InnovateNB Names Top Innovators

Last night, the third InnovateNB celebration honoured innovators from New Brunswick’s economy and heard a keynote address by new premier Susan Holt.

The awards ceremoney in Moncton was preceded by an afternoon of wide-ranging discussions with an emphasis on AI. 

"This year, we are especially proud to highlight our trailblazers in AI, whose achievements exemplify resilience, creativity, and the

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$50 million BioAccelerator Coming to PEI

Work has begun on a new BioAccelerator in Charlottetown. Financed by the federal and provincial governments, the facility is designed to support Canada's expanding bioscience industry.

Spearheaded by the PEI BioAlliance, a private sector-led non-profit, the location will offer 60,000 square feet of biomanufacturing space for researchers, entrepreneurs, and bioscience-based companies, the group

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Tech Forward Award Winners Named

Digital Nova Scotia last week honoured members of the province’s tech community with its Tech Forward Awards, recognizing diverse contributors and contributions to the province's ecosystem.

The winners are:

Diversity and Inclusion Award: MOC BioTechnologies

“MOC BioTechnologies has made significant strides in fostering diversity and inclusion in Nova Scotia’s tech sector. Their inclusive

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Heart App Wins Health Canada Approval

St. John’s-based Sparrow BioAcoustics is celebrating Health Canada’s approval of Stethophone, an AI-powered app that allows users to capture and analyze heart sounds using a smartphone.

Designed for both healthcare professionals and personal use, Stethophone helps detect structural and rhythmic heart anomalies. The company is aiming to build the world’s biggest databank of cardiological

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Bell’s Entrepreneurial Struggles Inform New Role

With her own business on ice after seven years of operations, entrepreneur Tracy Bell is able to bring a lot of empathy to her new role as executive director of the Wallace McCain Institute, which aims to help business owners and entrepreneurial leaders throughout Atlantic Canada grow bigger, faster. 

Bell, a co-founder of Saint John-based Millennia TEA, a startup that imported frozen tea from

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Volta and CDL Offer Fall Investment Day

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL-Atlantic) and Volta are holding an investment day that will showcase high-potential, early-stage startups building innovative solutions in the region.

Founders will pitch their companies to a curated audience of active investors, ecosystem leaders and the tech community, organizers said in a press release.

There will be no prizes or judging, just straight pitches

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Bell Named MCI Executive Director

Well-known entrepreneur Tracy Bell is joining UNB Saint John-based Wallace McCain Institute as Executive Director, taking up her role over the next few weeks.

Bell who is from Rothesay, NB, first joined the institute in 2019 as a member of its Entrepreneurial Leaders Program, the institute said in a press release.

Bell co-founded a startup called Millennia TEA in 2017 and led that company until

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Spellbook in Deal with Thomson Reuters

Spellbook, the St. John’s legal software-maker that earlier this year raised US$20 million, has announced it has integrated content from Thomson Reuters Practical Law to allow clients to leverage the capabilities of both platforms.

Users now have access to thousands of Practical Law’s attorney-editor created standard documents and clauses directly within Spellbook’s AI-powered contract drafting

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