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Quber Modernizes Traditional Saving

  • Mar 19, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Quber is a FinTech app that brings fun to an all-too-often overlooked aspect of personal finance – saving money.

When people think of personal finance, they envisage hot stocks, tech plays, hedging or getting the best interest rate. But

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Job of the Week: Jameson Group

  • Mar 19, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The focus of the Job of the Week column this week is an opening for a project coordinator at The Jameson Group of Halifax.

The Jameson Group organizes a range of events and projects across the region, such as Invest Atlantic, the Smart Energy event

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Covina Focuses on $1M Round, CTA

  • Mar 17, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

What’s striking about interviewing Caitlin Pierlot today is just how much she has grown as an entrepreneur in 18 months.

Pierlot is the co-founder and CEO of Covina Biomedical, a Halifax company that is developing a non-toxic bone cement to help

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Local Experts To Speak at Amplify

  • Mar 17, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The organizers of Amplify, a one-day mentoring event on growth marketing, have quietly added some tremendous speakers from Atlantic Canada to show local expertise in gaining clients through social media.

Held in Halifax on March 28, Amplify is a

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Axem Logs 3 Gains in 1 Weekend

  • Mar 16, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Though most early-stage tech companies are obsessed with landing equity investment, Christopher Friesen and Tony Ingram have just had the type of week that lessens the pressure to raise capital.

On Saturday, the co-founders of Halifax-based startup

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Waterloo’s Landmine Boys Win CBMC

  • Mar 15, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Landmine Boys, a group of University of Waterloo students dedicated to the safe removal of landmines, have won the fifth annual Canada’s Business Model Competition.

The competition, which rewards university teams that have researched their

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WEnTech: SaaS for Green Energy

  • Mar 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

WEnTech Solutions’ increasing traction with customers is a sign of how far the waste-to-energy market has progressed in the past few years.

The Fredericton company has produced software that can assess a proposal to convert waste into energy and

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Sydney Prominent in Propel Cohort

  • Mar 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The next cohort of the Propel ICT tech accelerator will have a distinctly Celtic flavor.

The regional IT accelerator announced today the 23 companies that will participate in the first 12-week program of 2017, and almost one-third of the companies

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Facilities Launch Regional Passport

  • Mar 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Several Atlantic Canadian service providers and co-working spaces have banded together to create a passport program, which allows startups to tap the resources of facilities around the region.

Growing out of the partnership between Planet Hatch in

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Jobs: VOX, EhEye, Dash Hudson

  • Mar 12, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

For our jobs column this week, we’re highlighting a pair of IT jobs in New Brunswick and a pair of postings on the business side at Halifax’s Dash Hudson.

In the Moncton area, VOX Interactif is looking for a web developer, while Saint John-based

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Sales Institute Opens in Montreal

  • Mar 12, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Canada finally has its first university-level sales program – something that Mariner Chairman Gerry Pond has been advocating in Atlantic Canada for several years.

HEC Montréal, a French-language business college in Montreal, announced last week the

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Fostering a New Sales Culture

  • Mar 10, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

At a time when Atlantic Canadian business people are being urged to prioritize sales, Momentum Canada has been founded in Saint John, N.B. to help foster the region’s sales culture.

Momentum’s programs include one that matches people who want to

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