Webinars for Ocean Innovators

The pandemic has led the pan-regional Ocean Startup Project to cancel its in-person Engage Café events and allow virtual participation through a weekly #OceanofOpportunities webinar series.

The interactive webinar is designed for those who have ideas for ocean companies and technology solutions. The first webinar, at 12 noon AST on Thursday, April 2, will feature Julie Angus, CEO and co-founder

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Fieldetect Team Lands $355K Grant

A research team affiliated with Charlottetown-based Fieldetect Inc. has received a $355,000 federal grant to convert its veterinary product to a medtech device that could test for Covid-19 in humans.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, or CIHR, announced Friday that it would provide the grant to a research team led by the University of Prince Edward Island. The team has been developing a

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ShiftKey Plans Virtual Hackathon

ShiftKey Labs, the Nova Scotia post-secondary sandbox focusing on digital technologies, is planning a “virtual hackathon” to find tech solutions to social problems created by the Covid-19 crisis.

The group has hosted several hackathons in the past year, and they have even resulted in the creation of startups. But it had to postpone a few other events – including a hackathon focusing on the

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EOceans Launches App Amid Covid-19

Halifax-based eOceans, which is developing an online platform for gathering ocean data, has launched its app early to gather data on how the Covid-19 crisis is impacting the oceans and people who live near them.

Founder and CEO Christine Ward-Paige sent out a message Friday saying the company has launched its app for Android and iOS, which will allow scientists and other people around the world

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Jobs: CloudKettle’s Business Analyst

Some businesses are continuing to grow during the current downturn, and Halifax-based CloudKettle is one of them. Its opening for a Business Analyst is our Job of the Week column today.

Halifax-based CloudKettle is a consulting company that helps business-to-business SaaS companies improve their use of Salesforce and the Google Marketing Platform to increase revenues. Almost all of its clients

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$600K from RNS for Covid-19

Research Nova Scotia is contributing $600,000 in rapid response match funding to Dr. David Kelvin of Dalhousie University who is looking for biomarkers that indicate the severity of the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.

Kelvin and his international research colleagues are looking for a way to quickly identify the severity of the virus in those who test positive for COVID-19. RNS is

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IMV Working on Covid-19 Vaccine

Dartmouth-based drug discovery company IMV Inc. said Wednesday that it is making advancements on a possible vaccine for Covid-19.

The company said it will use its DPX delivery platform, which releases drugs in doses over an extended period of time, with the goal of developing a vaccine against the disease that has spread around the globe this year. Vaccines against infectious disease have been a

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Funders See Deals Despite Downturn

An economic downturn is never good news for startups raising capital, but early-stage companies in Atlantic Canada will likely be buffered somewhat by the strong participation of government in funding high growth companies.

Interviews with several Atlantic Canadian funders revealed a belief that there will still be funds available to promising companies – especially those that need less than,

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