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Mara Raises US$9.1M from S2G

  • Jul 30, 2025
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Life Sciences, Medtech Showed Resilience in 2024

  • Jul 29, 2025
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Weevva Accepted into IFH Lab

  • Jul 28, 2025

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Mara Raises US$9.1M from S2G

  • Jul 30, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Mara Renewables, the Halifax company that produces omega-3 products from algae, has raised US$9.1 million (C$12.6 million) from S2G Investments to expand its production, sales and R&D capacity.

The company issued a press release last week

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Life Sciences, Medtech Showed Resilience in 2024

  • Jul 29, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canada’s life sciences and medtech sectors demonstrated resilience in 2024 with notable revenue growth, though equity funding for life sciences companies has fallen in recent years.

Today we’re highlighting the section of our 2024 Atlantic

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Weevva Accepted into IFH Lab

  • Jul 28, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Weevva, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup that helps landlords and tenants manage rentals with confidence, has been accepted into the 2025 cohort of the Innovate Financial Health Lab.

The IFH Lab is a national accelerator that supports startups

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Dispersa Says Expansion is Under Way

  • Jul 27, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Dispersa, a Laval, Que.-based cleantech company with a development team in Sydney, has posted that it is proceeding with expansion plans after closing a $5.8 million funding round earlier in the year.

Dispersa is developing “biosurfactants” derived

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Aruna Revolution Wins Big at StartupFest

  • Jul 23, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based Aruna Revolution, a women-led company that makes compostable sanitary products from plants, has won the $100,000 Impact Investment Prize at Startupfest 2025.

In Montreal last week, the well-known event that brings together

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Evolve Seeks Tech Founders

  • Jul 23, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

St. John’s-based innovation hub Genesis is seeking founders to participate in Evolve, a six-week program for early-stage tech founders. Entrepreneurs can join virtually or in person and will be helped to: 

* Clearly define the problem the startup

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7 Startups Join Scale-up Cambridge Phase Two

  • Jul 22, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Bounce Health Innovation, the Newfoundland and Labrador life sciences and medtech organization, has named seven companies that have graduated to Phase Two of the Scale-Up Cambridge program.

The program is designed to help leading Atlantic Canadian

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ASETS-CA Closes Funding Round

  • Jul 21, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based ASETS-CA Inc. has closed a funding round from strategic investors, and plans to use the money to enhance its engineering design software and increase sales.

The company, whose technology improves workflow for people involved in 3D

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MULLI Wins MTME Event at UNB

  • Jul 20, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Last week’s MTME pitching event at University of New Brunswick was won by golf swing solutions company MULLI. DeepREM, a company developing a sleep solution, placed second. The new ventures won $1,500 and $1,000 respectively.

The winners were among

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New Fund in Pond’s Name To Foster Sales Skills

  • Jul 17, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Led by the McKenna Institute and Mariner Partners, an effort is under way to raise $250,000 to $500,000 to endow the Gerry Pond Professional Sales and Business Development Experiential Learning Fund.

It’s intended the endowment will uphold the

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Frontier Inks Deal with Halifax’s pHathom

  • Jul 16, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based carbon capture venture pHathom Technologies has struck a deal with Frontier to remove 510 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere using the startup’s technology.

Frontier works with some of the world’s largest companies to encourage the

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Shoelace Learning Named a Top 30 EdTech Startup

  • Jul 15, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based edtech venture Shoelace Learning has been named one of the Top 30 Startups globally in the inaugural Global EdTech Prize and will now enter the finals.

In a post on LinkedIn, CEO Julia Rivard Dexter said Shoelace is the only Canadian

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