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Farmers’ Truck in California Pilot
The Farmers’ Truck, the Moncton company that helps mobile food markets, is launching a pilot program in California that will help non-profits develop financially sustainable programs to alleviate food insecurity.
The company said over the weekend
Time To Get Those Surveys In
We’re in the home stretch of our campaign to get Atlantic Canadian founders to complete our survey to help us produce the best startup data possible.
The good news: we’ve had a great response and are about halfway to our target. I don’t know if I
Spring Loaded Launches Back Brace
Spring Loaded Technology, which makes advanced knee braces, has launched a customizable back brace called Lumbrella to help combat the growing problem of back pain.
The Dartmouth company issued a press release late last week saying Lumbrella was
Great Data on Cape Breton
Founders are responding to our request to fill out our survey, and we had a flood of responses Friday from the burgeoning startup community in Cape Breton.
We've been getting responses from across the region, but we were surprised by the activity
Venn Names Godfrey Sauveur as Chair
Venn Innovation has named Tammy Godfrey Sauveur as the first female Chair of its Board of Directors, and named three women to its board.
Godfrey Sauveur, who is Senior Director of People and Transformation at gambling machine maker IGT, succeeds
Talem Health Closes $2.3M Round
Talem Health Analytics, which makes software for auto insurers, has closed a $2.3 million equity funding round led by Build Ventures, which will allow the Sydney-based company to extend its reach in the insurance industry.
The company issued a
COVE Unveils Marine Testing Platform
A multi-user marine testing platform, dubbed Stella Maris, is taking shape at the Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship in Dartmouth.
The platform will help oceantech firms develop, test and commercialize marine sensor technologies.
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Nautel Buys 2 French Companies
Nautel, the Nova Scotia-based maker of radio transmitters, has acquired French technology companies Digidia and Kenta to expand its offerings of products in the broadcast and maritime communications sectors.
The Hackett’s Cove-based company
Our Databank Shows Fewer New Companies, More Failures in 2020
The Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2020 eked out its weakest growth in at least seven years as the pandemic resulted in fewer new companies and more failures.
This is the preliminary picture of the East Coast startup community that we’ve
El-Darahali on NRC, BBI, ISANS Boards
Saeed El-Darahali, President and CEO of Dartmouth-based marketing automation company SimplyCast, has added new appointments to the number of boards he sits on.
El-Darahali has been appointed to the National Research Council of Canada, the Black
Ocean Startup Project Preps for Year 2
Having completed its first full year, the Ocean Startup Project is gearing up to increase its work in Year 2 with a mission of producing more ocean-related startups in the region and country.
The project is a collaboration between a range of groups
Help Us Prep for Entrevestor Events
We see the Entrevestor Survey as a community project, with founders providing us with data while we in turn share what we learn with the community.
We’re on Day 3 of our campaign to have founders of Atlantic Canadian innovation-driven startups