Dal Demo Day Set for Oct. 6

Dal Innovates will hold its annual Demo Day on Oct. 6, featuring teams from across the country that have participated in the AI2Market, Campus2Market and Lab2Market programs.

The event will be held at the Joseph Strug Concert Hall on the Dalhousie University campus, beginning at noon. The pitches begin at 1:30 p.m.

The participants have completed the Launch stream of three programs offered

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Cape Breton Capital Launches Second Fund

Cape Breton Capital Group has launched a new $1.2 million angel investment fund focused on early-stage companies with connections to Cape Breton.

The Cape Breton Future Fund, or CBFF, will invest in qualifying small businesses that are registered in Nova Scotia and have a meaningful connection to Cape Breton. That connection can include research and development activity, executive leadership, a

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The Rounds Acquired by Native Touch

The Rounds, the Halifax-based company that developed a social network for medical professionals, has exited after being acquired by Native Touch, a Toronto digital advertising firm.

In an interview, CEO Tim Rice said that The Rounds – whose corporate name is Boondoc Technologies Inc. – was sold in May to Native Touch, which owns a portfolio of companies that have synergies with the Halifax

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Couturier Named CEO of Green Imaging

Fredericton-based Green Imaging Technologies has appointed Norm Couturier as chief executive officer while Co-Founder Derrick Green has moved into the newly created role of chief technology officer.

The changes took effect July 15 and are intended to give separate executive oversight to the company's commercial operations and technology development.

Couturier had served as chief operating

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Natural Products Canada Lands $50M from Feds

The federal government has announced $50 million in funding for Natural Products Canada (NPC) to help expand Canada's agri-food innovation sector through a project valued at $94.8 million.

The funding, provided through the Strategic Response Fund, will support NPC's efforts to commercialize Canadian agrifood and bio-based technologies and increase their adoption in domestic and international

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Tribe Supports 70+ Founders with Small Grants

Tribe Network says more than 70 Black, Indigenous, and racialized entrepreneurs across Atlantic Canada received support through its 2025–26 Start Small Grant Program.

The Halifax-based organization released the program's results on Tuesday, it provided a total of $50,000 in grants through the program, and the recipients generated more than $270,000 in revenue.

Funded by Emera Inc., the program

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Site 20/20 Lands $745K ACOA Loan

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has approved a $745,000 loan to Dartmouth-based Site 20/20 to help the traffic-control technology company expand its operations and increase production capacity.

The funding, announced Monday, will support the company as it accelerates product development, reduces costs, improves service delivery and expands into new markets.

Site 20/20 plans to retrofit a

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Elle, MD Closes $1.1M Pre-Seed Round

Nova Scotia medtech startup Elle, MD Technologies has raised C$1.1 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed financing round to support the first human clinical trial of its non-hormonal contraceptive device.

The New Minas-based company said the funding will allow it to begin its First-in-Human clinical trial of Livv at The Ottawa Hospital.

Livv is a non-hormonal vaginal contraceptive ring designed

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