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Spark Stays Digital

  • Aug 08, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

The annual Spark Nova Scotia startup competition, which offers winners up to $50,000 of non-dilutive funding, will hold its training seminars online again this year and has moved the registration deadline to August 30.

Entrepreneurs will still be

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Jobs: Communications Opening at Dal

  • Aug 08, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

In our Job of the Week column today, we’re showcasing an opening posted by Dalhousie University for a Communications Manager for its Founders Skills Initiative, part of the I-INC program.

The Founders Skills Initiative is developing evidence-based

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META Buys Hologram Company

  • Aug 05, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

META, the Dartmouth-based advanced materials startup that in June became Atlantic Canada’s first publicly traded unicorn thanks to a reverse listing on the NASDAQ, will buy British Columbia’s Nanotech Security Corp. in a $90.8 million, all-cash

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Introhive’s Joint Project with BC Consulting Firm

  • Aug 05, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton- and Miami-based sales software startup Introhive said Thursday it has inked a deal with British Columbian consulting firm Traction on Demand to help identify gaps in companies’ sales data.

Under the deal, Introhive and Traction on

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IMV Chief Executive Bows Out

  • Aug 04, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Dartmouth drug discovery company IMV is replacing its CEO.

Former Chief Executive Frederic Ors stepped down Wednesday, with Chief Business Officer Andrew Hall slated to serve as interim CEO until the Board of Directors hires a permanent replacement

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Planet Hatch Presents Newcomer Startups

  • Aug 04, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch has announced the 12 companies participating in its inaugural Newcomer Startup Accelerator, which targets international students and other new arrivals to Canada.

The accelerator will run until Aug. 26

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Deacon Says ‘Privatize Innovacorp’

  • Aug 04, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Colin Deacon, the Halifax startup founder turned senator, says Nova Scotia should privatize its venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp and instead become a limited partner in a basket of private-sector VC funds.

Deacon co-founded BlueLight

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Aeolus Wins Pitch & Pick

  • Aug 03, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Aeolus, the Newfoundland and Labrador-based maker of portable ventilators, has won startup hub Genesis’s Pitch & Pick competition, as well as the event’s Community Choice Award for its coronavirus-inspired technology.

The company is building a

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Commercializing Cognitive Testing

  • Aug 03, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

For most of academia, the pandemic has been a trial by fire, as researchers grappled with the question of how to do science without ready access to labs. Last spring, Katie McKearney was no exception.

A master’s candidate and psychology

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Parados Readies Beta Test

  • Aug 03, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton’s Parados Cerebral Solutions is preparing for a beta test of its data analytics platform for tracking and preventing head injuries in sports, likely beginning in the fall.

Founded in 2020, Parados is using sensors in mouthguards and

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Kraken Closes $10 Million Raise

  • Jul 27, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

St. John's-based Kraken Robotics said Monday it has closed a deal, announced last week, to raise $10 million from a consortium of investment bankers, who will then have the option to sell their stock on the TSX Venture exchange.

The $10 million

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VC Check-In: Innovacorp Eyes Self-Funding

  • Jul 26, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Nova Scotia venture capital agency Innovacorp's portfolio is performing so well that the provincial Crown corporation is hoping to self-finance its operations going forward without government support, according to Vice-President of Investment Andrew

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