Technow Plans Biologics as BIOVECTRA Pillar

As Charlottetown-based drug manufacturer BIOVECTRA launches its new, $90 million biomanufacturing facility, CEO Oliver Technow says expansion of its production capacity is an important part of its plans to stay internationally competitive.

BIOVECTRA was the only Atlantic Canadian company last year to crack Ontario-based Communitech’s inaugural Team True North list of startups that are on track

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Startups Must Pursue Global Markets: Radian6 Alumni

The entrepreneurs behind Radian6, one of the startups that helped put Atlantic Canada on the innovation map, have a message for founders: think bigger.

Marcel LeBrun was Radian6’s CEO, and David Alston was its chief marketing officer. When their company was bought by Salesforce for US$276 million in cash and US$50 million in stock in 2011, the deal was a formative one for the Atlantic Canadian

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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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