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PEI Life Sciences Post Banner Year

  • Dec 16, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Prince Edward Island’s bioeconomy has already surpassed its 2025 growth targets, posting a gangbusters $575 million in revenue in 2021, exceeding 2020’s figure by about $200 million.

Survey data from industry group the PEI BioAlliance of more than

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Six Companies Win at Tribe Pitch Competition

  • Dec 15, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based Tribe Network’s Black Startup Project hosted its first pitch competition Tuesday as part of its AYA Day event celebrating Black entrepreneurs, with startups from all four Atlantic Provinces participating.

Fifteen shortlisted companies

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Volta Seeks Democamp Applicants

  • Dec 14, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to its annual Democamp, which gives startups the chance to showcase their technology for investors and other innovation community members.

Slated to be held at Volta’s Barrington Street offices

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BC Group Makes Recycled Ocean Plastic Commercially Available

  • Dec 14, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

British Columbia-based non-profit Ocean Legacy has begun producing what it calls the first commercially available plastic pellet in North America made from 100 per cent recycled ocean plastics. The foundation has also announced a partnership with

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Halifax Business Awards Feature Several Innovators

  • Dec 13, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The Halifax Business Awards this year will shine a spotlight on several innovation-driven companies, showing that companies developing their own intellectual property are gaining prominence in the city's business community. 

The Halifax Chamber of

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Tranquility Helps Anchor Green Shield’s Atlantic Push

  • Dec 12, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

A year and a half after its sale to Green Shield Canada, Halifax-based virtual therapy specialist Tranquility Online is helping to anchor an expansion push into Atlantic Canada by the health insurance giant.

Joel Muise, who co-founded Tranquility

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Profitual Raises $1.2M

  • Dec 11, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

A pair of former New Brunswick Innovation Foundation investors, Raymond Fitzpatrick and Daniel Hoyles, have left the organization to found financial intelligence startup Profitual and close a nearly $1.2 million funding round.

Fitzpatrick was the

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Genesis Announces Pitch & Pick Companies

  • Dec 11, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s startup hub Genesis has announced the six teams that will vie for a $2,000 prize at this week’s Pitch & Pick competition.

There will also be a $1,000 second prize and a $500 Community Choice Award. 

The Pitch & Pick events are held

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Bluetech: Invest NS Announces OceanTech Pilot Program

  • Dec 09, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Invest Nova Scotia has announced the first six startups participating in its OceanTech Pilot Program, which gives early-stage bluetech companies the chance to test their pre-commercialization products.

The participating companies will split $50,000

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Energia Demo Day Dec. 13

  • Dec 09, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The University of New Brunswick’s Energia Ventures startup accelerator will hold its second demo day of 2022 on Dec. 13, showcasing a roster of five companies from three countries.

Energia is hosted by the University of New Brunswick’s Technology,

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Audyse Readies for Funding Round

  • Dec 07, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

St. John's-based Audyse Technology is working on finalizing a noise-cancelling algorithm to protect motorcyclists’ hearing as it prepares to raise a funding round early next year.

Audyse is developing a noice-cancelling headset that will protect

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NBIF Invested $5M in VC in 2021-22

  • Dec 07, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation invested $4.98 million in equity funding for the province's startups in its 2021-2022 fiscal year, in what it said was a record fundraising year for its portfolio companies.

NBIF’s venture capital investments

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