Three BioPort Takeaways

When life sciences entrepreneurs and investors gathered at the Halifax Convention Centre for this year’s BioPort Atlantic conference, they received a day and a half of advice from senior players in the industry, including on managing risk, finding talent and doing business with healthcare organizations.

This year marked the 23rd BioPort conference, which is organized by industry group Life

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Myomar Launches Product

Three months after it won Health Canada approval for its urine test to monitor muscle health, Halifax-based Myomar Molecular is going to market in Nova Scotia, with a national launch and capital raise to follow.

In an interview Thursday, CEO Rafaela Andrade said the company has so far signed on with 20 distribution partners in Nova Scotia. The raise will go towards funding the national expansion

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Tracktile Wins Gerry Pond Award

Charlottetown-based Tracktile, which sells software for food and beverage manufacturers, has won this year's Gerry Pond Sales Award.

The Gerry Pond Award is an annual $25,000 cash prize awarded by virtual startup incubator Propel in honour of former NBTel CEO and Aliant Telecom President Gerry Pond, who went on to co-found Saint John-based Mariner Partners and Propel itself. Pond is a ferocious

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Eight Pitch at BioPort

When life sciences entrepreneurs and investors gathered in Halifax Wednesday for the first full day of this year’s BioPort conference, the agenda included two pitch sessions, one for pre-seed companies and one for seed-stage companies.

The pitches were moderated by George Kenney, a life sciences entrepreneur who co-founded Boston-based EntraTympanic.

The BioPort conference is now in its 23rd

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“Ridiculously Ambitious”: Deeptech Shines at Entrevestor Live

A common theme emerged in many of the startups featured at this year’s Entrevestor Live conference Tuesday: their business models are “ridiculously ambitious,” to quote Planetary Technologies CEO Mike Kelland.

He was describing his own company as much as anyone else’s. Planetary is developing technology to combat ocean acidification on a mass scale, and is one of two companies at this year’s

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Nine Startups Enter Propel Program

Propel, Atlantic Canada’s virtual tech accelerator, has named nine companies from across the region to its Fall 2024 Validation cohort, the first step of its programs for high-growth companies.

Validation focuses on validating the business idea with customers, using the lean startup methodology to find problem-solution fit. Generally, this course aims for companies that are making less than

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Proposify Readies Version 3

Halifax’s Proposify made a profit last year for the first time since 2018, with CEO Kyle Racki and his team now in “build mode” with a suite of updated product offerings.

In an interview Friday, Racki said a new version of his company’s software, currently in beta and stylized as Proposify 3, represents a dramatic rework of the platform. Proposify also released a public API, or application

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Thank You, Entrevestor Live Sponsors

Entrevestor Live, the celebration of the best of Atlantic Canadian innovation, is only a day away and this is your last chance to buy tickets.

As we remind everyone there are only a few left, we’d like to thank our sponsors. This event would not be possible without the support of organizations like Invest Nova Scotia, which has been a stalwart supporter of Entrevestor since our beginning 13

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Mike Cyr to Lead Charcoal

Newly minted Charcoal Marketing President Mike Cyr is stepping into the role in the wake of a significant transformation for both the company and its wider industry.

Cyr said in an interview this week that the world of marketing has, in recent years, experienced a sea change from projects with defined time horizons being typical to a paradigm in which organizations often keep marketing houses on

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