CandidateHub Readies Healthcare Push

Riverview, N.B. recruitment automation startup CandidateHub.io is eyeing sales to private healthcare facilities in the United States after receiving $50,000 from Kaleidoscope Social Impact, a Saint John-based social impact investor that offers loans and training programs to entrepreneurs.

CandidateHub CEO Brad DiPaolo said in an interview that his company is aiming to help private hospital

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Doris Grant Named BioNova VP

Nova Scotia industry group BioNova has appointed Doris Grant, formerly a high-ranking Nova Scotia Health Authority civil servant, as its vice president of business development and strategy.

At the NSHA, Grant was senior director of innovation, overseeing the Health Innovation Hub that often collaborates with healthtech and biotech startups. Before that, she spent more than 14 years running

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PEI BioAlliance Announces $50M BioAccelerator

A $50 million funding package to create a new BioAccelerator life sciences hub on Prince Edward Island, announced Friday, is set to become the largest single investment in economic development infrastructure in the province’s history.

Spearheaded by industry group the PEI BioAlliance, the BioAccelerator will include 75,000 square feet of space for biomanufacturing research and manufacturing

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City of Fredericton Plans Boost Ideation Camp

For a week this March, entrepreneurs, students and researchers will gather in Fredericton for the city’s Boost Ideation Camp with the aim of developing new ways to track and reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Backed by Fredericton business incubator Planet Hatch and economic development agency Ignite Fredericton, the event will choose applicants partly based on whether they have

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CarbonCure, Heirloom Manage World First for Carbon Capture

Dartmouth’s CarbonCure Technologies has managed to successfully sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide in concrete as part of a joint project with Brisbane, California-based Heirloom, in what both companies have described as a world first.

CarbonCure already sells technology to inject carbon dioxide into concrete, sequestering it and strengthening the end product. What makes the Heirloom project

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SiftMed Raises $2.7M

St. John’s-based SiftMed, which sells software for cleaning up disorganized medical records, has raised a $2.7 million seed round led by the Atlantic Canadian female-focused VC fund Sandpiper Ventures

Chief Executive Holly Hill said in an interview she plans to use the money to hire more staff, as well as for product development and accelerating already-underway commercialization efforts.

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