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Kraken Robotics’ Karl Kenny Mourned

  • Feb 19, 2025
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Kraken Robotics’ Karl Kenny Mourned

Kraken announces the death of founder and former CEO Karl Kenny.

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics has announced the loss of its founder and former CEO Karl Kenny on February 11, at the age of 64.

Kenny founded Kraken in 2012 and was

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Peak Startup Discussion Expands

  • Feb 18, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Entrevestor’s recent article on whether Atlantic Canada has reached a maximum number of startups has attracted a vigorous response, with the latest coming from Dean MacIsaac, the Customer Success Manager at St. John's-based Genesis.

In the February

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TLT East Aims To Close Fund Feb. 28

  • Feb 18, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

A new Atlantic Canadian investment group is hoping to close its first fund this month, and make its first investment at about the same time.

TLT East Ventures is the brainchild of Michael Brown, a New Brunswick-born investment banker whose career

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SudDrop Expanding to Ontario

  • Feb 15, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax basketball player Jayrell Diggs is partnering with courier companies and laundromats to grow his SudDrop laundry service into new provinces.

The student athlete is expanding his laundry subscription service to Ontario this summer, with the

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We Need More Surveys for Better Data

  • Feb 13, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Our column Wednesday about the decline in Atlantic Canadian startups sparked an interesting discussion on LinkedIn, with a related chat about whether AI and other factors are creating a wave of “solopreneurs”.

We had some requests to flesh out the

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Ocean Startup Project Launches L2M Cohort

  • Feb 12, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

The fifth cohort of Ocean Startup Project’s Lab2Market Oceans/Validate program has begun work with 21 new teams that aim to tackle challenges in the blue economy.

The eight-week program, hosted by Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador,

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