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MedReddie Enters Maine Healthcare Accelerator

  • May 04, 2025
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ResolveHD Accepted into National Program

  • May 04, 2025
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Greenii Wins Divert NS Grant

  • May 04, 2025

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MedReddie Enters Maine Healthcare Accelerator

  • May 04, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Saint John-based healthcare procurement company MedReddie is celebrating getting into the Roux Institute of Healthcare Founder Residency based in Maine.

The program, designed in partnership with Northern Light Health, MaineHealth, and Maine Venture

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ResolveHD Accepted into National Program

  • May 04, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based ResolveHD is one of eight Canadian companies accepted into the 2025 Vendor Innovation Program, or VIP, offered by the national organization Canada Health Infoway.

Led by CEO Chris Crowell and Chief Scientific Officer Louis Beaubien,

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Greenii Wins Divert NS Grant

  • May 04, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based social enterprise Greenii Inc. has been named a recipient of the ISANS Divert NS Grant, securing $1,500 to support its next phase of sustainable manufacturing growth.

A participant in Propel’s Fall 2024 Traction and Growth cohort,

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NACO Speakers Call for Reform

  • May 02, 2025
  • Carol Moreira and Peter Moreira

Speakers at the NACO 2025 Summit in Ottawa this week were virtually unanimous in their calls for the new government to revolutionize the country’s innovation economy.

The two-day conference hosted by NACO Canada, the National Angel Capital

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NovAI Labs to tour Nova Scotia

  • May 01, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

A new roadshow called NovAI Labs: Everyday AI for Everyday Business is being launched to help Nova Scotian small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) understand and adopt artificial intelligence.

It features a practical AI workshop designed to

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Calls for More Angel Investing

  • Apr 30, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

A recurring theme at the National Angel Capital Organization’s 2025 NACO Summit in Ottawa this week has been the need for funding at all levels of the startup lifecycle, but especially in the early stages.

Given that the get-together for angel

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Sums Capital Sold to NYC Company

  • Apr 30, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

New York-based Charli AI has acquired Sums Capital, a Halifax-based company whose platform delivers intelligence for investors, to form Charli Capital, a new company offering insights on companies in public and private markets.

Charli said in April

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NACO Calls for New Investment Environment

  • Apr 29, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

The National Angel Capital Organization kicked off its 2025 NACO Summit on Tuesday with a call for Canada to improve its innovation economy by revolutionizing the way entrepreneurs are funded.

NACO Chief Executive Claudio Rojas opened the two-day

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Altheda Working on Anti-Aging Products

  • Apr 29, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Altheda Wellness Innovation is hoping to launch a flagship product this year that can help delay mental decline in older people.

Founded by a team with an eight-figure exit on its résumé, Altheda is developing a range of products that

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Infusd Closes US$2M Funding Round

  • Apr 28, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax supplement startup Infusd Nutrition has closed an oversubscribed funding round of more than US$2 million (C$2.8 million), with which it hopes to increase sales and work on product development.

The funding round was led by NextGen Nutrition

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Project Zero To Tackle Chronic Homelessness in N.B.

  • Apr 25, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Project Zero, a new initiative working to solve homelessness in Fredericton, has been launched by the charity 12 Neighbours, the creation of former Radian6 co-founder Marcel LeBrun.

Marcel LeBrun was co-founder and CEO of social media monitoring

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Planetary Wins $1 million XFACTOR Award

  • Apr 24, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Planetary Technologies has won an XFACTOR award worth $1 million in the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition. 

XPRIZES are global, multi-year innovation competitions with prizes in the eight or nine figures. The Carbon Removal

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