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Job of the Week: CEO of Innovacorp

  • Apr 09, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp is looking for a new President and CEO to take the helm of Nova Scotia’s innovation agency in the spring of 2018.

Current CEO Stephen Duff will complete his five-year term next March and is not seeking a second term. So the agency is

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Grey Lit Matters Wins Fundica Event

  • Apr 07, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Cora Cole is moving on to the national Fundica Roadshow finals, where she will be pitching for a chance to win $1 million.

Cole is the Founder and CEO of Grey Lit Matters, a Halifax startup whose platform provides researchers with a targeted

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Stephen Fitzgerald Comes Full Circle

  • Apr 07, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

After a career that has included devising an experiment for the space station and creating the first carbon-fibre hockey stick, Stephen Fitzgerald intends to boost the bionic knee brace produced by Spring Loaded Technology.

Fitzgerald recently took

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3 Atlantic Startups at Aerospace Event

  • Apr 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

When the organizers of Montreal’s International Aerospace Week wanted to showcase 11 global startups in the aerotech space this week, the group of presenters included three companies from Atlantic Canada.

Agile Sensor Technologies of St. John’s,

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Smartpods Lands Big Sale with Feds

  • Apr 05, 2017
  • Cara Smith, Huddle

We hear about it all the time. It’s the curse of the modern office worker. We’re sitting ourselves to death.

So we see standing desks, treadmill desks and bike desks attempting to counteract the effects of sitting for hours on end. But a Dieppe,

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10 Startups To Pitch at Fundica

  • Apr 05, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Fundica Roadshow has announced the 10 companies that will pitch at its event in Halifax on Thursday at the Innovacorp Enterprise Centre on Summer Street.

The event will feature startups from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec, which will all

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Dou It Fresh’s New Hygiene Product

  • Apr 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

I witnessed the most extraordinary pitch last week — possibly the most compelling pitch I’ve ever seen.

It was delivered by a team of students in the St. Mary’s University Masters of Technology, Entrepreneurship and Innovation program. The team’s

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Vesuvius Crowdfunds Centauri Sequel

  • Apr 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Vesuvius Media, a Halifax-based game development company, will launch its new board game Centauri Saga: Season 1 Legacy Game on Kickstarter this Saturday.

The new game is a sequel to the original Centauri Saga game, which Vesuvius Media launched

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SNM Releases Anti-Smoking App

  • Apr 03, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

After several years in developing her product,  Hazel Harrison of St. John’s is launching the first part of her product to help wean smokers off cigarettes.

Harrison is the CEO of SNM Global Technologies – which stands for Smoke No More. The

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Jobs: Dash Hudson and Swept

  • Apr 03, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Dash Hudson and Swept, two of the companies featured at the Amplify conference last week,are looking for fresh talent in Halifax.

Dash Hudson, whose CEO Thomas Rankin outlined how his company used sales development reps to generate more paying

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NS Startups Doing Well & Doing Good

  • Mar 31, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

High-growth innovation companies are great because they promise to become major exporters and employers. That economic potential is wonderful. What’s even better is that so many of these company have a great social and/or environmental impact.

Last

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Keefe Interim CEO at PEI Startup Zone

  • Mar 31, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Zone, the innovation hub in downtown Charlottetown, announced this week that Doug Keefe would become its Interim CEO. The Interim CEO of the Startup Zone is integral to the continued development and management of Prince Edward Island’s

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