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A Sydney-based company developing technology that protects companies and governments against website and network attacks is receiving a $100,000 seed investment from Innovacorp to implement its go-to-market plan.

Below you’ll find descriptions of the zone winners, sector winners and provincial winner in Innovacorp’s 2013-2014 I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition.

Publicis Modem, a global digital agency network that works with world-class companies in more than 40 countries and has over 1,000 digital employees, has partnered with LeadSift (an Innovacorp portfolio company – woot!) to help its clients drive real results from social media. READ MORE HERE.

Five Nova Scotia start-ups have each won $100,000 in cash and in-kind services as zone winners of a competition to find and support high potential early-stage Nova Scotia knowledge-based companies.

NOTE: A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE WINNERS IS AVAILABLE HERE.

Innovacorp has announced the zone winners in the 2013-2014 provincial I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition, a competition to find and support high potential early-stage Nova Scotia knowledge-based companies. (Winner descriptions are below.)

In the few months since its launch in late 2013, major bottling and packaging companies in Europe and North America have rushed to deploy Smart Skin Technologies’ Quantifeel™ DRONE, an industry-first hardware and software solution to measure pressure and ensure efficient production.

SimplyCast.com, a global leader in multi-channel marketing Platform-as-a-Service solutions, today announced that the company has signed a deal with AutoSoft, a leading national dealer solutions provider, to become a preferred partner.

New technology companies based in Cape Breton and the Mulgrave area have a chance to compete in a new competition offering mentoring and funding to help them develop their products.

Spark Cape Breton, launched today, Jan. 9, is a competition that finds and supports high potential, early-stage knowledge-based companies, and encourages entrepreneurial activity in the region.

Fall 2013 Round

Acadia University

Researcher: Sherri A. McFarland
Project: Natural Products for Photodynamic Inactivation of Microorganisms

Capital District Health Authority

Researcher: Melanie Kelly and Mary Lynch
Project: Novel Formulation for Ocular Pain

Dalhousie University

Halifax-based topLog has developed a way to help detect, prevent and fix costly information technology system issues.

With an equity investment from Innovacorp, Nova Scotia's early-stage venture capital organization, topLog will finish developing and test its product in the next few months.