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Boundless Discovery Closes US$2M Seed Round

  • Sep 09, 2026
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Halifax Founder Launches Social Golf App

  • Sep 08, 2026
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Cape Breton Capital Launches Second Fund

  • Sep 07, 2026

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Boundless Discovery Closes US$2M Seed Round

  • Sep 09, 2026
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Boundless Discovery has raised a US$2 million (C$2.8 million) seed round to develop an artificial intelligence-powered platform that maps and analyzes critical markets.

The company, founded in late 2024, issued a recent press release

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Halifax Founder Launches Social Golf App

  • Sep 08, 2026
  • Carol Moreira

David Sears, a Halifax-based geologist, has created PartnR, an app that helps golfers connect with playing partners, organize rounds, track scores, explore Canadian courses, and build a digital golf passport.

Surprisingly, perhaps, Sears, who

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Cape Breton Capital Launches Second Fund

  • Sep 07, 2026
  • Peter Moreira

Cape Breton Capital Group has launched a new $1.2 million angel investment fund focused on early-stage companies with connections to Cape Breton.

The Cape Breton Future Fund, or CBFF, will invest in qualifying small businesses that are registered

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The Rounds Acquired by Native Touch

  • Aug 10, 2026
  • Peter Moreira

The Rounds, the Halifax-based company that developed a social network for medical professionals, has exited after being acquired by Native Touch, a Toronto digital advertising firm.

In an interview, CEO Tim Rice said that The Rounds – whose

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We’re on Holiday Until Labour Day

  • Aug 09, 2026
  • Peter Moreira

As we do every summer, we're taking a break in August -- only it's a bit longer than usual this year. 

We find there's little news to write about it in the period before Labour Day. And if something newsworthy does happen, there are few readers

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A Call for New Attitudes in NS

  • Aug 06, 2026
  • Peter Moreira

In his splendid book Nova Scotia’s Lost Century: Can We Change Course?, Ian Thompson zeroes in on an all-important but immeasurable factor in the province’s underperformance since Confederation: our loss of confidence.

Our historical

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CVCA Data Shows Feast or Famine on the East Coast

  • Aug 04, 2026
  • Peter Moreira

It was feast or famine in the Atlantic Canadian venture capital arena in the first half of 2026, with New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador accounting for 96 percent of the funds raised.

The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity

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Couturier Named CEO of Green Imaging

  • Jul 31, 2026
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based Green Imaging Technologies has appointed Norm Couturier as chief executive officer while Co-Founder Derrick Green has moved into the newly created role of chief technology officer.

The changes took effect July 15 and are intended

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Natural Products Canada Lands $50M from Feds

  • Jul 30, 2026
  • Peter Moreira

The federal government has announced $50 million in funding for Natural Products Canada (NPC) to help expand Canada's agri-food innovation sector through a project valued at $94.8 million.

The funding, provided through the Strategic Response Fund,

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Tribe Supports 70+ Founders with Small Grants

  • Jul 29, 2026
  • Peter Moreira

Tribe Network says more than 70 Black, Indigenous, and racialized entrepreneurs across Atlantic Canada received support through its 2025–26 Start Small Grant Program.

The Halifax-based organization released the program's results on Tuesday, it

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Site 20/20 Lands $745K ACOA Loan

  • Jul 28, 2026
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has approved a $745,000 loan to Dartmouth-based Site 20/20 to help the traffic-control technology company expand its operations and increase production capacity.

The funding, announced Monday, will support the

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Elle, MD Closes $1.1M Pre-Seed Round

  • Jul 24, 2026
  • Peter Moreira

Nova Scotia medtech startup Elle, MD Technologies has raised C$1.1 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed financing round to support the first human clinical trial of its non-hormonal contraceptive device.

The New Minas-based company said the

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