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Rally Inks Deal with Cox & Palmer

  • May 26, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Having already signed on about 40 American law firms as clients, legal software maker Rally has inked a deal with the Atlantic Canadian law firm Cox & Palmer to help provide legal services to the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

Based in St.

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Eight Join Scale-Up Hub: Atlanta

  • May 26, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Eight companies have been named to Scale-Up Hub: Atlanta, a new program that helps high-growth Atlantic Canadian companies increase their sales in the U.S. Southeast.

In the Scale-Up Hub program, which began in 2018 in Cambridge, Mass., Atlantic

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Linking CarbonCure to Lindbergh

  • May 26, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The Halifax Innovation District has posted a new feature on CarbonCure Technologies, which compares the Halifax cleantech company’s recent Carbon XPRIZE win with Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Penned by Entrevestor Reporter

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Region Raised $35M in VC in Q1

  • May 25, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canadian companies secured a better-than-average $35 million in venture capital funding in the first quarter of 2021, and continued to attract private equity financing, said the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association on

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Halifax Innovation Outpost Backs Harbr, Tranqility

  • May 25, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

The Halifax Innovation Outpost, a joint project between the city and the Halifax Partnership think-tank, has announced that it will back construction fintech startup Harbr and mental health app Tranquility in a bid to help the two companies scale

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Demo Days To Feature 37 NS Startups

  • May 24, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Two Nova Scotian groups supporting startups will hold virtual demo days in the next week, showcasing a total of 37 companies based in the province.

The Emera IDEAhub, Dalhousie University’s hardware incubator, will host its first IDEA Demo Day on

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Jobs: Adaptiiv Seeks Engineers

  • May 24, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

A pair of openings at Halifax-based medtech company Adaptiiv – for a Senior Software Engineer and a DevOps Engineer – headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Adaptiiv, which raised $3.4 million in equity financing last year, has developed a

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Older Nova Scotians Focus of Silver Summit

  • May 24, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Nova Scotia's upcoming Silver Economy Summit will highlight the opportunities within and for the province’s growing population of older adults.

In a statement, organizers said the conference is for anyone interested in finding out how older adults

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IRAP Funds 3 Bio Projects in NS

  • May 20, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Three Nova Scotia life sciences companies have received a total of $1.2 million in R&D funding as part of a joint program between National Research Council’s IRAP and its British counterpart.

IRAP – whose full name is Industrial Research Assistance

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Volta Cohort Names 5 Winners

  • May 20, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Social ventures were the big winners at the Volta Cohort pitching event on Wednesday, as five companies addressing problems like food insecurity and plastic waste were awarded a total of $125,000 in funding.

The five winners, which will each

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7 Teams Join Summer Institute

  • May 19, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The University of New Brunswick’s Summer Institute has launched its eighth cohort with seven companies participating in the virtual program.

Whereas most accelerators teach lean methodology to innovation-driven startups, the Summer Institute

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Report Examines Inclusion in NS

  • May 19, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

A new report called the Nova Scotia Inclusive Innovation Monitor highlights inequities in the Nova Scotia innovation ecosystem.

The report, prepared by Ryerson University’s Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship, is an offshoot of a

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