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Innovacorp Seeks Accelerate Applicants

  • Jan 17, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Innovacorp, Nova Scotia’s venture capital Crown corporation, is looking for applicants for its five Innovacorp Accelerate streams: bluetech, healthtech, agtech, cleantech and software.

The participating companies, which must have sales of less than

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Supercluster Eyes Next Mandate

  • Jan 16, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

With Canada’s Ocean Supercluster set to have its first mandate expire in 14 months, CEO Kendra MacDonald said in an interview that the organization is in “active talks” with the federal government about extending its operations.

Tasked by the

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Job of the Week: Co-Founder at Practicare

  • Jan 16, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today features a job title we’ve never posted before: Co-Founder/Entrepreneur.

St. John’s-based Seafair Capital, a community investment company, is launching a new business called Practicare, a digital-first training

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Rising Demand at TME Program

  • Jan 13, 2022
  • Avery Mullen and Peter Moreira

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The story of how the four co-founders of Picketa Systems formed the AgTech company as their capstone project at UNB’s Faculty of Engineering makes for a pretty interesting tale. The fact that the team of four achieved this when

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Volta Redesigns Academy

  • Jan 12, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax startup hub Volta is switching from 12-week cohorts to a rolling enrolment model for its Academy training program for very early-stage founders.

The free course was previously held twice a year. Now, intake will be continuous and the

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Summer Institute Seeks Applicants

  • Jan 12, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management & Entrepreneurship is looking for applicants to its 13-week Summer Institute accelerator.

The Summer Institute teaches sales, marketing, and customer validation

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Frenter Closes $270K Raise

  • Jan 11, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

In the wake of a pivot, Halifax’s Frenter has raised $270,000 from a consortium of investors that includes John Risley’s CFFI Ventures, Mark Dobbins’s Killick Capital and several funds from outside Atlantic Canada.

The $270,000 close is part of a

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Ocean Supercluster Seeks Labour Proposals

  • Jan 11, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, the federally backed organization that cost-shares with the private sector on research and development initiatives, has put out a call for new project proposals.

In a press release, the Supercluster said the callout is

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Securicy Reveals $5.2M Raise

  • Jan 10, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Last summer, Cape Breton’s Securicy quietly raised its first round of institutional investment -- a US$4.1 million or C$5.2 million deal that was never publicized. As the 35-person company works to grow its staff to between 42 and 44, CEO Darren

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Clean Leadership Applications Open

  • Jan 10, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

A summer internship program that provides Nova Scotia youth and employers with opportunities to develop leadership in green companies is once again seeking applicant employers.

The Clean Leadership Summer Internship program matches employers with

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Reused Plastic and Recircle Merge

  • Jan 09, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Two Nova Scotia startups focused on recycling plastic waste into usable materials have merged. Antigonish's Recircle Waste Management Solutions and Halifax's Maritime Reused Plastic Products have amalgamated and will do business under the name

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Meta Faces Class Action Suit

  • Jan 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Six months after gaining unicorn status through a listing on the Nasdaq, Meta Materials Inc. is facing a class action lawsuit from disgruntled investors. 

Meta Materials, the Dartmouth maker of advanced materials that alter light, listed on the

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