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Site 20/20, WeyMedia Made Deloitte Fast 50 in 2024
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
Balendra Makes Forbes’ 30 Under 30
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
Launching our Latest Startup Survey
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
Happy Holidays to all our Readers.
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
BreatheSuite Launches $1.8M AI project
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
Cartmill Retiring from LED Roadway Lighting
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,
Francis To Retire from PEI BioAlliance
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
NACO Report Shows Drop in Angel Funding
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
Anessa’s Awards Backed by Revenue Growth
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
Propel Hires Tech Industry Coaches
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
Bezanson Joins Life Sciences Nova Scotia
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
Fall 2024 Evolution Pitch Winners Announced
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