Milk Moovement Raises $26M

Halifax’s Milk Moovement, which makes supply chain management software for the dairy industry, has raised a US$20 million or C$26 million round of Series A funding as it looks to expand its product development team.

The round, led by San Francisco-based specialist venture capital firm VMG Catalyst, is one of the largest funding raises so far this year in Atlantic Canada, topped only by deals

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BreatheSuite Launches in Atlantic Canada

St. John's-based medtech startup BreatheSuite has announced the Atlantic Canadian launch of its product for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or COPD, patients, and sweetening the offering with one-on-one coaching.

CEO Brett Vokey, whose company makes hardware and software that helps people use inhalers more effectively, said in an interview the East Coast is the first stage of

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Venn Launches the Junction in Moncton

The Junction, a new downtown 16,000 square-foot innovation centre in Moncton, has been opened by startup hub Venn Innovation, which describes it as the largest tech-focused facility of its kind in New Brunswick.

“Today, we are opening a place where the tech sector, from startups to global market leaders, can come together to meet, network, learn and share. This is a place to build what’s next,”

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Supercluster To Offer Bluetech Mentorship

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is launching a mentorship program aimed at helping underrepresented groups find employment opportunities in the ocean economy.

The Supercluster, whose five-year mandate ends next year, is best known for funding partnerships on oceans-related research and development projects, though it also supports ecosystem projects aimed at improving the sustainablity and diversity

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NB Data Talk Set for July 14

Entrevestor journalists Peter Moreira and Avery Mullen will share findings from our 2021 Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report in a live event at the Cyber Centre in Fredericton’s Knowledge Park July 14.

Our report is the benchmark source of data about the Atlantic Canadian startup community. Our proprietary database — which we use to write the report, presenting the data only in aggregate to

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Avanade to Open Halifax Office

Avanade, the Seattle company that helps enterprise clients upgrade and manage their computer systems using Microsoft technology and infrastructure, plans to hire 300 people in Halifax over the next two years.

Founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Microsoft and Irish-American service company Accenture — still its parent company — Avanade now employs about 56,000 people, with offices in 26

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MARS VR Joins Standards Group

Halifax’s MARS VR Lab, which is developing a virtual reality hardware and software suite that gamifies the process of teaching children how to operate motorized wheelchairs, has joined the council that will set industry standards for the metaverse.

Founded last month, The Metaverse Standards Forum is meant to serve as an international working group setting technical standards for the

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UNB Eyes Doubling Computer Science Students

The University of New Brunswick is looking to double the number of students in its Faculty of Computer Science by 2026, spurred partly by the information technology labour shortage and partly by its goal of improving tech sector opportunities for minority groups.

Dean Luigi Benedicenti said in an interview that to support an expanded student body, the computer science faculty plans to also

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