Trade Accelerator Coming Jan. 16

Invest Nova Scotia and the Halifax Chamber of Commerce are looking for applicants to its Atlantic Trade Accelerator Program, or TAP, designed to help young businesses tap international markets.

The program includes workshops, peer-to-peer activities and mentorship from domain experts. According to the chamber of commerce, about 70 percent of its participants go on to successfully export their

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Invest Nova Scotia Names Accelerate Cohort

Invest Nova Scotia, the new provincial Crown corporation formed from the amalgamation of Innovacorp and Nova Scotia Business Inc., has announced 10 startups joining its Accelerate program.

Previously operated by Innovacorp, the Accelerate program offers participating companies 5 months of business and technical training. Participants in the previous cohort earlier this year were eligible for up

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Black Start-Up Project Pitch Competition Now Dec. 13

Tribe Network has extended the application deadline for its Black Start-Up Project's pitch competition and rescheduled the pitching event itself.

The original application deadline was Nov. 18. Now, applications close today, Dec. 2 at noon, and entrepreneurs will deliver their pitches Dec. 13 as part of Tribe’s AYA Day celebrating Black entrepreneurs.

The first 50 applicants to the competition

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Launching our 2022 Bluetech Survey

At Entrevestor, we’re launching our second annual survey for oceantech startups across Canada, and we’re looking for founders willing to take a few minutes to complete it.

We produce two major reports each year. Early in 2023 we will release our Canadian Oceantech Data Report, with our 10th Atlantic Canadian Startup Data Report to follow in the summer. Entrevestor has partnered with the Ocean

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Three Atlantic Companies in Entrepreneurship World Cup

On Thursday, three of the seven companies pitching in the Canadian finals of the Entrepreneurship World Cup will be from Atlantic Canada: St.John’s-based PragmaClin Research, and Halifax’s MOC Biotechnologies and Hollo Medical.

The competition is run by the Misk Foundation, a Saudi Arabian non-profit founded by that country’s head of state, Mohammed bin Salman. The World Cup has a $1 million

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Good Robot Opens Contract Manufacturing Plant

Good Robot Brewing, the popular Halifax seller of craft beer, is opening a new production facility aimed at sharing manufacturing resources among the region’s beverage makers and allowing them to achieve the scale necessary to target international markets.

Founded in 2015 by Joshua Counsil, Angus Campbell and Doug Kehoe, Good Robot has historically located its production operations at its Robie

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GoodLeaf Plans Montreal Facility

Guelph, Ont.- and Bible Hill, NS-based vertical farming startup GoodLeaf Farms has announced that it will open a production facility in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil with the help of a $7 million loan from the Government of Quebec.

Slated to open by the middle of 2023, the new indoor farm is also being funded by several smaller grants, including one from Développement économique de

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GreenSage Raising Angel Round, Preps for Launch

Halifax- and Ontario-based GreenSage Prebiotics has been accepted into Charlottetown’s Emergence virtual incubator for life sciences companies and is raising a $700,000 angel round as it prepares to commercialize its fish food supplement in early 2024.

Founded by life sciences startup veterans Brad and Sandra Saville, GreenSage is developing a prebiotic — a substance that acts as a source of

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Pitch & Pick Coming Dec. 13

Six teams will vie for a $2,000 first prize at Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub Genesis’s next Pitch & Pick competition, the culmination of its eight-week Evolution accelerator, on Dec. 13.

There will also be a $1,000 second prize and a $500 Community Choice Award. 

The Pitch & Pick events are held three times a year at the end of Evolution’s three annual cohorts. The last winner was

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