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Canadian Oceantech on Display in London
The Canadian oceantech community – and the Atlantic Canadian contingent in particular – is on full display at the Oceanology International conference in London, seeking investment, customers and international partnerships.
Oceanology International
Seven Companies Join WIN-VC
The University of New Brunswick’s Pond-Deshpande Centre has announced the seven startups joining the Atlantic cohort of the Women and Nonbinary Impact Network for Venture Capital, or WIN-VC, which provides coaching and support services to help new
Collaskins Eyes Its Own Plant
Collaskins, one of a trio of interlinked St. John’s startups aiming to reduce waste from fish processing, is raising a round of pre-seed funding that it will put towards building its own plant.
Co-founders Janice Saunders and Ben Wiper spun
Myomar Aims For Regulatory Approval This Summer
Myomar Molecular hopes to use some of the $1.1 million funding round it just closed to win Health Canada approval for its muscle health test by the end of June, as the company prepares for another raise later this year, CEO Rafaela Andrade said in
P.E.I. Offers $500K for Cleantech
The Prince Edward Island government has created a new research and development fund to back cleantech projects.
Companies, post-secondary institutions and Indigenous communities will be able to apply for funding worth 80 percent of their project
EmployNXT Launches Human Resources AI
Halifax-based human resources startup EmployNXT will launch its product Monday with a focus on its beachhead markets of Atlantic Canada and Ontario, as CEO Shubhra Singh eyes a six-figure capital raise.
Singh originally created EmployNXT as a
Aurea Recognized by Coralus
Aurea Technologies, the Halifax maker of portable wind turbines, is one of 10 companies to be accepted into social impact investor Coralus’s Canadian list of 10 Selected Ventures to watch.
Coralus, an international industry group founded in Toronto
Volta Seeks Investment Day Startups
Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to the spring edition of its Investment Day event, which it hosts in collaboration with accelerator Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic.
The event will be held at Volta’s new offices in downtown
Acuicy Wins at Spring Investment Challenge
Acuicy, the Halifax-based maker of business intelligence software for emissions reduction, was victorious at the cleantech finals of the Atlantic Canada Cleantech Scale-up and Investment Challenge, a startup competition that aims to develop not just
CarbonCure Reaches 50 Million Cubic Yards of Concrete
About 50 million cubic yards of concrete have now been produced using the technology of Halifax clean concrete star CarbonCure, the company said Wednesday, with 800 systems having been licensed to clients across 35 countries.
The milestone comes as
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SudDrop Offers Laundry Delivery
A Halifax student athlete hopes to make his laundry subscription service a slam dunk with busy consumers.
Saint Mary’s University basketball player Jayrell Diggs is the founder of SudDrop, which offers to collect dirty laundry from users' homes and