Planetary Hydrogen Joins C2V

Planetary Hydrogen, a cleantech company that moved from Ottawa to Nova Scotia last year, has been accepted into the New York-based Carbon to Value Initiative, which encourages industrial uses of carbon dioxide.

The company launched in Ottawa a few years ago and last year moved most of its operations to the Halifax area because it was collaborating on research with Dalhousie University.

Now it

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ONSIDE Launches Innovation Tour

Entrevestor is delighted to be participating in the Nova Scotia Innovation Tour, a bi-weekly lunch-and-learn series presented by ONSIDE, which supports innovation in the province.

I’ll be kicking off the virtual series on Wednesday with the first public presentation of our 2020 data, and ONSIDE will also host five other seminars throughout the summer. My presentation this week will focus almost

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Meta Enters Geothermal Market

Dartmouth-based Metamaterial Inc., which makes advanced materials, is entering the geothermal electricity market in a partnership with Houston-based Sage Geosystems.

The two companies this week announced that they are collaborating on a next-generation geothermal technology called Pluton that is designed to drastically lower the price of geothermal and allow geothermal facilities in more

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OzoneBio Creating Nylon from Zombies

OzoneBio is developing a more environmentally friendly form of nylon 66 from “zombie cells” in Sydney, where the company has become the latest to join the Verschuren Centre, the rapidly evolving hub for an emerging biotechnology sector.

The two Russian Co-Founders, Khorcheska Batyrova and Anna Khusnutdinova, have moved their venture from Toronto and will work with Cape Breton’s pulp and paper

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Volta Names 15 Cohort Finalists

Fifteen early-stage startups will pitch for as much as $25,000 each in equity funding at the next Volta Cohort Pitch Event on May 19.

Volta, the Halifax innovation hub, initiated the funding program three-and-a-half years ago, and so far 34 startups have been selected. At each pitch event, as many as five companies are chosen for up to $25,000 in funding. They also receive mentorship and office

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Unbound Aims to Cut Drug Waste

St. John’s-based Unbound Chemicals is tackling a big problem – the waste produced by the pharmaceutical industry.

The company is developing a process to unlock the valuable ingredients from pharmaceutical waste. It’s an issue that has been highlighted by the pandemic, which has revealed faultlines in global supply chains, according to Blaine Edwards, company Founder and CEO.

Unbound began in

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