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MESH/diversity: Creating Inclusive and Safe Workplaces

MESH/diversity is a Saint John-based start-up that recently closed a $750,000 funding round to accelerate its growth, led by NBIF and our friends at Concrete Ventures. MESH/diversity uses behavioral metrics to help organizations create more diverse and inclusive workplaces. We recently caught up wit...

September 23, 2020
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5 Myths of a Start-up

If you watch television news, read a newspaper or spend any time on Twitter, you might have run into David Shipley, CEO of Fredericton-based Beauceron Security. Beauceron focuses on the human factors of cybersecurity, and David has become a go-to resource for journalists and others trying to un...

September 9, 2020
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Portfolio Spotlight: TurboPlay Is Firing on all Cylinders

Video games, the ultimate interactive entertainment experience, have been around for decades and have evolved exponentially as developers push the limits of technology to bring imagination to life. Today, it’s a multi-billion-dollar industry where the latest release can earn more than a Hollyw...

Negotiations- Is it winner take all?

I was watching a show last night and there was a typical scene where the Billionaire business-person was claiming that “this is a negotiation, and negotiations are what I do best”. The idea here is that one person would win and the other would lose. This scene led me to think about a Negotiation...

Gray Wolf Analytics is Taking Bitcoin Mainstream

Fredericton’s Gray Wolf Analytics makes a strong case for the link between academia, innovation, and economic prosperity. They are a start-up company that is a spin-out from UNB’s Technology Management and Entrepreneurship Center (TME). Center lead Dr. Dhirendra Shukla pitched the conc...