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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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Mighty Pebble Unveils Miner Meltdown

  • Feb 24, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Charlottetown indie video game development studio Mighty Pebble Games has launched its first game, Miner Meltdown.

The company, which last year went through Propel ICT’s Launch program, said in a statement on Thursday the game was launched to the

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Pfera Eyes Pilot at PEI Farms

  • Feb 23, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Having taken home $5,500 at a pitching competition already this year, Lisa Pfister is now hoping her company Pfera can capture 67 times that amount in New Brunswick’s premier startup competition.

Pfera is a Fredericton-based biotech company that

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QuintilesIMS Is the Buyer of STI

  • Feb 23, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

American multinational QuintilesIMS, the world’s largest provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services, has identified itself as the buyer of Halifax-based startup STI Technologies Inc.

The U.S. company put out a

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Startup Zone Admits 9 New Members

  • Feb 23, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Zone, the startup house in downtown Charlottetown, said Wednesday it has accepted nine companies into its residency program.

Ranging from arts and culture to information technology to food, the new companies bring fresh ideas, energy, and

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MTI, Airbus Move Ahead with MetaAIR

  • Feb 22, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Metamaterial Technologies Inc. and its partner Airbus are moving into commercial production of metaAIR, and plan to manufacture the laser-filtering screens in the Halifax area.

MTI and the European aircraft maker held a news

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