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Planet Hatch Newcomer Pitch Competition This Friday
Fredericton entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch will hold its first Newcomer and International Student pitch competition, which has a total prize purse worth $10,000 on Friday.
Scheduled for Aug. 26, the competition will include two streams: an idea
Maritime Launch Finalizes Land Lease
Maritime Launch Services has finalized the Crown land lease for its planned spaceport near Canso, Nova Scotia, paving the way for an inaugural rocket launch next year.
The lease is for 334.5 acres near the Chedabucto Bay and will last 20 years,
Modest Tree Inks Space Force Deal
Modest Tree, a Halifax-based maker of extended-reality software, has won a contract with the United States Space Force, the extra-planetary branch of the country’s armed forces.
The company earned the deal by participating in the Space Force’s
Ocean Supercluster Funds Wind Mapping
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a $1.8 million project led by Halifax-based SailTimer to produce crowd-sourced weather reporting both for and from sailboats.
SailTimer, helmed by President Craig Summers, is currently accepting pre-orders
Atlantic Canadian VC Strong Despite National Headwinds
The first half of 2022 was a strong period for Atlantic Canadian venture capital deals, buttressed by nearly record-breaking fundraising activity from Nova Scotia, according to data released Thursday by the Canadian Venture Capital and Private
Seagrave to Head National Bio Group
BioNB CEO Meaghan Seagrave is leaving the New Brunswick organization to head up Bioindustrial Innovation Canada and its affiliated Sustainable Chemistry Alliance, which invests in early-stage life sciences companies.
Seagrave, who holds a master’s
BUILD Applications Open
Dalhousie University’s Emera ideaHUB incubator has opened applications for this year’s BUILD accelerator — a 10-month program meant to help deep tech startups develop and manufacture their products.
Companies in the program will have access to
Potential’s First EV To Be Off-Road Camper
Fredericton-based Potential Motors’ electric vehicle will be an off-road camper van that uses the company’s vehicle control software to identify and adapt to changes in terrain.
Chief Executive Sam Poirier said in March the vehicle will be a
Ed Martin Named Director of MCE
Ed Martin, former CEO at St. John’s-based edtech startup Zorbit’s Math, has been appointed Director of the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship at Memorial University.
As director of the MCE, Martin will lead an organization that has worked with
Four Atlantic Companies Receive SDTC Funding
The federal government’s Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC, has announced grants for four Atlantic Canadian startups: Hampstead, N.B.’s PLAEX Building Systems, and Halifax-based ZeroIN Foods, Drinkable Water Solutions and OceanSync
Propel Names Traction and Growth Grads
Atlantic Canada's IT accelerator Propel has announced seven graduate companies from the latest cohort of its Traction and Growth program.
The Traction and Growth program is meant for startups that have already completed Propel’s more basic Vision
Virtual Hallway Books 500 Consults for NS Doctors
Virtual Hallway has helped doctors to schedule more than 500 meetings with specialists through a pilot program with Nova Scotia Health’s Innovation Hub since the end of May.
The six-month program will evaluate whether the province should partner