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Alongside Raises $8M

  • Feb 15, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Two months after it inked a deal to acquire job board CareerBeacon, Moncton’s Alongside has closed an $8 million funding round, comprising 40 percent equity funding and the remainder a loan from TD Canada Trust.

Chief Executive Yves Boudreau said

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Early Career Ocean Professionals Sought

  • Feb 14, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

ECOP Canada is asking people who have recently embarked on careers in the ocean sector to fill out a survey so the group can better understand and meet the international and national needs of early career ocean professionals -- which it calls ECOPs

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New IT Training Programs Coming

  • Feb 14, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

The University of New Brunswick has partnered with the McKenna Institute and TechImpact to launch a new initiative that aims to address the tech industry’s labour shortage in New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada.

The three parties will hold a series

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Digital NS Program Aims for Diversity

  • Feb 14, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

Digital Nova Scotia is seeking applications for the second cohort of its Get into IT program, which aims to help 148 participants from under-represented communities launch a technical career.

The association for IT industries expects to graduate 62

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GIT, QualiTEAS in Singapore Accelerator

  • Feb 13, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Two Atlantic Canadian oceantech companies – Graphite Innovation and Technology, or GIT, of Dartmouth and QualiTEAS of St. John’s – have joined the Eastern Pacific Accelerator in Singapore and received funding from the program.

Eastern Pacific

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BDC Capital Launches Diversity Template

  • Feb 13, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

A standardized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Reporting Template for general partners of venture capital funds and their portfolios has been launched by BDC Capital, the investment arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada.

The tool is

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Potential Motors Raises $4.1M

  • Feb 11, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton electric vehicle startup Potential Motors has raised US$3.2 million or C$4.07 million from investors that include Montreal- and Toronto-based Brightspark Ventures and Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures.

Founded in 2018 by a team of

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Ng Eyes Governance Reform

  • Feb 10, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Sally Ng, Chief Operating Officer for newly created BIPOC industry group Tribe Network, has been nominated for the Women of the Year award from Ryerson University startup incubator the DMZ.

New this year, the award will honour International Women's

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Tomblin Murphy Heads NSHA Innovation Hub

  • Feb 09, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Nova Scotia Health Authority is launching its new Innovation Hub, which has a mandate to partner with the private sector on technology and research initiatives and is helmed by former Dalhousie University professor Gail Tomblin Murphy.

Tomblin

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A $65M Marine Biofuel Project

  • Feb 08, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

A consortium of companies – some backed by billionaire John Risley – has unveiled a $65 million project that aims to produce low-carbon marine fuel made out of waste from forestry and agriculture.

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Tuesday announced

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SDTC Backs 4 Atlantic Startups

  • Feb 08, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The federal government’s Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC, has announced that it will give $52.3 million in grants to a slate of companies whose technology could help the country meet its climate goals, with Atlantic startups

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KorrAI In Y Combinator, Raising Funds

  • Feb 07, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax’s KorrAI, which uses artificial intelligence to help assess satellite images of mining sites, has joined the latest cohort of Y Combinator, arguably the world’s most prestigious tech accelerator.

The AI company joined the accelerator’s

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