Easy Platter in TechStars, Expanding in GTA

Halifax-based personal chef service Easy Platter has joined the Seattle cohort of the prestigious TechStars accelerator, as it looks to cement its market position in Halifax, Vancouver and now Toronto.

Founded by CEO Mandhir Singh in 2020, Easy Platter matches customers with personal chefs to come to their homes and cook a supply of meals for them. The chefs’ cooking abilities are vetted by Easy

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SMU Opens Inspiration Hub With Prototyping, ICT Facilities

The Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University, which offers a broad suite of programming for aspiring startup founders, has opened its new Sobeys Inspiration Hub — a four-storey, 43,000-square-foot facility meant to act as a nexus between the academic and business communities, with facilities for prototyping and research.

The building was funded with the help of $5 million from the

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Announcing the Entrevestor Live Lineup

Today, we're announcing the full lineup for the 2023 edition of Entrevestor Live, which we believe is the greatest single showcase ever for innovation in the region. 

This conference highlighting the biggest and best innovation-driven companies in Atlantic Canada will take place on the afternoon of Nov. 14 at the new headquarters of Tribe Network in downtown Halifax. Space to attend in person is

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NBIF To Back Six Funds with $3.5M

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced it will back six Canadian investment groups with a total of $3.5 million this year to help attract more capital to the province’s startups.

At the InnovateNB reception Thursday night, NBIF Chief Executive Jeff White said his agency will provide capital to three groups in Atlantic Canada and three outside the region. The goal of the new

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KorrAI Launches OGMS

Halifax’s KorrAI, which uses artificial intelligence to help assess satellite images of infrastructure and mining sites, has launched a new, free software platform for assessing ground movement in population centres, which can indicate risks like flooding and infrastructure damage.

Dubbed the Open Ground Motion Service — “open” in the context of software meaning freely accessible — the platform

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Frenter Joins Plug and Play Accelerator

Halifax-based Frenter, which sells asset-management and geofencing software for heavy equipment, is joining the Alberta chapter of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup funding group Plug and Play’s accelerator program, batch 4.

Frenter is one of 18 startups joining the fourth cohort of the accelerator’s sustainability stream, which is backed by major industry players like Suncor and Shell Canada.

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Harvard’s Sam Magee, Journo Gordon Pitts to Speak in Fredericton

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship will host its Future of Innovation in Canada conference Oct. 17, exploring the latest trends and talking-points in the innovation economy.

Slated to be held at the Delta Hotel, Fredericton, the conference will run from 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. It will also feature two keynote speakers: Sam

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