5 Winners In Sprint Competition
Innovacorp has awarded a total of $125,000 to five winners of its latest Sprint Competition, which provides development capital to early-stage startups in Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia government’s...
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UNBSJ Opens Uptown MBA Centre
More than 400 people gathered in the old Scotiabank building on King Square in Saint John on Thursday for the official opening of the MBA program that has been relocated uptown from the University...
View ArticlePlease Help Us Help Australia
We’re absolutely thrilled with the response we’ve received to our survey campaign this year, and that we’ve already passed one-quarter of our target for help with Australian wildfire relief. Last week,...
View ArticleSidedoor Partners with SXSW
Concert venue marketplace Sidedoor has inked a deal with South by Southwest under which the Halifax company will organize short concert tours for bands participating in the Texas-based music festival....
View ArticleScale-Up Hub To Hold Info Sessions
The Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge project is organizing a series of information sessions to highlight the advantages of the program, which helps scaling tech companies grow in the Boston area. Sessions are...
View ArticleBloxo, Clean Catch Shine at Apex
Bloxo and Clean Catch Baits, a pair of enterprises that grew out of Saint Mary’s University, captured two of the top spots at the Apex Business Plan Competition in Fredericton last week. The two-day...
View ArticleBattling Cancer, Kevin Stephens Steps Back from Career Cinch
Entrepreneurship is notoriously tough on founders’ health. Kevin Stephens, founder of Career Cinch, is walking a rough path: he’s fighting a rare cancer and has had to withdraw from Halifax’s Volta...
View ArticlePropel Incite Phase I Seeks Entries
Propel, the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator, is seeking IT startups to participate in the coming cohort of its Incite Phase I program, which helps entrepreneurs establish their product-market fit....
View ArticleEOceans in Washington Maritime Blue Accelerator
Halifax’s eOceans, which is developing an online platform for gathering ocean data, has joined the latest cohort of the Seattle-based Washington Maritime Blue accelerator. The company’s Founder and CEO...
View ArticleCarbonCure Named Cleantech Company of 2020
Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, a company that enables concrete producers to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete, has been named 2020 North American Cleantech Company of the Year by San...
View ArticleHatch Names Four to Export Igniter
Planet Hatch, Fredericton’s entrepreneurship centre, has accepted four companies into the latest cohort of its Export Igniter program, which helps participants to scale in foreign markets. The fourth...
View ArticleJobs: Dash Hudson, Protocase
An opening for an Associate Product Manager at Dash Hudson in Halifax and two positions at Protocase in Sydney headline our Jobs of the Week column today. Protocase has openings for a Software...
View ArticleBDO’s VC Pitch Day in Halifax
Eight startup founders will get a chance to pitch before venture capitalists in Halifax during BDO’s VC Pitch Day. Now in its fifth year, VC Pitch Day connects Atlantic Canada’s tech entrepreneurs to...
View ArticleNew Deadline To Fill Out our Survey
Thank you to all those who have filled in our survey – the response has been fantastic! We’ve received 105 completed surveys in just a few weeks, meaning we’ll be donating more than $1,000 to...
View ArticleSMU Places Third at Boston VCIC
The undergraduate team from St. Mary’s University finished third this weekend in the New England finals of the international Venture Capital Investment Competition, or VCIC The team finished one point...
View ArticleWith New Structure, IWT Eyes Growth
Having adopted a new structure over the past year, Island Water Technologies is hoping to double installations of its Sentry unit this year, focusing on its key markets of California and the U.K....
View ArticleTrip Ninja Partners with A1 Travel
Trip Ninja has struck a partnership with Britain’s A1 Travel Deals under which the Halifax company’s FareStruture technology will be integrated with Globehunters.com, a subsidiary of A1 Travel serving...
View ArticleArsenault Wins GSEA Honours
Ross Arsenault, a Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer at Halifax oceantech company Ashored Innovations, has won the $10,000 first prize at the Canadian finals of the Global Student Entrepreneur...
View ArticleDensitas Breast Density Tool In PEI
Halifax-based Densitas, whose software helps assess the density of breasts during mammograms, has announced that Prince Edward Island has become the second province, after Nova Scotia, to integrate its...
View ArticleVerafin Named to 2020 Narwhal List
St. John’s-based Verafin has been named to the 2020 Narwhal List, becoming only the second Atlantic Canadian company to be named to the log of Canadian companies that raise a lot of capital quickly....
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