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Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund Opens

  • May 31, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

The Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund is now open to applicants, and will provide loans up to $250,000 to Black business owners and entrepreneurs across the country.

On Monday, the federal government said Black business owners and entrepreneurs face

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IGNITE Readies Investment Platform

  • May 31, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

With funding for many small-town startups languishing in the doldrums, rural innovation hub IGNITE is testing a new platform to match companies with investors, in hopes of making more capital available to entrepreneurs.

Talenca is being developed

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Dear Life Aims to Modernize Mourning

  • May 30, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

The funeral industry ranks among the most staid bastions of the traditional economy, with practices that have changed little in centuries. To one Halifax startup, it looks ripe for disruption.

Dear Life’s goal is to move the process of

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ONSIDE Forms Regional Teams

  • May 30, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

ONSIDE, the Nova Scotian organization that works to develop the startup ecosystem, has established five regional groups to bring the teachings of the MIT REAP program to communities across Nova Scotia.

MIT REAP is the Massachusetts Institute of

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Sandpiper Backs DeNova

  • May 27, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Sandpiper Ventures, Atlantic Canada’s female-led investment fund, announced Thursday it has made its first investment -- in Halifax-based DeNova.

The early-stage venture capital fund, which is managed by women and targets female-led companies, is

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Commercializing Fertilizer Research

  • May 27, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

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For Dalhousie PhD student Raphael Ofoe, participating in Dal Innovate’s Lab2Market program was not just a path to creating a viable business, it was a way to accelerate his work on solving one of the most pressing challenges

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MUN Project To Aid Startups

  • May 27, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Memorial University of Newfoundland has launched a pilot project that will help graduate commerce students work with startups on business development.

The Supporting the Local Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem project has a budget of

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Rally Inks Deal with Cox & Palmer

  • May 26, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Having already signed on about 40 American law firms as clients, legal software maker Rally has inked a deal with the Atlantic Canadian law firm Cox & Palmer to help provide legal services to the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

Based in St.

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Eight Join Scale-Up Hub: Atlanta

  • May 26, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Eight companies have been named to Scale-Up Hub: Atlanta, a new program that helps high-growth Atlantic Canadian companies increase their sales in the U.S. Southeast.

In the Scale-Up Hub program, which began in 2018 in Cambridge, Mass., Atlantic

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Linking CarbonCure to Lindbergh

  • May 26, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The Halifax Innovation District has posted a new feature on CarbonCure Technologies, which compares the Halifax cleantech company’s recent Carbon XPRIZE win with Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Penned by Entrevestor Reporter

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Region Raised $35M in VC in Q1

  • May 25, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canadian companies secured a better-than-average $35 million in venture capital funding in the first quarter of 2021, and continued to attract private equity financing, said the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association on

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Halifax Innovation Outpost Backs Harbr, Tranqility

  • May 25, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

The Halifax Innovation Outpost, a joint project between the city and the Halifax Partnership think-tank, has announced that it will back construction fintech startup Harbr and mental health app Tranquility in a bid to help the two companies scale

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