Keevill Named Mariner COO

Another telecommunications veteran is joining Mariner Partners. Chris Keevill, who previously worked as CEO of the Atlantic Lottery Corporation, is Mariner’s new Chief Operating Officer.

Mariner is the 270-person firm founded by former NBTel CEO and Aliant Telecom President Gerry Pond and a cadre of his collaborators. It serves as the umbrella corporation for a basket of other businesses,

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MacAulay Plots New Course for Startup Zone

Sheryl MacAulay, the freshly minted CEO of Charlottetown innovation hub Startup Zone, is readying a host of new partnerships and program offerings as the organization looks to expand its client base.

MacAulay was elevated to CEO while she was on maternity leave and began work Nov. 1. She was previously the Director of Policy and Communications for the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of

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Volta Names DiPaolo Talent Czar

As Atlantic Canadian startups continue to grapple with a skilled labour shortage, Halifax technology hub Volta has hired Candidate Hub CEO Brad DiPaolo to help its resident companies compete for employees.

DiPaolo co-founded Candidate Hub in 2020 with software developer Sebastien Aube. The two are in the process of dialing-in a minimum viable product that will use cookies and web-tracking to

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Innovacorp Seeks Accelerate Applicants

Innovacorp, Nova Scotia’s venture capital Crown corporation, is looking for applicants for its five Innovacorp Accelerate streams: bluetech, healthtech, agtech, cleantech and software.

The participating companies, which must have sales of less than $1 million and equity investment of less than $250,000, will each receive up to $40,000 in grants -- up from $25,000 for previous cohorts. They will

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Supercluster Eyes Next Mandate

With Canada’s Ocean Supercluster set to have its first mandate expire in 14 months, CEO Kendra MacDonald said in an interview that the organization is in “active talks” with the federal government about extending its operations.

Tasked by the federal government with fostering a sustainable and inclusive ocean economy, the Supercluster's first mandate calls for it to distribute $153 million over

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Job of the Week: Co-Founder at Practicare

Our Job of the Week column today features a job title we’ve never posted before: Co-Founder/Entrepreneur.

St. John’s-based Seafair Capital, a community investment company, is launching a new business called Practicare, a digital-first training platform for the community care sector. It wants to spin this business into an independent company and is looking for a Co-Founder to head the initiative.

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Rising Demand at TME Program

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The story of how the four co-founders of Picketa Systems formed the AgTech company as their capstone project at UNB’s Faculty of Engineering makes for a pretty interesting tale. The fact that the team of four achieved this when the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus was closed due to the pandemic makes it astonishing.

The startup’s co-founders – Xavier

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Volta Redesigns Academy

Halifax startup hub Volta is switching from 12-week cohorts to a rolling enrolment model for its Academy training program for very early-stage founders.

The free course was previously held twice a year. Now, intake will be continuous and the program will be split into four segments that entrepreneurs will be able to start at any time.

Each of the four modules will focus on a different topic --

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Summer Institute Seeks Applicants

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management & Entrepreneurship is looking for applicants to its 13-week Summer Institute accelerator.

The Summer Institute teaches sales, marketing, and customer validation skills. Although based in Fredericton, the Institute also accepts companies from elsewhere in the province and even other countries.

While most startup

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Frenter Closes $270K Raise

In the wake of a pivot, Halifax’s Frenter has raised $270,000 from a consortium of investors that includes John Risley’s CFFI Ventures, Mark Dobbins’s Killick Capital and several funds from outside Atlantic Canada.

The $270,000 close is part of a planned $450,000 equity round that Frenter's 16-year-old CEO Zach Laberge announced in August. He told Entrevestor in an interview he has decided to

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