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Tranquility Studies Caregiver Mental Health

  • Oct 12, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Tranquility Online, a web-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (iCBT) program, has partnered with Maritime researchers and government to investigate how the pandemic is impacting the mental health of caregivers.

The research will look

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Superclusters Lagging, Says PBO

  • Oct 08, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Canada’s innovation superclusters are lagging behind their intended goals, and the poorest results so far have been produced by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

The PBO this week filed a report on the five

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Outcast Foods and Partners Reduce Waste

  • Oct 08, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Three companies in the pet industry have signed up to reduce the environmental impact of feeding pets by partnering with Outcast Foods.

Shameless Pets, Earth Animal and Cannabiscuit Canada will be using Outcast Foods' dehydrated fruit and vegetable

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Nextcheck Preps for Early Adopters

  • Oct 07, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Nextcheck, which is developing maintenance software for aircraft, has won the 2020 Pitch & Pick competition at Genesis and been accepted into the St. John’s  innovation hub’s Enterprise program.

The company’s three co-founders are building a

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Chambers’ Research into Kids’ Pain Leads to SKIP

  • Oct 07, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

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Dalhousie University psychologist and researcher Dr. Christine Chambers has spent more than 20 years studying pain management in children. But it was the birth of her own kids that spurred her to create her non-profit: Solutions

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Rimot.io’s COVID Screening Device

  • Oct 06, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Rimot.io has developed a new device to screen people entering workplaces for COVID-19, and Halifax Partnership and Volta have signed up as early adopters.

Rimot’s core business is a monitoring technology that helps organizations

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Five Chosen for Energia Ventures

  • Oct 06, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Energia Ventures has selected five companies for the 2020 cohort of its accelerator, which supports startups involved in energy, cleantech, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

The three-month program, which began Sept. 30, is part of

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Techstars Montreal Accepts TrojAI

  • Oct 05, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

TrojAI, a Saint John company that provides cybersecurity for artificial intelligence, has been accepted into Montreal Techstars, the national program specializing in AI products.

The company's co-founders previously worked on EhEye, a Saint John

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Indigena Skincare Adapts with Online Sales

  • Oct 05, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Last year, Lisa Walsh, founder of Newfoundland’s Indigena Skincare, was selling her products to top establishments and planning a rebrand, a product expansion and a spa. This year’s pandemic and terrible snowstorm slowed her plans and necessitated a

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ReelData Sells to Atlantic Sapphire

  • Oct 04, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based ReelData AI, which uses artificial intelligence to improve production in fish farms, has added Denmark’s Atlantic Sapphire to its growing customer list.

The deal means that ReelData’s technology will be used at Atlantic Sapphire’s

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WeUsThem Wins Health Challenge

  • Oct 04, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

WeUsThem Inc. has won the second Health Challenge Pitch Event, which focused on mental health. The Halifax-based advertising agency has developed imTeen, a technology that empowers youth to track and take care of their health by self-monitoring

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Check Out Growing Pains Podcast

  • Oct 01, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

I was featured this week on the Growing Pains podcast, the second week in a row the Atlantic Canadian startup community has featured on the show. 

Hosted by Matt George and economist David Campbell, Growing Pains focuses on economic development

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