The Black Startup Project is inviting BIPOC entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada to submit a two-minute video pitch on which they will receive personalized feedback from Black mentors, entrepreneurs, facilitators, and industry allies.

The top five pitches will each win $500 to put toward their business, organizer Alfred Burgesson, CEO of the organizing Tribe Network said in an email.

Pitches are

St. John’s-based PragmaClin Research is preparing to test its system for monitoring Parkinson’s Disease patients in both Newfoundland and Labrador and Britain on the back of raising more than $1 million of non-dilutive funding since its founding.

Created in 2020 by Memorial University PhD candidate Bronwyn Bridges and Gord Genge, a Parkinson’s sufferer, PragmaClin uses depth-sensing cameras and

Armando Balboni, the CEO of Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics is leaving his role to become the company’s chairman and rejoin the United States military as Director of the Life Sciences Research Center at the United States Air Force academy. He will also oversea a deal that will see Appili produce a tularemia vaccine for the Department of Defence.

The deal, worth US$14 million

The PEI BioAlliance has received $3.18 million in funding from the governments of Canada and Prince Edward Island to help fund the next iteration of its Emergence Bioscience Business Incubator.

The federal government’s Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency issued a press release on Thursday saying it would provide $2.35 million through the Regional Economic Growth through Innovation program. The

My grandfather, artillery officer H.P. MacKeen, shown on the left, wrote this poem in Ypres in September 1917, two months before the Battle of Passchendaele.

 

The White Cross

It isn’t a medal or order,

It carries no ribbon or braid

But a token still

As on Calvary Hill

Of the greater sacrifice made.

 

It stands as a lonely sentinel

O’er the place where the hero sleeps

‘Neath a lowly

MESH/Diversity, the New Brunswick company whose software helps organizations improve diversity and inclusion, has launched a new program to help human resource executives and others improve their skills.

The company announced recently that it is now offering the new DEI Builder program, a three-week course that helps to train people in the skills needed in diversity, equity and inclusion, or

The fourth annual Atlantic Technology Summit takes place next week in Halifax with highlights including a fireside chat between Dragons’ Den investor Michele Romanow and CBC host Nora Young.

Taking place next Wednesday, Nov.16, online and at the Cineplex in Park Lane, the full-day event will feature technology leaders, industry disruptors and tech workers from the four Atlantic provinces and

Halifax edtech company Shoelace Learning, which specializes in the gamification of learning, has announced the $3 million first close of its seed round, which it hopes will soon reach $4.5 million.

The company plans to use the money to add three more educational games to its platform and attract 10 million new users over the next 24 months.

The round was led by first-time investor Sandpiper

Innovacorp has revealed it invested a total of $2.1 million in nine companies in what was likely its final complete fiscal year, and admits the totals were lower than expected.

The Nova Scotia government’s venture capital agency recently released its Accountability Report for the 2021-22 fiscal year, which ended on March 31. After investing an above-average $9.7 million the previous year to help

Halifax-based Sustane Technologies has won the Innovator of the Year category at the 2022 Mobius Awards for Environmental Excellence, presented last week by Divert Nova Scotia.

The company has developed technology that transforms curbside garbage into high-value fuels and biomass pellets — converting up to 90 percent of the municipal-solid-waste into valuable commercial products.

Divert Nova