BioAccelerator Seeks Tenants

The Prince Edward Island BioAlliance is seeking innovation-driven companies to lease space in its new BioAccelerator facility, which is slated to be completed in 2025 and will offer biomanufacturing facilities and office space.

In a statement, the BioAlliance said potential tenants could include early-stage companies, as well as small- and medium-sized enterprises. It will also be home to a

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Emera IdeaHUB Holds Pitch Day

Dalhousie University held its inaugural Pitch Day for graduates of its Dal Innovates and Emera ideaHUB accelerators Thursday, with HerBiome Skincare and XO Technology winning for Launch and ideaBUILD, respectively.

In total, 19 startups competed for a $15,000 prize pool, with Phyco Technologies and Oxebow Enterprises each taking home a people's choice award. The pitch day complements the demo

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InnovateNB Awards Announce 30 Finalists

The organizers of the second annual InnovateNB Awards, which will be presented at a celebratory event in Fredericton Oct. 12, have announced their finalists.

The list includes contenders across nine different categories, ranging from Diversity and Inclusion Champion to Productivity Improvement by Adapting Technology. The awards will be part of a full day of activities, including a range of

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Remembering Dr. Mary Kilfoil (1956-2023)

We were shocked and saddened to learn this week that Dr. Mary Kilfoil, one of the pioneers of the Atlantic Canada startup community, had passed away peacefully at home last week.

A woman of great kindness and generosity, Kilfoil is best known in our circles as the leader of Starting Lean, the ground-breaking entrepreneurship program she founded with her husband Ed Leach at Dalhousie University

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Seven Startups Present at BioPort

This year’s BioPort life sciences summit in Halifax came complete not just with a selection of presentations from pre-seed and seed-stage startups, but also an announcement: provincial industry group and conference organizer BioNova is now Life Sciences Nova Scotia.

Chief Executive Sean Awalt, who has held the role for a year, announced the rebrand to a sold-out conference at the Halifax Marriot

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Featured Guests at Entrevestor Live

Some of the most successful Atlantic Canadian startup founders in the region's history will headline the 2023 edition of Entrevestor Live, our three-hour conference that showcases the biggest and best of the region’s high-growth companies.

This year's discussions will be hosted by noted academic and entrepreneur Dr. Dhirendra Shukla, and will feature iconic East Coast innovation companies like 

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Acuicy AI Trials Under Way, Pre-Seed in the Works

Acuicy, the Halifax-based maker of business intelligence software for emissions reduction, is demoing its technology with double-digit numbers of enterprise clients on the back of completing its minimum viable product last spring.

Chief executive Allison Murray founded the company with chief innovation officer Dawne Skinner last year to aggregate business intelligence data related to greenhouse

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BlueNode, Port of Halifax are Finalists for Global Sustainability Award

Nova Scotia supply chain analytics specialists BlueNode and the Port of Halifax are finalists for the International Association of Ports and Harbors’ Sustainability Awards, to be presented at the World Ports Conference in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 1.

Founded in 2018 by CEO Louis Beaubien and COO Grant Wells, BlueNode has developed a supply chain analytics SaaS product for shipping companies. The system

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Reazent Becomes Nutrien Inclusion Competition Finalist

Halifax-based Reazent, the maker of organic alternatives to conventional fertilizer products, has beat out hundreds of other competitors internationally to become one of four finalists in Saskatoon agtech giant Nutrien’s Radicle Inclusion Challenge.

Reazent will pitch at the Women in Agribusiness Summit in Nashville, Tennessee on Sept. 28 for a chance to win one of two US$750,000 prizes. Nutrien

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