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Millennia Tea Signs with Whole Foods
Millennia Tea, the Saint John maker of frozen tea products, has inked a national distribution deal with U.S. health food giant Whole Foods.
The company sells edible, frozen tea in three forms: loose-leaf, chopped and cubed. CEO Tracy Bell said in a
Food for Thought Eyes $1M Raise
Growing out of the crisis of the pandemic, Halifax-based Food for Thought Software Solutions, a company that provides stigma-free school meals to kids in need, is preparing to raise funds to boost growth both nationally and internationally.
Started
Upfront Inks Whole Foods Deal
Upfront Cosmetics, the Nackawic, NB-based maker of eco-friendly baby shampoo, now sells its soap in close to 275 stores and has inked a 14-store deal with health food giant Whole Foods.
Launched in 2019 by Founder Alicia Sharp, Upfront was inspired
Sona Nano Ends COVID Trials
Sona Nanotech shares fell 68 percent on Friday after the Halifax life sciences company announced it had ended the clinical trials of its saliva-based rapid test for COVID-19 due to disappointing results.
The company had been conducting trials at
Bluenotes: BlueSwell, PORT Launched
Boston-based oceans accelerator SeaAhead and the New England Aquarium have announced the launch of the BlueSwell Incubator Program, New England’s first early-stage bluetech incubator.
BlueSwell is designed to support the creation and growth of
Venn, UdeM Focus on Students
Venn Innovation and Université de Moncton (Campus Shippagan or UMCS) are working together to boost entrepreneurship within the province's student community.
Their new partnership will see increased collaboration between Venn Garage, which is Venn
Supercluster Projects Focus on AR, VR
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Thursday announced four new research projects worth $3.5 million, with a special focus on the use of mixed-reality technologies like augmented reality, or AR, and virtual reality.
The Atlantic Canada-based group,
Two Companies Win $25k from NBIF
The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s Breakthru-Newcomer startup competition has announced two winners of $25,000 each.
The two companies, HomeSchoolToGo and Brain Tumor Segmentation, beat out 34 other ventures. HomeSchoolToGo won in the
Cooper Joins Volta as CIO
When Matt Cooper first discovered startup incubator Volta in the middle of the last decade, it was not as the leader of a prospective resident company, but as a service provider.
Cooper was a co-founder of Swept – which was then a cleaning company
Ocean Supercluster’s Ecosystem Index
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has launched a joint project with MIT Technology Review Insights, the university publication’s customer research and content arm, to create an index ranking the ocean-tech ecosystems in 60 countries.
The index, called
Dal Names Second R2L Cohort
Dalhousie University has announced the second cohort of its Ready2Launch summer accelerator, which comprises 12 teams from universities across Atlantic Canada.
Known as R2L, the three-month program is designed for teams that are committed to
Green Power Readies Joint Project
Dartmouth’s Green Power Labs, which makes predictive analytics software for electrical grids and solar power plants, is launching a joint project with Calgary- and Houston-based MR Control Systems International.
Founded in 2004, Green Power’s