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Extending our Survey Offer

  • Apr 03, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

We’re extending by two weeks our offer to make a $10 donation to the Canadian Mental Health Association for every completed survey we receive from Atlantic Canadian startup CEOs.

We’re delighted with the responses we’ve received so far in our

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Genesis Seeks Evolution Applicants

  • Apr 02, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Genesis, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub, is looking for applicants to the summer cohort of its eight-week Evolution accelerator, which will start in June.

Genesis bills Evolution as a “pre-incubator” course meant to prepare young

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EnPoint CEO Brine Wins International Mentorship Award

  • Mar 31, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Chantal Brine, CEO of Halifax-based mentorship software startup EnPoint, has won the Universal Women’s Network’s Women of Inspiration Mentorship Award.

Based in Calgary, the Universal Women’s Network is a global association for female executives

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Irvings Donate $5M for SMU Entrepreneurship Centre

  • Mar 31, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The Irving family of New Brunswick has donated $5 million to the Saint Mary’s University Entrepreneurship Centre, with the money going towards hastening an already underway expansion.

The project is also being renamed the Arthur L. Irving

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Reazent Pursues Regulatory Approval, Raising Capital

  • Mar 30, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based Reazent has joined the P.E.I. BioAlliance’s Emergence startup incubator as it seeks regulatory approval to sell its sustainable fertilizer products in Canada and finishes raising a seed round.

Chief Executive Sumit Verma said in an

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COAST Bags $2M Funding

  • Mar 30, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The Victoria-based Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies, or COAST, is getting a $2 million funding boost from the British Columbia government via its Innovative Clean Energy Fund.

Created in 2021 and operated by regional business group

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Peter MacAskill Named Invest NS CEO

  • Mar 28, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Invest Nova Scotia, the provincial agency formed from the amalgamation of Innovacorp and Nova Scotia Business Inc., has a president and CEO: NSBI veteran Peter MacAskill.

Since the merger last summer, Invest Nova Scotia has been headed by minister

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Ocean Startup Project Launches Cleantech Competition

  • Mar 28, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

National industry group the Ocean Startup Project is seeking applicants to its new cleantech competition, held under a partnership with the municipalities of Port Alberni, BC, Rimouski, QC and Yarmouth, NS.

The Ocean Communities Climate Challenge

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LaPlante Joining Ocean Supercluster

  • Mar 27, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Reflecting on her four years as executive director of Dalhousie University’s DeepSense hub for artificial intelligence in the blue economy as she prepares for a move to Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, Jennifer LaPlante highlights her work giving

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Dal Water Testing Research Gets Funding Boost

  • Mar 27, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Research Nova Scotia is spending $1.1 million to continue a Dalhousie University wastewater testing program that used sewage to track the spread of COVID-19 during the depths of the pandemic.

Researchers from the Centre for Water Resources Studies,

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Canada’s Growing Network of Bluetech Accelerators

  • Mar 26, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

In preparing our latest Canadian oceantech report, one thing that has been striking is the swift evolution of a national network of accelerators for early-stage oceantech startups.

Five years ago, any Canadian bluetech entrepreneur looking for a

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Smart Energy Event Seeks Pitchers

  • Mar 26, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based conference organizer Jameson Group is looking for cleantech startups to compete in a pitch challenge at its 19th annual Smart Energy Event, attended by a roster of about 400 national delegates from the smart energy industry.

Winning

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