Pow Wow Pitch Comes to NB

Pow Wow Pitch, the premier pitch competition for Indigenous entrepreneurs in North America, will hold a pitch event at the Natoageneg Traditional Powwow in New Brunswick in July.

The 23rd Natoaganeg Traditional Powwow will be held on the Eel Ground First Nation, overlooking the Miramichi River. On July 15, it will feature a Pow Wow Pitch competition in which participants can pitch their

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Emergence Incubator Responds to Life Sciences Trends in Atlantic Canada

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The PEI BioAlliance’s Emergence bioscience incubator is expanding its programming with new startup mentors across Atlantic Canada in what BioAlliance Executive Director Jason Cleaversmith describes as a response to the sector’s strong growth in recent years.

In November, Emergence received $3.18 million in new funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the

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COVE to Host Demo Day Wednesday

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE, will host its annual Demo Day on Wednesday, with bluetech companies demonstrating their innovations off the facility’s dock.

The event will include 17 exhibiting companies from as far away as British Columbia and Denmark, and COVE said in a statement it expects about 400 private sector and government decision-makers

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Halifax Partnership, Volta Team Up on Cleantech

Halifax Partnership and Volta announced Friday a joint program to support Nova Scotian cleantech companies at all stages of growth.

This partnership will give selected startups access to the Volta residency program and tailored support to help them thrive, they said in a statement.

The two organizations plan to work hand-in-hand to provide a comprehensive support system. The startups will

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Lab2Market Oceans Seeks Applicants

Memorial University and the Ocean Startup Project are calling for applications to their Lab2Market Oceans accelerator.

The program, part of a national group of accelerators, is aimed at helping academic researchers in the oceans space commercialize their work. It will run for 16 weeks, eight of which will be full time. Participants will also receive $15,000 of funding, as well as mentorship in

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CoLab’s Ford Deal Yields Productivity Gains

CoLab Software, the St. John’s maker of collaboration software for 3D modelling, is seeing early success from its sales deal with automotive giant Ford.

The carmaker uses CoLab’s system in its Ford Pro department, which makes fleet management software and hardware.

Ford Pro gives fleet operators the ability to track metrics like electric vehicle charging and driver behaviour. CoLab chief

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Cascadia Launches Fertilizer Product

Just in time for World Oceans Day, Sidney, B.C.-based Cascadia Seaweed is launching its first agricultural product — a kelp-based fertilizer dubbed ReFeed Seaweed Extract and released under a partnership with innovation hub ReFeed Canada.

The seaweed extract is a liquid plant food made from cultivated, cold-water kelp. Cascadia said in a statement it contains essential nutrients for plant growth

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Introhive Names Saeideh Fard CFO

Five months after it hired a new chief executive, Fredericton- and Miami-based artificial intelligence star Introhive also has a new chief financial officer.

Freshly minted CFO Saeideh Fard is a software-as-a-service veteran who most recently served as senior vice-president of finance at Toronto’s PointClickShare, a healthtech software-maker that ranks among North America’s largest privately

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