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BreatheSuite Launches $1.8M AI project

  • Dec 19, 2024
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  • Dec 15, 2024
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Francis To Retire from PEI BioAlliance

  • Dec 12, 2024

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BreatheSuite Launches $1.8M AI project

  • Dec 19, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

St. John's-based medtech startup BreatheSuite, which helps people with respiratory problems, is working on a $1.77 million project to use artificial intelligence to operate more efficiently.

The Newfoundland and Labrador government put out a press

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Cartmill Retiring from LED Roadway Lighting

  • Dec 15, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based LED Roadway Lighting, a maker of innovative streetlights, has announced that founder Chuck Cartmill will step down as CEO on January 1.

LED Roadway Lighting began as a business Cartmill founded in Amherst, Nova Scotia in 2002,

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Francis To Retire from PEI BioAlliance

  • Dec 12, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

PEI BioAlliance is seeking a new CEO after long-time leader Rory Francis announced his retirement.

Founded in 2005, the PEI BioAlliance supports a bioscience cluster on the island of more than 60 companies with an annual combined revenue of over

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NACO Report Shows Drop in Angel Funding

  • Dec 11, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Angel investment in Canada fell dramatically in 2023 for the second straight year, threatening the country’s economic vitality, says a new report from the National Angel Capital Organization, or NACO. The report also found angel investment falling

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Anessa’s Awards Backed by Revenue Growth

  • Dec 10, 2024
  • Peter Moreira
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When the New Brunswick innovation community celebrated its annual InnovateNB awards recently, there was only one company that took home multiple awards – Fredericton-based Anessa.

The company’s Chief Technology Officer and

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Propel Hires Tech Industry Coaches

  • Dec 10, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Regional virtual accelerator Propel has announced the addition of two notable tech leaders to their coaching team: Rachel Cox of Halifax and Steph Burry of St. John’s.

Propel offers programming and coaching for pre-revenue and revenue-generating

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Bezanson Joins Life Sciences Nova Scotia

  • Dec 06, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Life Sciences Nova Scotia has appointed Krista Bezanson, a seasoned leader in economic development and business growth, as VP Business Development and Strategy.

Bezanson will be taking a leave of absence from her position with the Atlantic Canada

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Fall 2024 Evolution Pitch Winners Announced

  • Dec 05, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Participants in the Evolution accelerator run by St. John’s innovation hub Genesis have marked their graduation with a prize-allocating pitching session.

Evolution is Genesis’ pre-incubator, a 10-week program designed for early-stage technology

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Energia Celebrates Latest Cohort

  • Dec 05, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Energia Ventures, a three-month intensive accelerator for entrepreneurs with an innovative business in the energy, smart grid, clean tech, and cybersecurity sectors, is holding its Demo Day next week.

Energia, which is based in Fredericton at UNB’s

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SMU Students Win with Idea to Fight Loneliness

  • Dec 03, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

A student engagement platform designed to help address student loneliness within universities has won the recent Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre’s second annual Innovation Cup at Saint Mary's University in Halifax.

The platform, called

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King Charles III Medal Winners

  • Dec 03, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Several members of the Nova Scotian startup community have received King Charles III Coronation Medals in recognition of their contributions to this burgeoning segment of the economy.

Senator Colin Deacon, himself a veteran of a few startups,

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SmartSkin Lands International Award

  • Dec 02, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based SmartSkin Technologies has received the award for Best Manufacturing/Processing Innovation at the World Beverage Innovation Awards for 2024.

The award was presented last week by FoodBev Media in Germany at BrauBeviale, the trade

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