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Total Mom Pitch Seeks Entrepreneurs

  • Sep 24, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Toronto-based Total Mom Pitch is offering entrepreneurs who are mothers a chance to win prize money and support from established female mentors.

This is the second time the Total Mom Pitch has been held, and this year it is expanding from Toronto

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Introhive Wins Martech Breakthrough Award

  • Sep 24, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Introhive, a leading maker of B2B sales intelligence software, has won the CRM Software Innovation Award at the third annual MarTech Breakthrough Awards program.

The MarTech Breakthrough Awards are a global competition that recognizes the top

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Data Report Reveals Funding Concerns Despite Strong Growth

  • Sep 23, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Canadian startup community set records for new companies, employment, and funding in 2019, but also experienced a worrying downturn in smaller financing deals.

Those are the highlights of our 2019 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report,

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Clean Catch Wins AquaHacking

  • Sep 23, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Clean Catch Baits, which plans to have its environmentally friendly fishing lures on the market next spring, has won $23,000 in the first AquaHacking Challenge held in Atlantic Canada.

The company, which formed at Saint Mary’s

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Prospre Wins Summer Showdown

  • Sep 22, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based Prospre, whose app helps people plan nutritious meals, has won Propel’s Startup Summer Showdown, claiming the grand prize of $10,000 and in-kind services.

The company, which received the $15,000 second prize in Memorial

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Kinduct Acquired by mCube

  • Sep 22, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based sportstech company Kinduct has exited.

The company announced today it has been sold to mCube, a Silicon Valley company that produces the world’s smallest sensors, for an undisclosed price. Kinduct, whose platform provides customized

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Meta Gains Nasdaq Listing in Merger

  • Sep 21, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Metamaterial Inc. has agreed to merge with an American company that will provide it with a listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange and at least US$10 million (C$13.3 million) in new financing.

The Dartmouth company, which makes products from manmade

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OSC’s Indigenous Career Project

  • Sep 21, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster and several First Nations community partners have launched a new program to help Indigenous workers find job placements in the ocean economy.

The Supercluster on Monday announced the launch of the Indigenous Career Pivot

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GoodLeaf’s Guelph Farm Fully Operational

  • Sep 21, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

A 4,000-square-metre indoor vertical farm operated by Nova Scotia and Ontario-based GoodLeaf Farms is now fully operational in Guelph, Ontario.

The farm is fully automated and equipped to grow microgreens and baby greens 365 days a year without the

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REDspace Celebrates 20 Years

  • Sep 20, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Though the pandemic has made REDspace’s 20th year a strange time, CEO Mike Johnston believes his company is well positioned to thrive as the economy improves.

The Bedford, NS, software development company, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last

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Join Our Data Presentation Thursday

  • Sep 20, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

There are just a few days left to sign up for the virtual presentation of our 2019 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report, which will take place at noon on Thursday.

We've teamed up with Volta for this presentation. We had been planning to do an

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ESCF Open for Fall Submissions

  • Sep 20, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Researchers engaged in IT, life sciences, cleantech, oceantech, and other technologies are invited to apply to Innovacorp’s Early Stage Commercialization Fund, which provides up to $50,000 per project for post-secondary researchers to move their

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