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BIPOC entrepreneurs Asked to Pitch

  • Nov 15, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

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

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PragmaClin Readies Trials

  • Nov 15, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

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.

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Appili, DoD Expand Vaccine Deal

  • Nov 14, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Emergence Lands $3.2M in Funding

  • Nov 13, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

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

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The White Cross, By H.P. MacKeen

  • Nov 10, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

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

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MESH/Diversity Launches DEI Builder

  • Nov 09, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Atlantic Tech Summit Set for Next Week

  • Nov 09, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

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

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Shoelace’s Seed Round Has $3M First Close

  • Nov 08, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Innovacorp Invested $2.1M in 2021-22

  • Nov 07, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Sustane Wins Mobius Award

  • Nov 07, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Adaptiiv Closed A Round in 2021-22

  • Nov 06, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Adaptiiv Medical Technologies has revealed it closed a Series A funding round worth “less than $10 million” in the past year and a half, and is planning on a Series B raise next year.

Adaptiiv CEO Alex Dunphy revealed the funding

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Oceantech: Atlantic Canada Shines in Startup Genome Report

  • Nov 04, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Startup Genome, the Silicon Valley group that ranks innovation ecosystems, has released its first ever blue economy report. And Canada, particularly the Atlantic provinces, made a strong showing.

The Global Startup Ecosystem Report, Blue Economy

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