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Charcoal Names Mike Cyr COO
Charcoal Marketing has announced that Mike Cyr, long a pillar of the organization, is its new Chief Operating Officer.
Cyr has been an integral part of the Charcoal team for five years. He is a specialist in digital media and played a key role in
ACOA Funds 4 Cleantech Startups
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has announced about $2.8 million worth of loans for a quartet of cleantech startups, including Halifax’s Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, which last month closed a $10.2 million series A funding
Supercluster Seeks Offshore Renewables Projects
Canada's Ocean Supercluster is asking for project proposals related to scalable renewable energy projects.
The Supercluster, which arranges joint funding agreements with private sector consortiums, is particularly interested in backing projects
Smallfood Named XPRIZE Finalist
Two years after Dartmouth construction technology startup CarbonCure won the internationally noted NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, another Atlantic Canadian company, Halifax’s Smallfood, is one of six finalists in the competition’s US$15 million foodtech
Bank Scan Pro, Apollo Festival Win Spark Cape Breton
The Spark Nova Scotia startup competition, which last fall held two pitching events on the province’s mainland, has announced its Cape Breton winners, both software companies: artificial intelligence bookkeeping startup Bank Scan Pro and festival
Ocean Tech Council of NS, Innovate UK, Fund Ocean Exploration
A quartet of oceantech and computer vision startups, two each from Canada and England, will receive a combined $500,000 to develop sensor and decision-making technology for uncrewed marine vessels under a partnership between the Ocean Technology
Volta, ideaHUB to Host Media Relations Event
Halifax startup hubs Volta and the Emera ideaHUB on May 23 will host a free seminar on media relations for startups, delivered by Entrevestor Co-Founder Peter Moreira.
Slated to be held at noon at the IdeaHUB on Dalhousie University's Sexton
Mysa Buys Zen Ecosystems’ IP
St. John’s-based Mysa Smart Thermostats has bought the intellectual property of Zen Ecosystems, with plans to incorporate the Costa Mesa, Calif. startup’s offerings into its own product line and ramp up efforts to land commercial clients inside of a
Verschuren Centre Bags Forestry Trust Funding
The Sydney-based Verschuren Centre, which provides lab space to startups that need industrial fermentation and bioprocessing facilities, is receiving $926,500 from the Nova Scotia Forestry Innovation Transition Trust to help with the
ZeroIN Wins Swiss Foodtech Competition
Halifax maker of sugar substitutes ZeroIN Foods, which last year received funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Sustainable Development Technology Canada, is one of six companies to win startup accelerator MassChallenge
Summer Institute Announces Cohort
The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship has announced the latest cohort of its Summer Institute accelerator for pro-social startups.
The five participating companies, which span a
Invest NS Offers Research Funding
Nova Scotia’s provincial business development agency and venture capital office, Invest Nova Scotia, is looking for applicants to its Productivity and Innovation Voucher Program, which provides funding for small companies to tap university research