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Deal Will Help AIR Expand Nationally
The Halifax-based Atlantic Institute for Resilience has partnered with the CAN Health Network in an agreement that allows AIR to collaborate with health organizations across Canada.
AIR was founded in 2014 by psychiatrist Jackie Kinley, the
Uluer Wins EY Atlantic Entrepreneur of the Year
Hakan Uluer, CEO of The Bertossi Group of restaurants, has won this year’s EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award for the Atlantic Region.
Uluer, who received the award at a gala in Halifax last week, operates a group of high-end restaurants in the
ACOA Funds 9 Startups with $4M
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency on Friday announced non-dilutive funding totalling $4 million for nine Halifax startups to help them scale.
The federal regional development agency revealed the funding under ACOA’s Regional Economic Growth
Athlete Aid Focuses on Young Athletes
With the help of AI, two student entrepreneurs plan to help coaches and parents of injured junior athletes assess whether it is safe to let a player back in the game.
Isaac Hierlihy and Morgan MacKinnon, both 19, and second-year university students
Charlotte Murray Joining Farmers’ Truck
After seven years coaching founders at virtual accelerator Propel, Charlotte Murray is joining Moncton social enterprise The Farmers’ Truck where she will work to improve food security across the continent.
The Farmers’ Truck provides fresh,
Eigen Raises $2.6M
Fredericton-based Eigen Innovations, which sells an artificial intelligence system to perform quality control checks on production lines via thermal cameras, has raised a $2.6 million funding round.
The company said in a statement it has seen
Genesis Names Ed Martin President and CEO
St. John’s innovation hub Genesis has appointed Ed Martin, formerly Director of the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, its new President and Chief Executive Officer.
Before working as director at MCE, Martin co-founded and led Clockwork Fox
DependBuild in TechStars
Dependbuild, the St. John's maker of cloud software that helps municipalities and infrastructure developers assess risks to construction projects, has been accepted into TechStars accelerator in Ohio State University in Columbus.
The accelerator
The Future of Innovation Event Set for Friday
The University of New Brunswick's 2024 Future of Innovation Conference in Fredericton will focus on solutions for problems that are persistent throughout Canada and the world.
The annual conference, hosted by the university's J Herbert Smith Centre
How Dash Hudson Scaled to 220 People
It was a willingness to pivot based on market feedback that helped propel Halifax-based Dash Hudson to an enterprise employing 220 people, but it may have been a resolute focus on human resources that made the business sustainable.
Audiences at
Sparrow Closes $10M Funding Tranche
Having just closed $10 million in funding, Sparrow BioAcoustics is setting its sights on building the world’s biggest databank of cardiological recordings, and helping doctors and patients understand how that can help them.
Last week, the
Mysa Investors Return with $11M
St. John’s-based Mysa has closed an $11 million round of funding, which is a continuation of the $20.3 million Series B round it announced in 2021.
The investors in the continuation round are all returning from the previous funding round: Climate