PEI’s Startup Zone Eyes Busy 2020

Startup Zone, the entrepreneurial incubator in the heart of Charlottetown, had a busy year in 2019, starting an in-house accelerator and co-hosting a MentorCamp. And now CEO Patrick Farrar is looking forward to more activity in 2020.

Patrick Farrar, who left a senior position with Venture for Canada in 2018 to become the CEO of Startup Zone, said the ecosystem in P.E.I. is evolving with a larger

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Eigen Promotes Picot, Barrett

Eigen Innovations, the Fredericton-based artificial intelligence solutions provider, is expanding the role of two senior team members, naming Greg Picot to the role of President and Chief Operating Officer, while Erin Barrett has been promoted to Chief Revenue Officer.

The company issued a press release Monday saying the changes are driven by the demands of Eigen’s growth trajectory and aim to

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Calling All Startups Launched in 2019

At Entrevestor, we’re now compiling our most recent databank of Atlantic Canadian startups, and we want to make sure we have every company that launched in the past year.

So we’re asking new innovation-based companies that have been flying below the radar to please let us know you’re out there.  We won’t publicize what you’re doing if you don’t want us to. We just want to make sure we account

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7th Wave Capital Launches

A new investment group called 7th Wave Capital has been launched to support five established businesses a year in the Maritime Provinces.

The new Halifax-based group is headed by Paul LeBlanc, best known for his communications ventures such as Coastal Communications. The 7th Wave group aims to back five companies each year, providing capital and mentorship from some of the region’s leading

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Moncton’s Prelam Aids SMEs

Moncton-based Prelam Enterprises, which specializes in odour control offerings like Just’a Drop and LUKY8, is offering to share its manufacturing facility and expertise to businesses in Atlantic Canada.

“We realized that a lot of small companies are doing it in their kitchen, in their garage, or basement. But if they want to scale up, there’s no real way to do that unless you invest a lot of

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MTI To List and Raise Up To $30M

Metamaterial Technologies Inc. of Dartmouth has received conditional approval for its public listing from the Canadian Securities Exchange, and expects to bring in as much as $30 million in capital in the coming months.

Founder and CEO George Palikaras said in an interview that the company, known as MTI, received approval from the Toronto-based stock exchange just before the holidays, and

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Cyno Teams Up With Shopify

St. John’s-based Cyno, whose online platform helps physiotherapists work with patients, has signed a service agreement with ecommerce giant Shopify to provide ergonomic services to corporations.

Cyno issued a press release Monday announcing the deal with Shopify, the Ottawa-based company that offers ecommerce services to more than 1 million businesses in more than 175 countries.

Together, they

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