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Clever Fruit Joins Emergence

  • Feb 07, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Truro’s Clever Fruit Products, which is developing new berry-based food ingredients, has landed a spot in Emergence, the Atlantic Canadian bioscience incubator.

Founded in 2017 and led by President Liam Tayler and Executive Chairman Sean Sears,

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Supercluster Unveils $29M in Projects

  • Feb 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a basket of five projects worth a combined $29 million, of which the Supercluster will pay $12.52 million, with the participating companies spread across Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia.

CEO

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How Tranquility Exited to Green Shield

  • Feb 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

When health insurance giant Green Shield Canada bought virtual therapy startup Tranquility Online in August, the players stayed mum on the specifics of the deal. But at an event Thursday, Tranquility Co-Founder Joel Muise told the story of the

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Passiv Joins Y Combinator

  • Feb 03, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

In the past year, Fredericton fintech specialist Passiv has raised an $800,000 funding round, grown its assets under management to nearly $2 billion and been accepted into the globally recognized Y Combinator startup accelerator.

Passiv has

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Stemble Wins Gerry Pond Award

  • Feb 03, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Jason Pearson, Co-Founder of Charlottetown edtech startup Stemble, has won Propel’s 2022 Gerry Pond Sales Award, which comes with a $25,000 cash prize.

Stemble is developing e-learning software for post-secondary applications, particularly in the

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Dispension Launches in Philly

  • Feb 03, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Dartmouth’s Dispension Industries, which makes smart kiosks for dispensing pharmaceutical products and controlled substances, has installed two automated Narcan-dispensing kiosks in Philadelphia with plans to add eight more in the coming months.

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Concrete Ventures Books 2nd Exit

  • Feb 02, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Three years after it began investing in startups, Halifax’s Concrete Ventures has booked its second exit. Whitehorse-based Proof, which specialized in automating government processes, has been bought by Toronto’s Daylight.

Daylight Co-Founder and

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SMU Wins Two Silvers at VCIC

  • Feb 01, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Two teams of students from the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University have placed second in Boston University’s edition of the international Venture Capital Investment Competition.

In claiming two silver medals, the graduate and

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L2M Cohort Focuses on Women Researchers

  • Feb 01, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Dalhousie University’s latest Lab2Market cohort has a new objective: supporting women in research.

Announced Tuesday, the new cohort includes 11 graduate and post-graduate level women researchers from five Canadian universities, mostly in Atlantic

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Sandpiper Invests in Begin AI

  • Jan 31, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Sandpiper Ventures has joined a US$1 million (C$1.27 million) funding round recently closed by Begin AI, whose software helps to personalize applications for consumers without needing expensive artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Sandpiper, an

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Ignite, CEED Seek Amplify Applicants

  • Jan 31, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Rural innovation hub Ignite has partnered with the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development to host a virtual accelerator, Amplify, for startups across Nova Scotia.

The accelerator -- which is now open for application -- will include

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Analysis: Cognizant Jobs

  • Jan 30, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Though a foreign company's plan to hire more than 1,000 people in a tight job market may worry other employers, the arrival of tech consulting company Cognizant in Nova Scotia could represent a net benefit for startups, observers have said.

Martha

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