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CloudKettle Sold to Bell
Bell Canada’s purchase of Halifax IT service company CloudKettle, announced Tuesday, is far from the first such overture Chief Executive Greg Poirier has received. What made this deal uniquely appealing, he said in an interview, was Bell’s track
InteGolf Readies App
A Cape Breton startup has launched an online platform that helps golf course operators market their unsold tee-times at discounted prices, and is planning to release an app for players later this year.
Sydney-based InteGolf was founded by longtime
EmployNXT, StarLuv Join Founder Lab
Two Atlantic Canadian companies, EmployNXT and StarLuv, are among the 20 joining the 2024 cohort of Calgary-based Movement51’s Founder Lab training program for female founders preparing to raise capital.
Movement51, the non-profit arm of The51
SMU Seeks Access-Ability Applications
Saint Mary’s University is looking for applicants to its Access-Ability program for entrepreneurs with disabilities.
The speaker series, which includes 18 sessions per year, will pay entrepreneurs $50 for their “time, participation and focus,” and
WEL Atlantic Launches Second Fund
The Women’s Equity Lab Atlantic Investment Group, or WEL Atlantic, an angel capital organization launched early last year, has closed its first fund and opened a second, for which it has raised $250,000 from 50 investors.
Fund 1, which had 38
Picketa Launches in 13 States
Fredericton-based Picketa Systems, maker of the LENS hardware and software suite for analyzing plant tissues, has launched its product in 13 American states, mostly in the country’s bread basket region.
Initially designed for use on potato crops,
Triple Hair Raises $4M
A pharmaceutical startup aiming to treat Androgenetic Alopecia, a type of genetic hair loss, has raised a $4 million funding round that included the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.
Founded in 2013 by Dr. Houfar Sekhavat and pharmacist Peter
Invest NS Seeks Accelerate Applicants
Invest Nova Scotia is seeking applicants for this year's second cohort of its Accelerate startup program.
Accelerate offers companies four months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding, as well as weekly one-on-one coaching
Innerlogic raises $1.3M
Techstars alum innerlogic, which is developing a software and AI suite to automate employee feedback for enterprise clients, has closed a $1.3 million funding round to support product and business development.
Founders Bryce Tully and Mike Bawol
Kempaiah Joins Entrevestor Live
We’re pleased to report that a new panelist has joined the Entrevestor Live lineup: Zen Electric CEO Ravindra Kempaiah.
On Sept. 17 at Volta, Kempaiah — whose company is developing battery systems for the very small two- and three-wheeled vehicles
Four Healthtech Startups Leveraging Software
Information technology businesses are not just the largest group of startups in Atlantic Canada. They dwarf every other sector, accounting for almost two-thirds of all East Coast startups at the end of 2023. If there is a challenger for the most
Stethophone Adds AI
St. John's-based Sparrow Bioacoustics has launched Version 3 of its stethoscope app, now integrating AI analysis, with the company releasing it first in Ukraine.
The move builds on a pilot program that has involved Ukrainian cardiology clinics