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ROCarbon, NSCC Aid IKEA Dartmouth

  • Feb 02, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

A Halifax startup and a team of Nova Scotia Community College students are working together to help IKEA Canada assess what to do with the excess solar power produced at its Dartmouth location.

The retail outlet near Dartmouth Crossing is the

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ACOA Lends $1.3M to 3 Companies

  • Feb 01, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is lending $1.3 million to three Dartmouth companies to help them launch or expand their operations.

The federal government’s regional development agency issued a press release last week announcing the

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Four Eyes Doubled Staff, Sales in 2020

  • Jan 31, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Saint John-based Four Eyes Financial doubled its business in 2020, and its founders see no sign of its growth trajectory flattening this year.

Co-founded in 2018 by Lori Weir and Kendall McMenamon, Four Eyes Financial set out to develop a digital

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Innovacorp Names 7 Sprint Winners

  • Jan 31, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp has announced seven winners of its latest Sprint competition, and will award $25,000 to each of them.

The Nova Scotia early-stage venture capital agency said Friday it selected the winners from 40 applications for its winter intake. As

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CHARBOYZ Business is Sizzling

  • Jan 28, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

A pandemic is a dodgy time to open a restaurant, but chef Jason Bourgoin knew he needed to leave the oil patch and get back in the kitchen. The result is CHARBOYZ boxed local meats that come with cooking tips, sauces and seasonings, delivered to

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Planetary Hydrogen Moves to Halifax

  • Jan 28, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Planetary Hydrogen, a cleantech company that has just moved most operations from Ottawa to Halifax, has declared the lofty ambition of removing a gigaton of carbon from the atmosphere annually by 2035.

The cleantech company, which launched in

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Halifax’s Manifold Acquired by Snyk

  • Jan 27, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Manifold has been acquired by Snyk, marking the second time in less than a decade that a company led by Jevon MacDonald has exited.

Snyk Founder Peter McKay posted a blog Tuesday saying his company – whose platform allows programmers

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Energia To Offer 2 Cohorts in 2021

  • Jan 27, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Energia Ventures has announced it will now hold two cohorts a year, with the spring program for 2021 now accepting applications

The program, which has held five cohorts a year for the past four years, is part of University of New Brunswick’s J.

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Outcast Partners with SportChek

  • Jan 26, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based Outcast Foods has partnered with SportChek in a deal that makes the sports retailer Outcast's biggest national retail partner and puts Outcast products in 150 SportChek stores across Canada. 

Outcast uses misfit, unsellable or

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Using Mobile Apps To Improve People’s Lives

  • Jan 26, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

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As a computer science student in Nigeria, Rita Orji says she had little idea how influential her field would become. But as smartphones reshaped the world of IT, she was able to bring her expertise to bear on her true passion:

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With Sales up 50-75%, iTacit Eyes More Growth

  • Jan 25, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

With the introduction of new products and market segments, iTacit is considering raising equity capital for the first time in its almost decade-long history.

The Fredericton-based company has evolved over the past 10 years so it is now best known

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Black, Indigenous Applicants Sought for Boost Program

  • Jan 25, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Nova Scotia’s Black Business Initiative and startup hub Volta are seeking applicants for Boost, a new four-month program designed to support the growth and development of Black and Indigenous entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada.

Launching in

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