Startups Hired Strongly Last Quarter
According to data produced by LinkedIn, Atlantic Canadian innovation companies were on a hiring rampage last quarter. Concrete Ventures CEO Patrick Hankinson posted an item online Tuesday night saying...
View ArticleACOA Lends Rimot $600K
Dartmouth-based Rimot, whose technology helps to monitor remote infrastructure, has received a $600,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to help with international sales and...
View ArticlePanag Receives $500K ACOA loan
Panag Pharma Inc., which is developing cannabis-based pain treatments, has received a $500,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Business Development Program. The funding comes eight...
View ArticleMotryx Wins Women’s Fund Grant
Halifax-based Motryx, which produces sensors that monitor the storage conditions of blood samples during transport, has been awarded a $97,500 grant from the federally funded Women Entrepreneurship...
View ArticleJobs : Protocase, Dash Hudson
Our Jobs of the Week column today showcases openings for an R&D Software Developer at Protocase in Sydney and a Customer Success Team Lead at Dash Hudson in Halifax. Established in 2001, Protocase...
View ArticleNATI To Release New Strategy
The Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Technology and Innovation, with a new name and a new CEO running the show, is on the cusp of releasing a new strategy that will focus on startups and...
View ArticleBioInnovation Challenge Opens
BioNova is calling for early-stage life sciences startups from Atlantic Canada to enter the 2019 BioInnovation Challenge, or BIC, which will take place Nov. 5 and 6 at Pier 21 in Halifax. Now in its...
View Article3D Planeta Books Sales, Eyes Round
As it makes inroads into its key markets of defense and emergency response, 3D Planeta is prepping to approach investors late in the summer in the hopes of raising more than $750,000. Fredericton-based...
View ArticleBulletproof Wins Microsoft Award
Bulletproof, a Fredericton tech services company specializing in cybersecurity, has won the 2019 Microsoft Canada Modern Workplace Innovation Partner of the Year IMPACT Award. The award recognizes a...
View ArticleSmart Skin in $4.5M Funding Deal
Fredericton-based Smart Skin Technologies has received about $4.5 million in funding to help develop new quality assurance products for the pharmaceutical and beverage industries and expand its...
View ArticleUNB Demo Day Thursday Night
We’re closing in on Demo Day for the University of New Brunswick’s Summer Institute. The event will take place Thursday night at the Boyce Farmers’ Market in Fredericton. Doors open at 6 pm and the...
View ArticleCybersecurity Programs for Natives
Six First Nations students will graduate Friday from a Collėge communautaire du Nouveau Brunswick program in cybersecurity -- the first graduates in a new suite of programs to help indigenous youth...
View ArticleNautel Names Schmid CTO
Nautel Ltd., the Nova Scotia-based maker of AM and FM radio transmitters, has promoted Philipp Schmid to Chief Technology Officer. Nautel said Schmid was most recently leader of the company’s digital...
View ArticleMcGuire Eyes More Talent for Startups
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on our interview with ACOA President Francis McGuire. To Francis McGuire, the growth of Atlantic Canada’s startup community is above all a youth...
View Article16 Pitch at UNB Summer Event
University of New Brunswick on Thursday held its annual summer extravaganza in Fredericton, showcasing the companies graduating from two of its programs, including an all-female cohort at its Summer...
View ArticleMcGuire Aims to Aid Scale-ups
Editor's note: This is the second in a two part series on our interview with Francis McGuire. Francis McGuire draws an analogy with baseball to describe the Atlantic Canadian startup community, saying...
View ArticleJobs: Venture Manager at CDL
Our Job of the Week column today showcases the opening for a Venture Manager at the Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic in Halifax. CDL-Atlantic is an accelerator that brings startups from the region and...
View ArticleBrilliant Labs, Propel Get $5M
Two pan-regional programs for technology and entrepreneurship – Propel and Brilliant Labs – are receiving a total of about $5 million in funding from federal and provincial governments. The Atlantic...
View ArticleJobs: Venture Manager at CDL
Our Job of the Week column today showcases the opening for a Venture Manager at the Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic in Halifax. CDL-Atlantic is an accelerator that brings startups from the region and...
View ArticleColoursmith Moves into The Labs
Optical technology company Coloursmith Labs has a new home. On Thursday, the developer of specialized contact lens filters held an opening ceremony for its new headquarters in The Labs at Innovacorp—a...
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