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5 Thoughts on the New Volta CEO

  • Mar 24, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

On Monday, Volta Labs announced that Jesse Rodgers will be the new CEO of the Halifax incubator for tech companies. Rodgers will be moving from Waterloo Region to fill the position next month.

Here are five thoughts on the appointment of the former

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Tory Calls for Innovation Corridor

  • Mar 23, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Toronto Mayor John Tory on Wednesday called for his city and Waterloo Region to work more closely to develop and promote the two cities as a single technology corridor.

Tory made the call during a speech to the Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of

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Aterlo Raises $1M, led by MaRS IAF

  • Mar 23, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Waterloo-based  Aterlo Networks Inc. has raised $1 million in venture capital financing  to help the company expand sales of its flagship product, Nightshift.

Nightshift allows households with weak internet connections to download high-volume

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Halifax’s InNetwork Acquired by gShift

  • Mar 22, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

InNetwork, the Halifax marketing startup that helps clients spread their messages through influencers, has been acquired by Barrie, Ont.-based gShift.

GShift announced the all-stock deal in a statement Monday, but declined to place any value on the

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Volta Hires Jesse Rodgers as CEO

  • Mar 22, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax’s Volta Labs has named Jesse Rodgers, the founding director of both Velocity and the Creative Destruction Lab, as its new CEO.

The startup house, which offers office space and mentoring to tech statups, has been looking for a CEO since last

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RevIQ To Double Staff in 2nd Quarter

  • Mar 22, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

A new Charlottetown firm that helps game and app developers increase income has tripled its staff in six months and plans to double it again by Canada Day.

As it is now structured, RevIQ is more a service company than a conventional product-based

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Celebrating Youth Entrepreneurship

  • Mar 21, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canada last week hosted a flurry of youth and student entrepreneurship events, with hundreds of participants and cash prizes totaling thousands of dollars.

The highest profile event was YES Atlantic, or the Youth Entrepreneur Summit, in

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Job of the Week: Sequence Bio

  • Mar 21, 2016
  • Scott Moreira

Today in Job of the Week, we are featuring an opening for Manager of Technical Development at Sequence Bio of St. John’s.

Founded in 2013, Sequence works with partners to analyze vast sets of data from gene pools to get a deeper understanding of

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Agile Signs Deal with China’s Gaitech

  • Mar 18, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Agile Sensor Technologies Inc., a St. John’s maker of components for the robotics industry, has landed six figures in funding from and a partnership agreement with Gaitech International Limited of Shanghai, China.

Agile CEO Brian Terry said in an

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Can Entrepreneurship Save Us?

  • Mar 17, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

So Maclean’s magazine has touched quite a nerve in New Brunswick.

The national weekly this month published an article with the apocalyptic title, “Can anything save New Brunswick?”

As expected, it catalogued a litany of problems, from the aging

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Alaunus Sets Sites Beyond Ontario

  • Mar 17, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

With thousands of carers now using its software in Ontario, Alaunus is working on a plan to extend its reach into other Canadian provinces and the U.S.

The Waterloo-based company’s HealthPlanr software helps home-care agencies organize their

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R3 to Honour 3 NB Researchers

  • Mar 16, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Three leading New Brunswick researchers will be honoured in Fredericton next Wednesday at the R3 Gala, which celebrates the innovations of the province’s top applied researchers.

They are: Liuchen Chang, NSERC Chair of Environmental Design

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