Two Atlantic Canadian medtech companies have joined life sciences accelerators.

St. John's-based PragmaClin Research, which is developing technology to help monitor Parkinson’s patients, is joining the United Kingdom’s Plug and Play Health

Halifax- and Toronto-based MIMOSA Diagnostics, which makes a medical device for non-invasively assessing tissue damage, has received Health Canada approval six months after it launched its technology in the Untied States.

The sign-off paves the way

Halifax edtech-maker Shoelace Learning will be one of seven finalists to compete in the SXSW EDU Launch Startup Competition at the internationally recognized South by Southwest arts festival in Texas March 5.

Finalists also receive access to

New Brunswick’s Air Clarity Solutions is launching the pilot program for its water-based industrial air filtration systems with clients in Atlantic Canada next week as founder Mike Rushton looks to make environments like auto body shops and boat

Tribe Network, the Halifax-based professional organization for racialized startup founders, now counts more than 1,000 people and organizations among its members and has worked directly with 700 program participants in its three-year history.

Those

Motion capture and exercise software startup Parados has reached several hundred users as it scales up its Canadian business development efforts in the new year, says CEO Pascal McCarthy.

Parados’s software analyzes video of workers performing a

Provincial economic development agency Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to the next cohort of its GreenShoots accelerator, which offers up to $40,000 of funding.

GreenShoots offers agtech, biotech and cleantech companies funding and

Invest Nova Scotia will host a virtual Investor Showcase presentation showcasing 17 of its portfolio companies to an audience of international investors Feb. 6 at 1:00 p.m.

The provincial agency, which invests in startups via its venture capital

Memorial University’s Centre for Social Enterprise is looking for applicants to its year-long Social Ventures Incubator, which offers $2,500 of funding.

The program is open to current Memorial students and alumni who graduated within the last 12

Invest Nova Scotia spent $8.8 million across 16 venture capital deals for its 2022-2023 fiscal year, which ended last March, and dispersed just under another $6.5 million to VC funds.

With another year-end on the horizon for Invest Nova Scotia,

Spellbook, the St. John’s legal software-maker, has raised a US$20 million or about C$27 million Series A funding round after being approached by returning investor iNovia Capital with an offer late last year.

The deal, which was signed just before

Memorial University and the Ocean Startup Project have announced the 19 companies in the latest cohort of their seven-week Lab2Market Oceans program.

Part of a national group of accelerators, Lab2Market Oceans is aimed at helping academic