CarbonCure’s Wagner Joins Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Jennifer Wager, formerly the president of Dartmouth cleantech star CarbonCure Technologies, has a new role as a fellow at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a VC firm led by such business titans as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg.

Wagner, who lives in P.E.I., is tasked with offering support and guidance to startups working on cleantech for sectors with emissions that are particularly

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Tribe Network Seeks Applicants

Halifax-based Tribe Network is inviting Black founders aiming to bring a basic product to market to apply to its BUILD program, which begins mid-March.

Founded in 2021 by social entrepreneur Alfred Burgesson, Tribe offers support and training services for Black-owned companies. One of its initiatives is the Black Start-Up Project, which aims to foster Black founders through such programs as

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Cleantech Accelerator Coming to East Coast

Halifax business consultancy Imaginal Ventures and British Columbia-based national cleantech accelerator Foresight Canada are collaborating to launch Foresight’s eight-month accelerator program in the Atlantic Provinces.

Participating companies in the Atlantic Canada Cleantech Scale-up and Investment Challenge will compete for the chance to be one of five to pitch to a mix of accredited and

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Canadian Bluetech at Oceanology International Conference

Canada has sent a deep roster of oceantech industry members and ecosystem support players to this year's Oceanology International Americas conference in San Diego, which is underway this week.

Twenty Canadian exhibitors — many of them startups, and all but one from either British Columbia or Atlantic Canada — are attending, along with a roster of ecosystem delegates from organizations like

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CandidateHub Readies Healthcare Push

Riverview, N.B. recruitment automation startup CandidateHub.io is eyeing sales to private healthcare facilities in the United States after receiving $50,000 from Kaleidoscope Social Impact, a Saint John-based social impact investor that offers loans and training programs to entrepreneurs.

CandidateHub CEO Brad DiPaolo said in an interview that his company is aiming to help private hospital

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Doris Grant Named BioNova VP

Nova Scotia industry group BioNova has appointed Doris Grant, formerly a high-ranking Nova Scotia Health Authority civil servant, as its vice president of business development and strategy.

At the NSHA, Grant was senior director of innovation, overseeing the Health Innovation Hub that often collaborates with healthtech and biotech startups. Before that, she spent more than 14 years running

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