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Passiv Buys Wealthly

  • Jul 23, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton-based Passiv, which last year closed a US$2.2 million or roughly C$3 million seed round following its graduation from the prestigious Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, has bought Bellevue, Washington startup Wealthly for an

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Marc St-Onge Talks Smallfood

  • Jul 23, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based Smallfood, one of the stars of the East Coast foodtech scene, is raising a Series A funding round and preparing to open a new plant in Dartmouth that CEO Marc St-Onge expects to generate the company’s first commercial revenue.

He said

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3D BioFibR Raises $3.5M

  • Jul 20, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Less than a month after the launch of its first two products, Halifax life sciences startup 3D BioFibR has closed an equity-and-debt  seed round worth just over $3.52 million.

Chief Executive Kevin Sullivan said in an interview that the money will

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C-Therm Targeting EV Market

  • Jul 20, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton-based C-Therm Technologies, which has developed a range of tools for testing materials’ thermal conductivity, plans to expand its offerings with a suite of new products suitable for use in electric vehicle production.

The move comes

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NS To Provide $8.5M to COVE

  • Jul 20, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

The Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE, has received a pledge of $8.5 million in funding from the Nova Scotia government to continue its programming over the next five years.

Economic Development Minister Susan Corkum-Greek

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MIMOSA Raises Capital, Launches in US

  • Jul 20, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

MIMOSA Diagnostics, the Halifax- and Toronto-based maker of a medical device for non-invasively assessing tissue health, has raised an undisclosed funding round as it launches in its beachhead market, the United States.

The raise took the form of a

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Mysa Launches in EU

  • Jul 19, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based Mysa Smart Thermostats is launching sales of its products in the European Union amid a broader push to expand and diversity its business.

The announcement comes just two months after Mysa said it had bought the intellectual

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NB Cyber Cluster Reflects on IBM Job Losses

  • Jul 18, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

The Fredericton cybersecurity community has been shaken this summer by more than 100 layoffs at IBM, though officials in the sector believe it is strong enough to withstand the blow.

The Fredericton Gleaner first reported earlier this month that

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Volta Seeks Bluetech Companies to Pitch

  • Jul 18, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to pitch at its Virtual Ocean Tech Pitch Competition on Aug. 23.

The competition will see bluetech founders deliver short pitches and then receive feedback from a panel of of industry experts. The

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CDL Oceans Deadline Approaches

  • Jul 17, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Dalhousie University’s CDL Atlantic, part of the internationally noted Creative Destruction Lab network of startup accelerators, is still looking for this fall’s Oceans cohort. The deadline to apply is July 28, with programming beginning in October.

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Kognitiv Spark Joins Amazon Defence Accelerator

  • Jul 17, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton-based augmented reality startup Kognitiv Spark is one of 13 companies selected for this year’s cohort of Amazon’s European Defence Accelerator.

Kognitiv Spark is the only Canadian company to make the cut and one of only three from North

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Invest NS Announces Early Stage Commercialization Fund

  • Jul 16, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Invest Nova Scotia has announced the latest recipients of money from its Early Stage Commercialization Fund for university research, rolling over a program from the days of Innovacorp. Also bundled with the announcement are recipients from fall

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