12 Pitch at Volta Investment Day

Twelve companies pitched at Halifax startup hub Volta’s first Investment Day event Wednesday, which it hosted in collaboration with accelerator Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic.

The event was held at Volta’s new offices in downtown Halifax’s Armoyan Centre and gave seed-stage and Series A companies the chance to pitch to an audience of funders and industry players from both inside and outside

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InkWell in US Market, Pursuing Health Canada Approval

InkWell Health, which has developed technology to help orthopaedic surgeons remotely monitor patients’ recoveries, has entered commercialization in the United States as it looks to raise capital and build out a network of doctors using its system.

With the help of temporary tattoos and a smartphone app, InkWell uses photos to model and track a joint surgery patient’s range of motion and how much

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Thank You to All who Supported Entrevestor Live

We'd like to thank everyone who made Entrevestor Live on Tuesday such a smashing success. 

We gathered at the Tribe Network in Halifax for an exhilirating showcase of some of the best entrepreneurs in the region. As well as the six live sessions in Halifax, a look back at Radian6 was livestreamed to us from University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. The presentations were absolutely splendid.

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In Cleantech, Plenty of Room at the Top: Risley

John Risley’s massive, 328-turbine wind energy and hydrogen production facility that he plans to build near St. George’s Bay in Newfoundland is part of what the serial entrepreneur and super-angel describes as the most significant business trend of his career: the global transition to clean energy.

Best known as the co-founder of Clearwater Seafoods, which was sold to a consortium that included

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How Proposify Reshaped its Financials

When veteran startup executive Kathy Doucette joined Proposify in 2021, what she saw in the company’s finances made her feel like “the canary in the coal mine.”

Doucette is a veteran startup executive who has held financial leadership roles across businesses as diverse as law firm Cox and Palmer and data analytics specialist Talem AI. When she became chief operating officer and chief financial

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Arolytics Eyes U.S. Expansion

When Arolytics raised $3.5 million last month it did so on the back of 250 percent revenue growth from 2021 to 2022, as governments in Canada and the United States tee up stricter methane emissions rules governing oil and gas projects.

Liz O’Connell, Chief Executive of the Halifax- and Calgary-based maker of environmental reporting software, said in an interview that the new funding will go

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Climatetech Heating Up: Tom Rand

Atlantic Canadian cleantech companies like Dartmouth-based superstar CarbonCure and Halifax’s Arolytics, which recently raised $3.5 million, stand to benefit from a broad shift in attitudes towards environmental technology plays from investors not just on the East Coast, but industry-wide, according to ArcTern Ventures managing partner Tom Rand.

In an interview Friday, he said that despite a

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Genesis Anounces Pitch & Pick Finalists

Newfoundland and Labrador innovation hub Genesis has announced the six companies it has selected to compete in a revised version of its Pitch & Pick startup competition Nov. 15, this time with $15,000 of prizes on offer.

The winner of the Pitch & Pick Invitational, which has drawn its competitors from Genesis’ Evolution “pre-incubator,” will take home $10,000 this year, compared to $2,000 in

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Life Sciences NS Offers Mentorship Program for 12 Execs

Industry group Life Sciences Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to the 2024 cohort of its CEO Circle mentorship program, though space is capped at 12 entrepreneurs.

The program is designed to facilitate peer-to-peer mentoring between executives from the world of biotech and life sciences innovation, and will run from January to June of next year, with a final event at Life Sciences Nova

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Greenlight Launching HarvestIQ

Greenlight Analytical, the Halifax maker of testing equipment for cannabis crops, is launching its first product, the HarvestIQ, on the back of raising about $300,000 over the summer.

The HarvestIQ is a modified mass spectrometer – a machine that analyzes the chemical composition of substances and lists their contents – paired with an artificial intelligence system that will translate the

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