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Jobs: HeyOrca, NOCland, CarbonCure

  • Mar 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Our Jobs of the Week column today features a few recent postings in St. John’s and one in Halifax.

NOCLand and HeyOrca are both looking for technical staff for their growing businesses. And CarbonCure Technologies is looking for a Director of

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Planet Hatch Partners with DMZ

  • Mar 05, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Planet Hatch, Fredericton’s flagship business accelerator, has formed a partnership with the DMZ at Ryerson University in Toronto.

The partnership with the DMZ -- formerly known as the Digital Media Zone – allows members from both organizations

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SkySquirrel Enters Dublin Accelerator

  • Mar 03, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

SkySquirrel, the Halifax-area company dedicated to producing agricultural data for the wine industry, has been accepted into the Alltech accelerator for agricultural technology companies in Dublin.

The 15-week program includes a bit of funding plus

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West Newfoundland Community Grows

  • Mar 02, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The entrepreneurship community in Western Newfoundland is taking on a more cohesive structure, with more than 100 members in its Facebook community and a recent pitching competition.

Humber Valley Entrepreneurs is a group of entrepreneurs and

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CarbonCure in $10M Contest in Alberta

  • Mar 02, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

CarbonCure Technologies has announced that it will receive as much as $3 million from Emissions Reduction Alberta, or ERA, to accelerate the adoption of its CO2-utilization technology in Alberta.

The Halifax company also said it will be competing

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NBIF Names 7 Breakthru Finalists

  • Mar 01, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced the seven finalists in the 2017 Breakthru competition – seven from New Brunswick and two in the national category.

NBIF holds its Breakthru competition every second year to find the hottest new

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Simptek Adding More Customers

  • Mar 01, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Fredericton’s SimpTek, a startup that aims to help utilities and customers understand energy usage through data collection, has been boosting sales in recent months.

The company produces software that acts as a bridge between utilities and

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EhEye Transforming Surveillance Video

  • Feb 27, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

James Stewart is a former cop, a specialist in data analytics and one damned persistent entrepreneur.

Having worked on two previous tech startups, he is now back with EhEye, a company that improves the performance and efficiency of surveillance

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Reycraft New Head of Techsploration

  • Feb 27, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Techsploration, a Halifax-based organization that encourages female high school students to pursue careers in science, trades and technology, has named Arylene Reycraft as its new Executive Director.

After spending 13 years as the Program and Fund

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3 Takeaways from STI’s Exit

  • Feb 26, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The news has leaked out in the last 10 days that STI Technologies of Halifax has been bought by the American multinational QuintilesIMS, and now it’s time to draw lessons from the sale.

The U.S. company, a global leader in services and data for

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Jobs: MASITEK, Leadsift, Repable

  • Feb 26, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

This week, we’re rerunning a few of our recent postings for our Jobs of the Week column.

We’re highlighting openings we’ve posted in the past month from MASITEK, Leadsift, Dash Hudson and Repable.

The Jobs of the Week column features openings

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SimplyCast Launches EmergHub

  • Feb 24, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

SimplyCast on Thursday launched its new EmergHub platform, fulfilling a promise that the company’s founder Saeed El-Darahali made to himself on the night of the SwissAir Flight 111 air tragedy.

EmergHub is a military-grade platform that allows

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