ACOA Funds 9 Startups with $4M
The funding announcements include a $1.47 loan for Milk Moovement.
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency on Friday announced non-dilutive funding totalling $4 million for nine Halifax startups to help them scale.
The federal
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Athlete Aid Focuses on Young Athletes
With the help of AI, two student entrepreneurs plan to help coaches and parents of injured junior athletes assess whether it is safe to let a player back in the game.
Isaac Hierlihy and Morgan MacKinnon, both 19, and second-year university students
Charlotte Murray Joining Farmers’ Truck
After seven years coaching founders at virtual accelerator Propel, Charlotte Murray is joining Moncton social enterprise The Farmers’ Truck where she will work to improve food security across the continent.
The Farmers’ Truck provides fresh,
Eigen Raises $2.6M
Fredericton-based Eigen Innovations, which sells an artificial intelligence system to perform quality control checks on production lines via thermal cameras, has raised a $2.6 million funding round.
The company said in a statement it has seen
Genesis Names Ed Martin President and CEO
St. John’s innovation hub Genesis has appointed Ed Martin, formerly Director of the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, its new President and Chief Executive Officer.
Before working as director at MCE, Martin co-founded and led Clockwork Fox
DependBuild in TechStars
Dependbuild, the St. John's maker of cloud software that helps municipalities and infrastructure developers assess risks to construction projects, has been accepted into TechStars accelerator in Ohio State University in Columbus.
The accelerator