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BlueGrid Builds Working Vessel-to-Grid System

  • Jun 06, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based BlueGrid and its partners have built what they believe to be the first working vessel-to-grid energy transfer system in the world, making it possible for boat owners to sell power back to local utilities.

BlueGrid, formally Rimot, was

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2023 Funding Marked by Stealth Deals, Weak Angel Activity

  • Jun 04, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Stealth funding deals proliferated in Atlantic Canada in 2023, while angel investment reached its lowest ebb in at least eight years.

Those are among the findings of Entrevestor’s 2023 Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report, with the unannounced

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Planetary Readies for Second Year of Testing

  • Jun 04, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

In the wake of successful testing with Dalhousie University last summer, Dartmouth climatetech startup Planetary Technologies is preparing to repeat the collaboration in the coming months.

Founded in Ottawa in 2019, Planetary is developing a

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CarbonCure Launches in Emirates

  • Jun 02, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based cleantech star CarbonCure has formally launched its technology in the United Arab Emirates, a market worth tens of billions annually and forecast to grow strongly, on the back of deals with several large companies in the region.

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Technow Named BIOTECanada Chairman

  • Jun 02, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Oliver Technow, the CEO of Charlottetown drug manufacturer BIOVECTRA, has been named the new chair of industry group BIOTECanada.

Technow, who leads a company that is among the largest and fastest-growing players in the Prince Edward

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Pilot X Readies Courier Marketplace

  • May 31, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

A Halifax courier startup is aiming to improve on conventional delivery apps with the help of a marketplace model.

Pilot X Technologies Co-Founders Kendall Darling and Ranajay Sarma originally conceived of the app as a delivery service that would

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Dal Announces 17 Launch Teams

  • May 31, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Dalhousie University and national research commercialization accelerator Lab2Market have announced the 17 teams participating in their latest Launch accelerator for researchers looking to commercialize their work, as well as a new summer

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Strong Growth Continues at Kraken

  • May 29, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics has extended its run of strong sales growth, the company announced Wednesday, reporting its best-ever financial results for the first quarter with revenue up 175 per cent compared to the same period last year.

About

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Train With Me Wins at Volta Pitch Competition

  • May 28, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Sports- and fitness-focused social media startup Train With Us won Halifax startup hub Volta’s quarterly Virtual Pitch Competition on Wednesday.

Founded by athletics entrepreneur David Rafuse, who holds a degree in kinetics from St. Francis Xavier

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Invest Nova Scotia, ACOA Seek Oceans Companies

  • May 28, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Invest Nova Scotia, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and their partners are seeking oceantech companies to co-exhibit with a Canadian government contingent at the OCEANS 2024 conference in Halifax this fall.

Slated to be held Sept. 23 to

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Entrevestor Live Returns Sept. 17

  • May 27, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

We're thrilled to announce that Entrevestor Live -- the only conference dedicated exclusively to Atlantic Canada's greatest startup successes -- will return for a fourth year this autumn, packing a superb program of speakers into a single

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Supercluster Backs Supply Chains, Propulsion, Climatetech

  • May 27, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a trio of new projects worth $14.2 million: one developing electric propulsion technology, one to help optimize maritime supply chains and one to study kelp’s role in carbon sequestration and marine

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