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Job of the Week: Sentinel Alert’s CTO

  • Jan 15, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

In our Job of the Week column today, we’re highlighting an opening for  Chief Technology Officer at Sentinel Alert of St. John’s. The successful candidate could choose to work in St. John’s or Halifax.

Sentinel produces software that can detect

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PEI Eyes BioCommons Expansion

  • Jan 15, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

With its life sciences segment pretty well doubling in size every four years, Prince Edward Island is on a mission to develop new infrastructure that can sustain that growth.

The PEI BioAlliance, a partnership between the various players in the

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Genesis Centre Marks 20 Years

  • Jan 13, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

The Genesis Centre in Newfoundland and Labrador turns 20 this year, a milestone that’s being celebrated with events that include MaRS on the Rock, a new partnership between the Genesis Centre and Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District.

MOTR, which

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Build, Innovacorp Back Dash Hudson

  • Jan 12, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Bolstered by signing major new clients, Halifax-based Dash Hudson has quietly closed a new funding round of more than $2 million to further accelerate its growth.

Dash Hudson, which provides data analytics for corporate clients using Instagram,

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Please Help Us with our Annual Survey

  • Jan 11, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Once again, we are launching our annual survey of Atlantic Canadian startups.

We can’t overstate the importance of this survey to our business. This survey helps to demonstrate to decision-makers the importance of the startup community in the

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Dal, UNB Seek Program Participants

  • Jan 11, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Two of the leading university entrepreneurship programs in the region – the Summer Institute at University of New Brunswick and Dalhousie University’s Collide program – are looking for participants.

Dalhousie’s Collide Winter 2017 program is a

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Build Ventures Preps for Fund II

  • Jan 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Build Ventures, the regional venture capital fund, is beginning to prepare for its second fund now that it has just over a year to complete the portfolio of its first fund.

The Halifax-based firm launched in 2013 with a $65-million fund, raised

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Goggin Talks at Moncton Cybersocial

  • Jan 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Peter Goggin, the Co-Founder and Vice-President of Operations at Resson, will speak Wednesday at the Cybersocial in Moncton.

The free event will take place at the Venn Centre on Main Street, starting at 5 pm.  

Goggin and his co-founder Rishin

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Bootstrapping Talk at Startup Grind

  • Jan 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Grind Halifax has announced that its next event will focus on bootstrapping and will feature Eric Bahn, who spent just $32,000 on a site that he sold for millions.

Led by entrepreneur Oleg Yefymov, Startup Grind brings in speakers for the

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Fitzgerald Replaces Garrish as CTO

  • Jan 09, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Spring Loaded Technology has named Stephen Fitzgerald as its new Chief Technology Officer, replacing co-founder Bob Garrish, who has stepped down for health reasons.

Armed with more than 25 years of experience in turning technology into products,

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Jobs: Startup Zone, Dash Hudson

  • Jan 09, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Our first jobs of the week column this year features an interim position leading Charlottetown’s newest incubator, and two openings at IT companies that have been on a hiring binge lately.

The Startup Zone in Charlottetown is looking for an interim

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3 Reasons Scaling Beats Launching

  • Jan 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Lately I’ve been writing more and more about the larger startups in the region because they have the biggest impact in terms of job creation, revenue growth and attracting capital.

I’ve never summed up in a single column why I believe the focus on

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