LeBrun, Newton, join Potential Motors

Not only has Potential Motors pivoted to become a software company, but the Fredericton startup has brought two of New Brunswick’s most successful tech entrepreneurs on to its team.

Chris Newton and Marcel LeBrun have joined Potential Motors as Chief Scientist and Chairperson respectively. They are best known as the Co-Founders of Radian6, the social-media-monitoring company that sold out to

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Clean Energy Alliance Launched

A new alliance of representatives for clean energy development was announced on Monday.

The Atlantic Clean Energy Alliance will work to foster energy innovation in the New Brunswick economy.

Representatives include the University of New Brunswick, Moltex Energy, ARC Nuclear Canada, NB Power, Atlantica Centre for Energy, the Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development, Opportunities

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Growing Fintech in Atlantic Canada

Having worked for decades in the technology industry in Israel, Alicia Ismach sees huge opportunities for Atlantic Canada’s tech sector in general and financial technology, or fintech, in particular.

The native of Argentina was hired as Entrepreneur-in-Residence by New Brunswick innovation hub Venn Innovation in October, 2018. And last year, she began to gather fintech players together to form a

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AquaHacking Launches in Region

The AquaHacking Challenge, a national competition that encourages post-secondary students to find solutions to problems plaguing freshwater supplies, has launched in Atlantic Canada.

The East Coast program was launched Wednesday at an event at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. The regional program is part of a national competition that awards a total of $50,000 to teams that come up with the

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PolyUnity Links with Eastern Health

St. John’s-based PolyUnity has joined Eastern Health Authority’s Living Labs initiative, which will support the young company in its mission to help train doctors around the world with the aid of 3D printing.  

Founded by three med students at Memorial University of Newfoundland, PolyUnity has set out to produce low-cost 3D-printed medical simulation models, allowing medical professionals to

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IMV Unveils ‘Pivotal Milestone’

Dartmouth biotech company IMV on Tuesday revealed “breakthrough” results in the Phase 2 clinical trials of its flagship drug DPX-Survivac, which sparked a sell-off of its shares that was as puzzling as it was dramatic.

IMV, which specializes in using a person’s immune system to battle such diseases as cancer, announced an update on DPX-Survivac, saying the study of 22 patients with advanced

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Milk Moovement in Thrive Program

Milk Moovement of St. John’s has been accepted into the Thrive accelerator in Silicon Valley, and will receive a US$100,000 (C$133,000) investment on joining the program.

SVG Ventures-Thrive, the California group that says it operates the “agri-food innovation ecosystem”, on Monday announced the 13 companies that will attend its sixth cohort, which begins this week and lasts four months.

Milk

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Supercluster’s New Startup Program

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Friday unveiled a $6.8 million program that will support the creation of more and better oceantech startups in Atlantic Canada.

The Ocean Supercluster – a private-public partnership formed with the support of the federal government’s supercluster program – held a media reception in St. Johns on Friday announcing its first Ocean Startup Project. It will help to

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