Rally Integrates OpenAI

Rally, the St. John’s maker of process automation software for law firms, is incorporating technology from San Francisco artificial intelligence non-profit OpenAI into its software platform to help lawyers draft contracts.

Spellbook is Rally’s new tool for auto-generating contract clauses using OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model, which is capable of writing prose largely indistinguishable from that

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Entrevestor Live Set for Oct. 20

We’re delighted to announce that our second annual Entrevestor Live event will be held on the afternoon of Oct. 20, and it will be hybrid so you can attend live or online.

Showcasing some of the most successful startups in the region, we launched Entrevestor Live last year as a virtual event. This year, we are partnering with Volta, so anyone in Halifax on Oct. 20 can join us for the live event

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The Spark: Igniting Conversations Series Returns

The second annual session of The Spark: Igniting Conversations series will focus on growing entrepreneurship in the African Nova Scotian community, introducing new entrepreneurs to seasoned ones to share how to build successful businesses.

Organizers invite anyone who’s interested in supporting or working with Black businesses to attend and begin building relationships. For those looking to

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BioNova Unveils BIC Short List

Nova Scotia life sciences industry group BioNova has chosen eight semi-finalists for its annual BioInnovation Challenge, with $55,000 of funding and in-kind services up for grabs.

Now in its twelfth year, the pitching competition will be held during BioPort Atlantic — the annual conference for life sciences and biotech in Atlantic Canada — on Nov. 2 and 3. The finals are being held in-person

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Venn Garage Adds Startups

Three early-stage New Brunswick startups have entered the Venn Garage incubator program, after being selected from the open pitch competition in July.

As a resident Garage startup, the new companies will receive a hotdesk at the Junction, Venn’s new tech-focused innovation hub in Moncton. They will also be offered workshops and coaching sessions, resources and networks, as well as support with

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Couryah Launches Apps

Couryah, the Halifax-based food delivery service, has launched a trio of apps to replace its web platform and accommodate more users on the back of pandemic-era growth.

Couryah differs from other delivery industry players like Uber Eats and Instacart because it allows users to order from both restaurants and grocery stores on the same platform, as well as offering lower fees, the company said.

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Planet Hatch Newcomer Pitch Competition This Friday

Fredericton entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch will hold its first Newcomer and International Student pitch competition, which has a total prize purse worth $10,000 on Friday.

Scheduled for Aug. 26, the competition will include two streams: an idea stream for prospective entrepreneurs and a business plan stream for those with existing companies. Competitors in the idea stream will be judged based

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Maritime Launch Finalizes Land Lease

Maritime Launch Services has finalized the Crown land lease for its planned spaceport near Canso, Nova Scotia, paving the way for an inaugural rocket launch next year.

The lease is for 334.5 acres near the Chedabucto Bay and will last 20 years, with an option to renew for another 20 — although a statement from Maritime Launch, or MLS, did not clarify which party has the option.

“Acquiring the

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Modest Tree Inks Space Force Deal

Modest Tree, a Halifax-based maker of extended-reality software, has won a contract with the United States Space Force, the extra-planetary branch of the country’s armed forces.

The company earned the deal by participating in the Space Force’s Space Launch Delta 45 Pitch Day. The arm of the Space Force running the pitch day, Space Launch Delta 45, plans to use Modest Tree’s technology for

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