Heart App Wins Health Canada Approval

St. John’s-based Sparrow BioAcoustics is celebrating Health Canada’s approval of Stethophone, an AI-powered app that allows users to capture and analyze heart sounds using a smartphone.

Designed for both healthcare professionals and personal use, Stethophone helps detect structural and rhythmic heart anomalies. The company is aiming to build the world’s biggest databank of cardiological

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Bell’s Entrepreneurial Struggles Inform New Role

With her own business on ice after seven years of operations, entrepreneur Tracy Bell is able to bring a lot of empathy to her new role as executive director of the Wallace McCain Institute, which aims to help business owners and entrepreneurial leaders throughout Atlantic Canada grow bigger, faster. 

Bell, a co-founder of Saint John-based Millennia TEA, a startup that imported frozen tea from

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Volta and CDL Offer Fall Investment Day

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL-Atlantic) and Volta are holding an investment day that will showcase high-potential, early-stage startups building innovative solutions in the region.

Founders will pitch their companies to a curated audience of active investors, ecosystem leaders and the tech community, organizers said in a press release.

There will be no prizes or judging, just straight pitches

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Bell Named MCI Executive Director

Well-known entrepreneur Tracy Bell is joining UNB Saint John-based Wallace McCain Institute as Executive Director, taking up her role over the next few weeks.

Bell who is from Rothesay, NB, first joined the institute in 2019 as a member of its Entrepreneurial Leaders Program, the institute said in a press release.

Bell co-founded a startup called Millennia TEA in 2017 and led that company until

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Spellbook in Deal with Thomson Reuters

Spellbook, the St. John’s legal software-maker that earlier this year raised US$20 million, has announced it has integrated content from Thomson Reuters Practical Law to allow clients to leverage the capabilities of both platforms.

Users now have access to thousands of Practical Law’s attorney-editor created standard documents and clauses directly within Spellbook’s AI-powered contract drafting

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Avalon Prepares To Enter U.S. Market

With its first NOVAC holographic display table in operation, Avalon Holographics of St. John’s is preparing to ramp up sales in the coming year and deploy working models to the U.S.

The company, which can legitimately claim to be a global leader in holographic display technology, received a $1.02 million grant from the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Industry, Energy and Technology in

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Tribe Seeks Applicants to BUILD and its Pitch Contest

Tribe Network, the Halifax-based startup support organization for BIPOC founders, is seeking participants for several of its programs.

The 15-week BSP BUILD program is a virtual offering that provides expert coaching in key disciplines like leadership, marketing, business development, finance and more.

To be eligible, you must be an early-stage Black or racialized entrepreneur in Atlantic

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