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Boundless Discovery Signs Multi-Year Deal

  • Jan 20, 2025
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Site 20/20, WeyMedia Made Deloitte Fast 50 in 2024

  • Jan 06, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

We’d like to start 2025 with a piece of news we missed late last year: Site 20/20 of Dartmouth and WeyMedia of Dieppe, N.B., were both named to Deloitte’s prestigious Technology Fast 50 list of Canada’s fastest-growing startups.

Site 20/20 placed

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Balendra Makes Forbes’ 30 Under 30

  • Jan 05, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Nivatha Balendra, founder and CEO of Laval, Quebec-based Dispersa, has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2025 in the Science category.  

Cleantech startup Dispersa runs its Sydney operation out of the industrial bioprocessing facility

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Launching our Latest Startup Survey

  • Jan 05, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

We’re calling on all startups to complete our latest quick-and-confidential Atlantic Canadian startup survey, which is the backbone of our coming 2024 Entrevestor Atlantic Canada Startup Data report.

The startup report provides a benchmark used by

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Happy Holidays to all our Readers.

  • Dec 24, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

We'd like to wish all our readers a happy holidays, and to say we hope you thrive in the new year. 

We’re putting down the phones and shutting down the laptops for a few days, as we do every year at this time. We will begin reporting news again on

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BreatheSuite Launches $1.8M AI project

  • Dec 19, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

St. John's-based medtech startup BreatheSuite, which helps people with respiratory problems, is working on a $1.77 million project to use artificial intelligence to operate more efficiently.

The Newfoundland and Labrador government put out a press

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Cartmill Retiring from LED Roadway Lighting

  • Dec 15, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based LED Roadway Lighting, a maker of innovative streetlights, has announced that founder Chuck Cartmill will step down as CEO on January 1.

LED Roadway Lighting began as a business Cartmill founded in Amherst, Nova Scotia in 2002,

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Francis To Retire from PEI BioAlliance

  • Dec 12, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

PEI BioAlliance is seeking a new CEO after long-time leader Rory Francis announced his retirement.

Founded in 2005, the PEI BioAlliance supports a bioscience cluster on the island of more than 60 companies with an annual combined revenue of over

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NACO Report Shows Drop in Angel Funding

  • Dec 11, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Angel investment in Canada fell dramatically in 2023 for the second straight year, threatening the country’s economic vitality, says a new report from the National Angel Capital Organization, or NACO. The report also found angel investment falling

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Anessa’s Awards Backed by Revenue Growth

  • Dec 10, 2024
  • Peter Moreira
Sponsored Content

When the New Brunswick innovation community celebrated its annual InnovateNB awards recently, there was only one company that took home multiple awards – Fredericton-based Anessa.

The company’s Chief Technology Officer and

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Propel Hires Tech Industry Coaches

  • Dec 10, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Regional virtual accelerator Propel has announced the addition of two notable tech leaders to their coaching team: Rachel Cox of Halifax and Steph Burry of St. John’s.

Propel offers programming and coaching for pre-revenue and revenue-generating

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Bezanson Joins Life Sciences Nova Scotia

  • Dec 06, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Life Sciences Nova Scotia has appointed Krista Bezanson, a seasoned leader in economic development and business growth, as VP Business Development and Strategy.

Bezanson will be taking a leave of absence from her position with the Atlantic Canada

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Fall 2024 Evolution Pitch Winners Announced

  • Dec 05, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Participants in the Evolution accelerator run by St. John’s innovation hub Genesis have marked their graduation with a prize-allocating pitching session.

Evolution is Genesis’ pre-incubator, a 10-week program designed for early-stage technology

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