Cross-border business development accelerator Scale-up Hub: Atlanta, has announced its nine-company winter cohort.
The group includes five companies from New Brunswick, two from Nova Scotia and one from Prince Edward Island, as well as one headquartered simultaneously in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Atlantic Trade and Investment Growth Strategy — a joint initiative between the federal government and the four Atlantic provinces that plans to spend $20 million by 2027 — is the main funder for Scale-up Hub: Atlanta. Opportunities New Brunswick and Invest Nova Scotia jointly steward the program.
Originally created in 2018 by Nova Scotia Business Inc., the Scale-up Hub accelerator encourages Atlantic Canadian companies to commit to spending extended periods in a major city with the aim of gaining clients and developing a regional network.
It includes 10 months of services from an American business development professional to help founders make local connections, as well as office space in Atlanta, and costs C$2,300. This cohort will run from this month until October.
A previous iteration of the Scale-up Hub program based in Boston focused primarily on business development. At the prompting of Scale-up Hub advisor Steve Nicolle — a founding partner at PEI-based, early-stage venture capital fund Island Capital Partners — the Atlanta version of the accelerator now also aims to help entrepreneurs connect with potential American funders.
Here’s a look at the cohort members:
St. John's and Halifax
Nevin Pick, President
A sister company to software business Mobia Technology Innovations, MOBIA Health sells software for cardiologists, ER doctors and medical offices for triage and scheduling. Invest Nova Scotia describes Mobia as based in St. John's and headquartered in Nova Scotia.
Fredericton
Yan Simard, CEO
Kognitiv Spark uses augmented reality and mixed reality to help remote workers use complicated equipment. If a worker needs instructions or to perform repairs, a supervisor in a main office can use augmented reality to guide their activities.
Fredericton
Mark McAllister, CEO
Vero Source sells SaaS software and data management products to public and private clients in the digital healthcare space.
Charlottetown
Jason Pearson, CEO
Stemble is developing e-learning software for post-secondary applications, particularly in the STEM fields, which includes “virtual laboratory” functionality with more depth than is offered by other companies in the space.
Halifax
Kevin Ansems, Co-Founder
Union.dev sells pension-management software that automates much of the work that unions have historically completed manually, such as record-keeping and payouts.
Saint John
Daniella DeGrace, CEO
ProcedureFlow makes knowledge-sharing software for employers that allows users to post information about processes and procedures in the form of visual guides, such as flow charts.
Moncton
Jennifer Leger, Co-Founder
QUBER is a platform that lets employers offer their staff no-fee emergency savings accounts and other incentives to save money.
Sydney, NS
Mike Deleo, CEO
Talem sells software that combines artificial intelligence, clinical expertise and forensic science to help insurance companies predict claim costs earlier, more accurately and more efficiently.
Moncton, NB
Dr. Slyvain Mailhot, CEO
MedCockPit is a software suite for pathology labs to manage their workflows.
