Mulli Swing Wins UNB Pitch Competition

Mulli Swing Solutions, which helps golfers improve their swings, captured the top prize in the Growth Category last week at the University of New Brunswick’s RBC Student Pitch Competition.

The Fredericton-based company has developed sensors that attach to the grip of a golf club, producing data that helps golfers and their coaches analyse the player’s grip and swing. Its co-founders are Brycen

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New Bio Facility To Open in Dartmouth

Backed by a $5 million federal grant, a new 51,000-square-foot bioinnovation hub is opening in Dartmouth to offer badly needed lab and bio-manufacturing facilities to a range of customers.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency last week issued a press release unveiling the grant to Neptune BioInnovation Inc., a new non-profit that will oversea the facility. Neptune will take over an existing

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AgroGene wins $50K Investment from NBIF

Breakthru is returning to New Brunswick.

As it awarded a $50,000 investment at the Breakthru Accelerating Cleantech pitching event on Tuesday, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation unveiled its plans to resurrect the Breakthru brand, whose name was once given to its flagship competition.

The pitching competition winner, which received a $50,000 investment from NBIF, was AgroGene Solutions,

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CoLab Secures $5.6M for AI Project

St. John’s-based CoLab Software has received $5.6 million in funding from two offshore oil projects to help develop its new artificial intelligence and machine learning tool.

The company, whose software supports collaborative 3D design and review, held an event in St. John’s on Wednesday to announce the funding from the Hibernia and Hebron Projects. This cash infusion will fund about 60,000

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Dragons’ Den Coming to Planet Hatch

Fredericton entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch is hosting Dragons’ Den and inviting founders to apply to pitch.  

Dragons’ Den is a running popular show on CBC where founders pitch their businesses to seasoned entrepreneurs and investors in the hope of winning funds, mentorship and connections.

Dragons’ Den producers are hosting in-person auditions in select cities for the next season of the

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Picketa Adds Canola to its LENS Platform

Fredericton agtech company Picketa Systems has announced the addition of canola to its LENS (Leaf Evaluated Nutrient System) platform. Building on past success with potatoes and corn, Picketa is expanding its support of staple broadacre crops to meet the nutrient management needs of North America’s canola growers, the company said in a press release.

Due to variable field conditions, suboptimal

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