With US$9M, Affinio Eyes More Brands
Halifax-based Affinio has announced a US$9 million (C$11.4 million) Series B funding round, with which it hopes to gain deeper penetration brand advertising for its consumer-analytics solution. The...
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Halifax Slips in Tech Talent Ratings
Halifax has slipped two places to eighth spot in CBRE ranking of Canadian tech talent markets, as the strong hiring boom of 2013-2015 lost its oomph. CBRE Canada last week issued the report titled...
View ArticleDensitas, EnvoyAI Ink Distribution Pact
Densitas, a software company that analyzes the density of breast tissue, has signed a contract that will help integrate its flagship product DM-Density into customers’ imaging systems. The Halifax...
View ArticleDensitas, EnvoyAI Ink Distribution Pact
Densitas, a software company that analyzes the density of breast tissue, has signed a contract that will help integrate its flagship product DM-Density into customers’ imaging systems. The Halifax...
View ArticlePropelICT To Host Pints and Pitches
Instead of startups pitching to one big audience, the folks from PropelICT have partnered with BrewHopper to offer something very different for its coming Regional Demo Day. Pints and Pitches, which...
View ArticleBringing Life to the Island Sandbox
Like the other managers of Nova Scotia’s innovation-promoting sandboxes, Darren MacDonald is an entrepreneur. He’s an ergonomist with more than 20 years’ experience of design thinking and seeing...
View ArticleGardner Named to Biotech Panel
Chris Gardner, the co-founder and CEO of Sequence Bio, a Newfoundland and Labrador genomic data company, has been appointed to the newly created federal Health/Bio-sciences Economic Strategy Table....
View ArticleAqualitis Set To Raise, Then Launch
Aqualitas, the Liverpool cannabis producer, is set to close a $6.5-million funding round with private investors next month, with the hopes of getting to market next year. The close of this funding...
View ArticleNBCC Offers Cybersecurity Program
The New Brunswick Community College has announced it will offer a one-year program in cybersecurity beginning next September. By introducing this advanced post-grad program at its Saint John Campus,...
View ArticleAshored Wins $3000 from LaunchDal
Ashored Innovations, a young venture that aims to help automate the lobster and crab fisheries, captured the $3,000 first prize at Dalhousie University’s Collide Fall 2017 Pitch Competition on Thursday...
View ArticleSmart Grid Project Gains Steam in NB
While Atlantic Canada’s nautical types are pushing ahead with the oceans supercluster proposal, there’s another major initiative in the region that has captured less attention but still offers great...
View ArticleJobs of the Week: Dash Hudson, NBIF
In our Jobs of the Week column today, we’re highlighting Dash Hudson’s search for a Sales Development Representative and New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s opening for an Investment Analyst....
View ArticleAcadia Award $10K to Startups
Three environmental studies students at Acadia University won $6000 to help launch their business Highway 101, a mobile food truck that serves healthy produce sourced from local farms. Emilia...
View ArticleTrispectra Aims To Help Fix Outages
Trispectra is a Fredericton startup dedicated to solving a problem common to pretty well every electrical utility – quickly finding and identifying faults on their grids. The company is made up of a...
View ArticleRovault Plans Pilot for Its Seafood Tech
Halifax-based RovaultAI has designed a marine camera solution that could potentially save $2 million per year for some of the region’s seafood plants. The algorithm-based visual recognition software is...
View ArticleHotSpot Closer to Regional Vision
The logo of Fredericton startup HotSpot Parking is about to become very familiar to Haligonians, as the company has won the contract to offer mobile parking services in Halifax. The four-year-old...
View ArticleCarbonCure Client List Passes 80
Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, creator of a process that buries carbon dioxide in concrete, has partnered with St. Louis-based Breckenridge Material Company and Eastern Missouri Concrete to...
View ArticleNS Commits $2.25M to Volta Labs
The Nova Scotian government has committed $2.25 million to the expansion of Volta Labs, which plans to triple the size of its facility in downtown Halifax. The government’s contribution to the startup...
View ArticleRtTech Software Sells Cipher Product
RtTech Software of Moncton has sold a key product to Bedford, Mass.-based Aspen Technology, providing a capital injection for the company and the growth of two operations in the Moncton area. Aspen...
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Daily Planet Features Chancellor
The Chancellor of the Universe, a game created in Halifax that features machine learning, augmented reality and robotics, has been featured on the Discovery Channel. Three weeks ago, we featured an...
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