Gray Wolf Launching Early Adopter Program

Fredericton cybersecurity startup Gray Wolf Analytics has signed a letter of intent with Ocean Falls Blockchain for the Vancouver-based company to become the first member of Gray Wolf’s early adopter program.

In a press release, Gray Wolf President Dhirendra Shukla said he and CEO Matthew Sampson plan to use the early adopter program to gather customer feedback. The two co-founders’ seven-person

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Planetary Closes $7.8M Round

Dartmouth cleantech startup Planetary Technologies has raised $7.8 million, including $4.2 million of equity funding and $3.6 million of grants to pilot its technology.

The investors include Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp and Apollo Projects, which is a venture capital firm owned by American tech luminaries the Altman brothers. Apollo invests in “moonshots” —

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SimplyCast Bags Larger Clients, Stays Remote

The CEO of a Dartmouth-based marketing and public safety automation startup with a history of innovation in employee management believes Atlantic Canada’s technology labour crunch is being mis-framed in the community discourse.

Saeed El-Darahali is the founder of SimplyCast, which is a platform that automates marketing and public safety-related digital tasks. He said in an interview that instead

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Longevity Economy Showcase Set for April 6

The Halifax chapter of silver economy group Aging2.0 is holding a virtual pitch competition next month for early-stage startups whose products are designed to improve the life of seniors.

The event will be part of the Longevity Economy Showcaae, a conference for people interested in business opportunities that come from meeting the needs of the elderly. You can register for the conference, which

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Genesis Tees Up Pitch & Pick

Eight teams will vie for a $2,000 first prize at Genesis’s next Pitch & Pick competition — the culmination of its eight-week Evolution accelerator.

There will also be a $1,000 second prize and a $500 Community Choice Award. 

The Evolution Program is held three times a year at the end of Evolution’s three annual cohorts, and the last winner was DuaScript, which makes software for compounding

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Volta Leap Deadline is April 13

Halifax startup hub Volta has opened applications for its free LEAP program, which aims to prepare entrepreneurs to submit an application to a startup accelerator, such as Creative Destruction Lab or Techstars.

Created in 2019 and headed-up by venture capital veteran Toon Nagtegaal, training will be held over four half-day sessions. Nagtegaal was a co-founder of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based

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Venn Garage Adds Five Companies

Venn Innovation, the New Brunswick startup hub, has added five early-stage startups to its Venn Garage incubator via its latest open pitch day — up from two companies from the previous, November pitch competition.

Beginning last year and so-far held online because of COVID-19, the Open Pitch Competitions require entrepreneurs to submit a five-minute video pitch and answer 10 minutes of questions

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Saint John Energy to Pilot Norwegian Power Tech

Saint John Energy, New Brunswick’s second-largest utility after NB Power, has inked a deal to pilot a suite of smart water heating and energy forecasting technology developed by a Norwegian consortium.

The technology was developed by Hokksund, Norway-based internet-of-things specialist OSO Energy, AI startup Kongsberg Digital and Epos Consulting. The pilot project will see Saint John Energy

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