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GoodLeaf Closes $52M Equity Round

  • Nov 19, 2025
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Food Web To Launch Platform Dec. 8

  • Nov 18, 2025
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NS Researcher Wins Mitacs Award for Fabric Tick Repellent

  • Nov 17, 2025

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GoodLeaf Closes $52M Equity Round

  • Nov 19, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Guelf, Ont.-based GoodLeaf Farms, which began life as Halifax-based TruLeaf, has raised $52 million in equity financing to expand its vertical farming operations in Western and Central Canada and establish a new R&D centre in Ontario.

The company,

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Food Web To Launch Platform Dec. 8

  • Nov 18, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Food Web, a Halifax startup that connects commercial kitchens with food entrepreneurs, will officially launch its new Food Web Kitchens platform on Dec. 8.

The digital platform allows kitchen owners to rent out unused hours in their licensed

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NS Researcher Wins Mitacs Award for Fabric Tick Repellent

  • Nov 17, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Wolfville, N.S.-based Acadia University researchers have created an all-natural and long-lasting fabric spray tick repellent. The work was conducted under the supervision of Nicoletta Faraone, recently appointed to head up the new Canadian Tick

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InnovateNB Nominees Announced

  • Nov 16, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

The organizers of the InnovateNB Celebration and Awards 2025 have announced the nominees for the innovation awards in nine categories.

The awards program recognizes individuals and organizations contributing to innovation across New Brunswick.

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Top 7 Over 70 Seeks Nominations

  • Nov 16, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Calgary-based non-profit Top 7 Over 70 will hold its awards ceremony in Halifax in May next year. The group runs an awards program that celebrates the recent successes of adults over 70 and it is the first time the awards will be held in Atlantic

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7 Fathoms Makes a Splash on Dragons’ Den

  • Nov 13, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Grates Cove, NL-based skincare company 7 Fathoms recently appeared on CBC’s Dragons’ Den, where they successfully pitched their business to one of the show’s investors.

The company is making skin and hair products incorporating the bioactives found

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CVCA Says Region Booked $35M in VC in Q3

  • Nov 12, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canadian startups raised about $35 million in venture capital in the third quarter of 2025, says Canada’s main VC body, which is small change compared to the total coming for the fourth quarter.

The Canadian Venture Capital and Private

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Templar Targets Electric Boat Market

  • Nov 12, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

A new company on Nova Scotia’s South Shore is setting out to electrify transportation on the water.

Based in Pleasantville, Templar Marine will produce a range of fully electric boats — from commercial craft and tour boats to water taxis — all

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Martin ‘Tweaks” Genesis Programs in Year 1

  • Nov 11, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Sitting at the centre of the region’s hottest startup market, Genesis has undergone changes in the last year that the guy in charge says are really a few “tweaks”.

Just after his first anniversary as Genesis CEO, Ed Martin spoke with Entrevestor in

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Startup Atlantic Exhibits at Elevate and SaaS North

  • Nov 11, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Startup Atlantic, a network that unites the entrepreneurial ecosystem across the four Atlantic Provinces, has been travelling with a two-stop national showcase of Atlantic Canada’s innovation economy.

The Startup Atlantic Fall Tech Roadshow

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CoLab Closes US$72M Series C Round

  • Nov 10, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based CoLab Software on Monday announced the closing of a US$72 million (C$100.9 million) Series C funding round, the largest VC financing in the region in the past two years.

Founded by CEO Adam Keating and CTO Jeremy Andrew in 2017,

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Bennett To Headline InnovateNB Gala

  • Nov 10, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Sandpiper Ventures Founding and Managing Partner Cathy Bennett will deliver the keynote address at this year’s InnovateNB Awards, scheduled for Nov. 27 at the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre.

Bennett brings more than three decades of

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