A Note to our Readers

As a remotely operated business, we rely on our home Internet  connection and we're now working without Internet. 

Our Internet connection was knocked out after Fiona hit and we're working to get it restored. Eastlink has told us we will likely be back online on Oct. 13, and we're hoping everything will be running smoothly by that date. Avery Mullen is fully online and dutifully continuing to

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Impactful Raises $1.7M, Piloting Tech

On the back of quietly raising an unannounced pre-seed round in January, Dartmouth’s Impactful Health R&D is conducting pilot projects with several major players in the fish processing and packaging industries.

Founded by biomaterials researcher Mina Mekhail in 2017, Impactful is developing sustainable, antimicrobial packaging that prolongs the shelf life of fresh fish.

“All of our intellectual

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“Reverse Pitch Event” Coming to Sydney

Cape Breton’s Navigate Startup House is hosting a day-long “reverse pitch event” Oct. 13 that will see startups pitch their companies as if to investors, after which existing backers will explain why they bought in.

Dubbed Bring It Together, the day will also include several Q&A and panel events, including one featuring MC Permjot Valia, an innovation economy veteran who serves on the boards of

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Ring Rescue Launches Second Product

Dartmouth’s Ring Rescue, which was founded to sell a system for removing stuck jewelry from people’s fingers, has launched a second product line, which it calls the Dolphin.

Ring Rescue’s first offering uses air pressure to shrink the swelling in a patient’s finger, allowing stuck rings to slide off with the aid of a water-soluble lubricant. The system offers an alternative to doctors’ usual

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Supercluster Outlines Plans for Possible Second Mandate

With its five-year mandate set to expire next March, Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is applying to the federal government for a renewal of its funding as it aims to increase the size of the national ocean economy fivefold by 2035.

When it was created in 2018, the federally backed Supercluster set expectations that it would steward about $350 million worth of oceantech investment, with projects

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