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GoAhead Invests in Metricsflow

  • Jun 24, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based Metricsflow, which says it has created a privacy-friendly online tracking service, has inked a deal with GoAhead Ventures, a US$112 million Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

The GoAhead investment is part of Metricsflow’s latest

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BoomersPlus’s New Mentor Project

  • Jun 23, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

BoomersPlus, a Halifax company that matches seasoned professionals with part-time jobs where their experience is needed, is testing a new initiative to help startups find industry mentors.

The Virtual Startup Mentor Pilot program will see a roster

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Verschuren, Bioenterprise Sign MOU

  • Jun 23, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Sydney’s Verschuren Centre and Bioenterprise, Canada’s food and agri-tech organization, have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together in support of sustainable innovation in agriculture and the bioeconomy.

 In a statement,

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Turning Waste Plastic into Bricks

  • Jun 22, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Even after decades of attempts by governments and environmental groups to make recycling ubiquitous, the industry faces at least one constant challenge: finding uses for discarded material. But the founder of New Brunswick-based PLAEX Building

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Halifax Index Launches Thursday

  • Jun 22, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Entrevestor will be participating in the release of the Halifax Index on Thursday at 9 am, bringing our insights on startup and innovation to the Halifax Partnership’s annual assessment of the city’s economy.

The Halifax Index tracks the city’s

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CoteX Pioneers Fertilizer Manufacturing Process

  • Jun 21, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

In the latest win for Sydney’s Verschuren Centre biotech hub, agtech startup CoteX Technologies has relocated from India to use the facility.

Founded in 2018 by chemical engineer Santosh Yadav, CoteX uses a process called thermoforming to apply

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Appili COVID Trial Expands to Mexico, Brazil

  • Jun 21, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Appili Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing drugs for infectious diseases, has added clinical research sites in Mexico and Brazil to its Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating favipiravir as a potential oral therapy for

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Using the Seas to Capture CO2

  • Jun 20, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

When discussing what big, ocean-based carbon capture or storage could look like in 10 years, Matthew Eisaman likes to point out that atmospheric carbon capture will prove difficult unless it’s complemented by an ocean-based effort.

People

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Harbr Testing New Fintech Product

  • Jun 17, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Harbr, the Halifax-based maker of project management software for the construction industry, is testing a fintech service that CEO Dave Kim says will help address systemic problems with late payments in the sector.

The company’s main offering is a

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Outcast, B4 Reveal Staff Moves

  • Jun 17, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Several high-profile companies and organizations in the Halifax area, including Outcast Foods and b4checkin, have announced changes in senior management in the past few days.

Dartmouth-based Outcast Foods, which makes powdered food products from

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Survey Shows Support for Indigenous Entrepreneurs

  • Jun 17, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

A new national Leger survey sheds light on how Canadians, including Atlantic residents, view the need for healthy Indigenous businesses.

Coinciding with National Indigenous History Month, the survey probes attitudes towards Indigenous businesses in

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Introhive Round Pushes NB to record

  • Jun 16, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Six months into 2021, New Brunswick startups have already blown past their fundraising totals from previous years, with at least $136 million of capital raised.

Most of that money comes from Introhive’s record-breaking C$122 million Series C

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