The University of New Brunswick’s student venture capital fund has made its first investment.

The Fraser Student Venture Fund is worth about $400,000, according to Faculty of Management Dean Devashis Mitra, with the money having been donated by alumnus and wealth manager Charles Fraser. It has invested $25,000 in geo-mapping startup 3D Planeta.

The fund is managed by New Brunswick Innovation

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We have a favour to ask of all startup support organizations in Atlantic Canada: Can you please ask companies that you work with to complete our survey.

Entrevestor and Pivotal Coaching are partnering to conduct the survey, which will show how the Covid-19 crisis is affecting staffing and revenues, and reveal CEOs’ sentiments in coping with the effects of the crisis.

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TotaliQ, a St. John’s IT company that allows businesses to share the expertise of their workforces, has launched a knowledge-sharing product to help organizations keep their employees safe during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Named safetyiQ, the product is a free, light version of the company’s enterprise expertise management platform. It has been designed with the goal of building a global

Five graduates of the Propel Incite accelerator have received $50,000 each in pre-seed funding from Innovacorp and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

The three organizations issued a statement last week saying Innovacorp and NBIF have sunk a total of $250,000 into the companies, two of which come from Newfoundland and Labrador.

Halifax-based Innovacorp and Fredericton-based NBIF said

Dartmouth-based Outcast Foods is partnering with Nova Scotia farms to mitigate the massive food waste due to COVID-19’s decimation of the food service industry. Outcast will turn fresh produce into dried fruit and vegetables so it does not go to waste.

Farms are facing an unprecedented situation with millions of pounds of product remaining unsold because of the collapse of the food service

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We are launching a one-week survey to quickly gain an understanding of how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting Atlantic Canadian startups and scaleups.

We're asking founders and CEOs to take two minutes to complete eight questions. Responses are anonymous as respondents are not asked to identify themselves.

Entrevestor and Pivotal Coaching are partnering to conduct this work,

The federal government has relaxed the criteria for its Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, or CEWS, but not enough to satisfy the organization representing Canadian innovators.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday said the government wants to make it easier for fast-growing companies to take advantage of the program.

He had announced two weeks ago that the government would provide a 75

Fundmetric, the Halifax software company that helps charities increase engagement with donors, is offering its “giving page” free to small charities across Canada to help them raise money during the pandemic.

The giving page is the online page that Fundmetric provides for charities so there’s a place where donors can go to make contributions, and it customizes messaging to resonate with the best

Forced to Focus, a webinar featuring brand and business strategist Peter Drummond, will take place Thursday, April 9th at 3:00 ADT.

Hosted by Natural Products Canada, the webinar will help entrepreneurs use this time to dig into their business and discover their competitive advantage so they can emerge from the current crisis stronger than before. Drummond highlights five questions entrepreneurs

Responding to the pandemic, several tech companies in Newfoundland and Labrador have joined forces and raised more than $200,000 to launch the Closed Door, Open Heart initiative.

The campaign encourages companies and individuals who are in a position to help to give generously so that communities can survive to open their doors together after Covid-19. 

The campaign began with a tech sector