Lab2Market Launch Health Pitch Day Sept. 12

Dalhousie University’s startup hub, Dal Innovates will hold a virtual pitch day on Sept. 12 for its health cohort of Lab2Market Launch, part of a national research commercialization program for post-secondary institutions.

The students, researchers and recent graduates will have just completed a 12-week, milestone-based boot camp offering up to $15,000 of non-dilutive funding, as well as

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NovaResp Adds CPAP Veteran to Board

Halifax medical technology startup NovaResp, which is developing an algorithm to help manage sleep apnea, has added a new member to its board of directors: Raj Sodhi, who has extensive experience selling technology to treat the condition.

Sodhi co-founded Umbian, which sold software for tracking patients’ sleep habits and was acquired by San Diego-based ResMed in 2012. He stayed on at ResMed for

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Future of Innovation Conference to be Held in Fredericton

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship will host this year’s Future of Innovation conference Oct. 17 and 18, and the first speaker to be announced is prominent business journalist Gordon Pitts.

The conference will feature a cross-section of speakers from the world of startups and innovation and will be held at the Delta Hotels

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East Coast Startups Raised Just $16M in Q2: CVCA

Correction: An earlier version of this article mistakenly said the CVCA's second-quarter data overlooked the CarbonCure deal. We have corrected the article to state that the CarbonCure round closed in the third quarter. 

 

While venture capital nationally has had a gangbusters second quarter, startups in Atlantic Canada suffered one of their worst fundraising periods ever, according to data

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Invest Nova Scotia Seeks Export Incubator Applicants

Economic development agency Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to the 2023-2024 edition of its Launch Export Atlantic Incubator for young companies looking to develop sales outside of Nova Scotia or Canada.

The virtual incubator will help participants develop export plans for their businesses via educational sessions on topics like logistics, export budgeting and pricing strategies, as

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Genesis Renames Microfund after Nasdaq Donation

Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub Genesis is renaming the “microfund” it uses to back early-stage startups in honour of a US$1 million donation it received as part of Nasdaq’s purchase of cybersecurity unicorn Verafin.

Now called the Nasdaq Genesis Microfund and freshly replenished with money from the donation, the fund offers startups in Genesis’s flagship Enterprise incubator program an

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Entrepreneur of the Year: the Atlantic Finalists

Global consultancy EY has named 18 finalists in the 2023 Atlantic division of the Entrepreneur of the Year competition, now in its 29th year.

With competitors grouped into five regions nationally, the Atlantic Canadian winners will go on to compete against entrepreneurs from the Pacific coast, the Prairies, Ontario and Quebec. The regional winners will be announced in October and the national

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Shoelace Becomes C100 Fellow

Halifax-based edtech startup Shoelace is one of 22 companies and the only Atlantic Canadian business accepted into this year’s cohort of startup support non-profit C100’s prestigious fellowship program.

C100 specializes in leveraging the Canadian technology sector diaspora to help nurture the country’s startups. The Fellows program will kick off in September with 48Hrs, which is C100’s name for

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ONSIDE, Mashup Lab Seek Virtual Accelerator Applicants

Nova Scotia-based inclusive innovation group ONSIDE is looking for applicants to its virtual Start Now Incubator for female founders or other women, which it runs in partnership with the Bridgewater-based virtual startup house Mashup Lab.

The program is funded by the federal government’s Women Entrepreneurship Strategy Fund and has a particular focus on backing “rural, indigenous, diverse and

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