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A Reminder to Complete our Survey

  • Feb 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Here’s one final reminder to please fill out our survey to help us get a better understanding of the makeup and opinions of the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

The survey is completely anonymous. And you’re asked to reveal NO sensitive

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Job of the Week: Dash Hudson

  • Feb 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The focus of the Job of the Week column this week is an opening for a sales development representative at Halifax-based Dash Hudson.

Dash Hudson helps clients analyze their Instagram and SnapChat data. It collects data on how major brands are

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We’re Teaming With REAP for Survey

  • Feb 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

We’re pleased to announce that we’re partnering with the Atlantic Canadian team at the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program, or REAP, to generate data on the startup community in Atlantic Canada.

As many of you know, Entrevestor has

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The Market for Sustainable Swag

  • Feb 10, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Pens made from recycled pop bottles and lanyards formed from factory scraps don’t sound particularly appealing. But Jane Mitchell, owner of Oyster Promo Inc., is building a business around companies’ desire to promote their environmental

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Affinio To Launch LinkedIn Product

  • Feb 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Affinio announced this week that it is launching a new product that assesses business sentiment by studying data produced by LinkedIn.

The three-year-old Halifax company has developed an advanced database technology that allows low-cost, real-time

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WellTrack Named to 500 Startups

  • Feb 09, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

WellTrack, the Fredericton company that provides online help with mental health issues, has been accepted into the prestigious 500 Startups accelerator in Silicon Valley – only the second Atlantic Canadian company to do so.

The accelerator group

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RtTech Grows 28-Country Footprint

  • Feb 09, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Keith Flynn is starting 2017 with more optimism than 2016.

The president and founder of RtTech Software, the Moncton-based company specializing in the Industrial Internet of Things, is bursting with good news. The company spent the last year

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IMV, Merck in Phase 2 Clinical Trial

  • Feb 08, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Immunovaccine Inc., a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company, has announced that its main drug candidate for battling cancer will go through a Phase 2 clinical trial.

The publicly listed company said this week that its DPX-Survivac

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QRA Launches QVscribe Product

  • Feb 08, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based QRA Corp., which helps manufacturers eliminate design flaws early in the development process, has launched a new tool to ensure everyone working on a project can understand the written requirements.

After a successful beta program,

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Plato Aims to Hire 1000 Native People

  • Feb 07, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

When Denis Carignan met Keith McIntosh 18 months ago, they didn’t realize their encounter would lead to a new business that has the potential to employ 1,000 indigenous people across Canada.

The business is Plato Testing, a Fredericton company that

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Lottery Outpost Primed for 1st Product

  • Feb 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Lottery Corp. will soon pilot a new product that came into being because it placed a bunch of geeks at the heart of Halifax’s innovation Hub.

The lottery organization, which is owned by the four Atlantic Provinces, will begin a

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Job of the Week: LeadSift

  • Feb 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The focus of the Job of the Week column this week is an opening for a software engineer at Halifax-based LeadSift.

LeadSift is building a sales intelligence platform that searches social media to help corporations understand people’s buying

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