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Picomole Aiming for 2024 Launch
With a major funding round in its sights this year, Moncton-based medtech company Picomole is aiming to have a product on the market in 2024 that can detect lung cancer from a single breath sample.
The technology has been in development for about a
Six Named to Energia Cohort
Fredericton-based Energia Ventures, the accelerator for energy, cleantech, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence companies, has named six startups to its Spring 2021 cohort.
The accelerator, which is operated by the University of New Brunswick
CAN Health Moves into Region
A network of public health organizations created to support Canadian medtech businesses is expanding into the Atlantic provinces, with an eye towards giving local startups an edge on their American competitors.
The CAN Health Network organizes
Jobs: Director of Quality at Protocase
Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Director of Quality at Protocase in Sydney.
Established in 2001, the company focuses on combining advances in software with advanced manufacturing techniques to offer unique custom
Innovacorp Seeks ‘Accelerate’ Applicants
Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp is launching a revamped version of its Accelerate program, which will replace both the old, longer program of the same name and the shorter Sprint accelerator.
Accelerate will be completely
Polyamyna Preps for Clinical Trials
St. John’s-based disinfectant maker Polyamyna Nanotech has inked a deal with Eastern Health to run clinical trials of its product once it receives Health Canada approval.
Polyamyna, which graduated from the Genesis Evolution program in January,
Frenter Wins Volta Contest
A fledgling company that allows individuals to rent and hire personal items like sports equipment has won a pitching contest run by innovation hub Volta.
Halifax-based frenter soft launched on April 5th. Fifteen-year-old Zachary Laberge, the
CandidateHub Automates Recruiting
With COVID-19 making the hiring process more complex than ever, a Riverview, N.B. company has developed a solution to help automate the process of finding and attracting job seekers.
Brad DiPaolo is the founder of CandidateHub.io, which lets
TriNav Wins Hull Design Challenge
St. John’s-based TriNav Marine Design has won a $500,000 prize from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Hull Design Efficiency Challenge.
Founded in the 1990s, TriNav is a consulting firm with offices in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. The
Atlantic FinTech at Payment Summit
Industry group Atlantic FinTech will participate in the 2021 Payments Canada Summit, Canada’s largest payments conference, along with two Moncton-area companies that are members of the group.
The association will be joined by purchase-to–payment
Pivot to COVID Test Boosts LuminUltra
For a Fredericton life sciences company dating back more than two decades, the pandemic has offered an opportunity to reinvigorate its business and venture into the lucrative world of diagnostic medical testing.
LuminUltra was already an innovation
IMV Tests Drug with Breast Cancer
Dartmouth-based drug discovery company IMV has announced that its lead compound, known as maveropepimut-S, will be trialed in patients with hormone receptor positive/HER2-negative breast cancer.
In a statement, the company said these tumors