Frenter Wins Volta Contest

A fledgling company that allows individuals to rent and hire personal items like sports equipment has won a pitching contest run by innovation hub Volta.

Halifax-based frenter soft launched on April 5th.  Fifteen-year-old Zachary Laberge, the venture’s Founder, said the company already has 40 users. Frenter is about to launch its #takebacksummer campaign which will help people celebrate the

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CandidateHub Automates Recruiting

With COVID-19 making the hiring process more complex than ever, a Riverview, N.B. company has developed a solution to help automate the process of finding and attracting job seekers.

Brad DiPaolo is the founder of CandidateHub.io, which lets employers peer into the “hidden talent market” -- people who are eyeing a potential employer, but haven’t formally reached out. The software is being

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Atlantic FinTech at Payment Summit

Industry group Atlantic FinTech will participate in the 2021 Payments Canada Summit, Canada’s largest payments conference, along with two Moncton-area companies that are members of the group. 

The association will be joined by purchase-to–payment software platform SnapAP and WeyMedia, a company that runs creditcardGenius, a credit card matchmaker that compares features of Canadian and American

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Pivot to COVID Test Boosts LuminUltra

For a Fredericton life sciences company dating back more than two decades, the pandemic has offered an opportunity to reinvigorate its business and venture into the lucrative world of diagnostic medical testing.

LuminUltra was already an innovation success story. Since its founding in 2003, based on technology that had been in development since 1995, LuminUltra has carved out a market for itself

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IMV Tests Drug with Breast Cancer

Dartmouth-based drug discovery company IMV has announced that its lead compound, known as maveropepimut-S, will be trialed in patients with hormone receptor positive/HER2-negative breast cancer.

In a statement, the company said these tumors represent an unmet clinical need with relatively poor responses to preliminary hormonal treatment. The investigator-initiated clinical study will be

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Tenera Raises $750,000, Bags ACOA Loan

After a short, pandemic-induced halt to its activities last spring, Halifax senior-monitoring startup Tenera Care is ramping up its expansion with the help of a new, remote installation procedure for its technology.

Tenera has closed or is in the process of closing deals with care homes in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Arkansas and the United Kingdom, after already adding monitoring for

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DMF Anesthesia Device Approved

Halifax-based DMF Medical has received a Class II medical device license from Health Canada to sell its memsorb carbon dioxide filtration device, which has been created to improve safety for patients undergoing general anesthesia.

The company said in a statement the product is now on sale across Canada for use on a range of anasthesia machines.  

Company President David Roach, and Chief Medical

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