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Deloitte Recognizes Symbodi, Milk Moovement
Fredericton’s Symbodi and Halifax’s Milk Moovement were named to Deloitte Canada’s 2022 Companies To Watch list, after reporting revenue growth of 3,084 percent and 246 percent respectively over the past three years.
The global services company
Jevon MacDonald’s New Startup
Jevon MacDonald, one of the pre-eminent tech entrepreneurs in the region, has launched a new venture after teaming up with two co-founders in the San Francisco area.
MacDonald, the former CEO of Manifold and GoInstant, earlier this year co-founded
BIPOC entrepreneurs Asked to Pitch
The Black Startup Project is inviting BIPOC entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada to submit a two-minute video pitch on which they will receive personalized feedback from Black mentors, entrepreneurs, facilitators, and industry allies.
The top five
PragmaClin Readies Trials
St. John’s-based PragmaClin Research is preparing to test its system for monitoring Parkinson’s Disease patients in both Newfoundland and Labrador and Britain on the back of raising more than $1 million of non-dilutive funding since its founding.
Appili, DoD Expand Vaccine Deal
Armando Balboni, the CEO of Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics is leaving his role to become the company’s chairman and rejoin the United States military as Director of the Life Sciences Research Center at the United States Air Force
Emergence Lands $3.2M in Funding
The PEI BioAlliance has received $3.18 million in funding from the governments of Canada and Prince Edward Island to help fund the next iteration of its Emergence Bioscience Business Incubator.
The federal government’s Atlantic Canada Opportunities
The White Cross, By H.P. MacKeen
My grandfather, artillery officer H.P. MacKeen, shown on the left, wrote this poem in Ypres in September 1917, two months before the Battle of Passchendaele.
The White Cross
It isn’t a medal or order,
It carries no ribbon or braid
But a token
MESH/Diversity Launches DEI Builder
MESH/Diversity, the New Brunswick company whose software helps organizations improve diversity and inclusion, has launched a new program to help human resource executives and others improve their skills.
The company announced recently that it is
Atlantic Tech Summit Set for Next Week
The fourth annual Atlantic Technology Summit takes place next week in Halifax with highlights including a fireside chat between Dragons’ Den investor Michele Romanow and CBC host Nora Young.
Taking place next Wednesday, Nov.16, online and at the
Shoelace’s Seed Round Has $3M First Close
Halifax edtech company Shoelace Learning, which specializes in the gamification of learning, has announced the $3 million first close of its seed round, which it hopes will soon reach $4.5 million.
The company plans to use the money to add three
Innovacorp Invested $2.1M in 2021-22
Innovacorp has revealed it invested a total of $2.1 million in nine companies in what was likely its final complete fiscal year, and admits the totals were lower than expected.
The Nova Scotia government’s venture capital agency recently released
Sustane Wins Mobius Award
Halifax-based Sustane Technologies has won the Innovator of the Year category at the 2022 Mobius Awards for Environmental Excellence, presented last week by Divert Nova Scotia.
The company has developed technology that transforms curbside garbage