

The Dartmouth-based company on Thursday was named to the

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10 Join Lazaridis Scale-Up Program

  • Sep 15, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Lazaridis Institute this week named 10 growth-stage companies from across the country to the second cohort of its Lazaridis Scale-Up Program.

The Institute, which operates out of Wilfrid Laurier University, aims to help Canada’s leading

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