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CAN Health Moves into Region

  • May 16, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

A network of public health organizations created to support Canadian medtech businesses is expanding into the Atlantic provinces, with an eye towards giving local startups an edge on their American competitors.

The CAN Health Network organizes

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Jobs: Director of Quality at Protocase

  • May 16, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Director of Quality at Protocase in Sydney.

Established in 2001, the company focuses on combining advances in software with advanced manufacturing techniques to offer unique custom

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Innovacorp Seeks ‘Accelerate’ Applicants

  • May 16, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp is launching a revamped version of its Accelerate program, which will replace both the old, longer program of the same name and the shorter Sprint accelerator.

Accelerate will be completely

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Polyamyna Preps for Clinical Trials

  • May 13, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based disinfectant maker Polyamyna Nanotech has inked a deal with Eastern Health to run clinical trials of its product once it receives Health Canada approval.

Polyamyna, which graduated from the Genesis Evolution program in January,

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Frenter Wins Volta Contest

  • May 13, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

A fledgling company that allows individuals to rent and hire personal items like sports equipment has won a pitching contest run by innovation hub Volta.

Halifax-based frenter soft launched on April 5th.  Fifteen-year-old Zachary Laberge, the

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CandidateHub Automates Recruiting

  • May 12, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

With COVID-19 making the hiring process more complex than ever, a Riverview, N.B. company has developed a solution to help automate the process of finding and attracting job seekers.

Brad DiPaolo is the founder of CandidateHub.io, which lets

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TriNav Wins Hull Design Challenge

  • May 12, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based TriNav Marine Design has won a $500,000 prize from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Hull Design Efficiency Challenge.

Founded in the 1990s, TriNav is a consulting firm with offices in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. The

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Atlantic FinTech at Payment Summit

  • May 12, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Industry group Atlantic FinTech will participate in the 2021 Payments Canada Summit, Canada’s largest payments conference, along with two Moncton-area companies that are members of the group. 

The association will be joined by purchase-to–payment

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Pivot to COVID Test Boosts LuminUltra

  • May 11, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

For a Fredericton life sciences company dating back more than two decades, the pandemic has offered an opportunity to reinvigorate its business and venture into the lucrative world of diagnostic medical testing.

LuminUltra was already an innovation

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IMV Tests Drug with Breast Cancer

  • May 11, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based drug discovery company IMV has announced that its lead compound, known as maveropepimut-S, will be trialed in patients with hormone receptor positive/HER2-negative breast cancer.

In a statement, the company said these tumors

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Audioptics Lands $732K from ACOA, IRAP

  • May 11, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based Audioptics Medical, whose device can see through eardrums to study the middle ear, has received a $492,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and a $240,000 grant from the National Research Council of Canada’s

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Cydarien Adds Security to Software Testing

  • May 10, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Ali Ghorbani has launched a new company, and not surprisingly it is focused on cybersecurity.

An academic, researcher and serial entrepreneur, Ghorbani is the Director of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity in Fredericton, and his new company

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