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Volta and CDL Offer Fall Investment Day

  • Nov 01, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL-Atlantic) and Volta are holding an investment day that will showcase high-potential, early-stage startups building innovative solutions in the region.

Founders will pitch their companies to a curated audience of active

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Bell Named MCI Executive Director

  • Oct 31, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Well-known entrepreneur Tracy Bell is joining UNB Saint John-based Wallace McCain Institute as Executive Director, taking up her role over the next few weeks.

Bell who is from Rothesay, NB, first joined the institute in 2019 as a member of its

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Dal Innovates Launches Collide for Student Entrepreneurs

  • Oct 30, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Collide, an initiative that provides entrepreneurship programming for students, is being rolled out across Atlantic Canada following a year-long pilot project. 

Collide was developed at Dalhousie University to mirror the national research

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Spellbook in Deal with Thomson Reuters

  • Oct 29, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Spellbook, the St. John’s legal software-maker that earlier this year raised US$20 million, has announced it has integrated content from Thomson Reuters Practical Law to allow clients to leverage the capabilities of both platforms.

Users now have

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Avalon Prepares To Enter U.S. Market

  • Oct 28, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

With its first NOVAC holographic display table in operation, Avalon Holographics of St. John’s is preparing to ramp up sales in the coming year and deploy working models to the U.S.

The company, which can legitimately claim to be a global leader in

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Precision Medicine Conference To Focus on Cancer

  • Oct 28, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

The inaugural Atlantic Precision Medicine Conference will be held in Halifax next week with an agenda focused on delivering the right cancer treatment to the right patient at the right time.

Precision medicine, aka personalized medicine, takes into

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Invest NS Recovers $551K of Stolen Money

  • Oct 27, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Invest Nova Scotia has recovered almost all the $573,000 stolen from it in a phishing scam this past spring, the economic development agency said Friday.

In July, the economic development agency said an imposter posing as a venture capital

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Tribe Seeks Applicants to BUILD and its Pitch Contest

  • Oct 24, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Tribe Network, the Halifax-based startup support organization for BIPOC founders, is seeking participants for several of its programs.

The 15-week BSP BUILD program is a virtual offering that provides expert coaching in key disciplines like

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NS Hospice Team Wins for Grief Library

  • Oct 23, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

A new idea that supports rural Nova Scotians has won the International Palliative Care Innovator of 2024 award in Montreal.

The Grief Library allows patients and their loved ones to borrow books on grief and grieving free of charge. Books are

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ACOA Funds 7 Dartmouth Innovators

  • Oct 23, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) is lending a total of more than $6 million to seven small and medium-sized businesses to help them scale up and modernize their operations.

The following companies are receiving loans through the

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Propel’s Traction and Growth Names 8 Companies

  • Oct 22, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Virtual Accelerator Propel has announced the eight companies that make up its Fall 2024 Traction and Growth cohort.

Traction and Growth is for later-stage founders who have proven recurring revenue and appear poised to become high-growth companies.

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L2M Validate Welcomes 19 Teams

  • Oct 22, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Dalhousie University and the University of New Brunswick have accepted 19 teams into their Fall 2024 Lab2Market Validate cohort, which helps researchers assess the commercial viability of their work.

One of several Lab2Market programs, the 16-week

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