Marc St-Onge Talks Smallfood

Halifax-based Smallfood, one of the stars of the East Coast foodtech scene, is raising a Series A funding round and preparing to open a new plant in Dartmouth that CEO Marc St-Onge expects to generate the company’s first commercial revenue.

He said in an interview the raise follows “extremely successful” aquaculture trials of Smallfood’s algae-based fish feed products, as well as a smaller

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3D BioFibR Raises $3.5M

Less than a month after the launch of its first two products, Halifax life sciences startup 3D BioFibR has closed an equity-and-debt  seed round worth just over $3.52 million.

Chief Executive Kevin Sullivan said in an interview that the money will go towards automating and scaling up the company’s manufacturing processes in the wake of the product launches, including via a new manufacturing

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C-Therm Targeting EV Market

Fredericton-based C-Therm Technologies, which has developed a range of tools for testing materials’ thermal conductivity, plans to expand its offerings with a suite of new products suitable for use in electric vehicle production.

The move comes after C-Therm’s initial entry into the EV market saw its profits rise 20 percent last year on the back of record sales. The company is currently growing

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MIMOSA Raises Capital, Launches in US

MIMOSA Diagnostics, the Halifax- and Toronto-based maker of a medical device for non-invasively assessing tissue health, has raised an undisclosed funding round as it launches in its beachhead market, the United States.

The raise took the form of a convertible debenture — a hybrid debt and equity financing instrument that gives investors the right to purchase shares later at a predetermined

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NB Cyber Cluster Reflects on IBM Job Losses

The Fredericton cybersecurity community has been shaken this summer by more than 100 layoffs at IBM, though officials in the sector believe it is strong enough to withstand the blow.

The Fredericton Gleaner first reported earlier this month that IBM was cutting an unspecified number of positions, and that the cuts came just months after the blue chip IT company announced it would create up to

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Volta Seeks Bluetech Companies to Pitch

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to pitch at its Virtual Ocean Tech Pitch Competition on Aug. 23.

The competition will see bluetech founders deliver short pitches and then receive feedback from a panel of of industry experts. The judging will be based on the quality of both the pitch and the underlying business, and the winner will receive a $500 Visa gift card.

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CDL Oceans Deadline Approaches

Dalhousie University’s CDL Atlantic, part of the internationally noted Creative Destruction Lab network of startup accelerators, is still looking for this fall’s Oceans cohort. The deadline to apply is July 28, with programming beginning in October.

The nine-month program, founded by University of Toronto management professor Ajay Agrawal and now with operations in six countries, is

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