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Supercluster’s New Startup Program

  • Feb 24, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Friday unveiled a $6.8 million program that will support the creation of more and better oceantech startups in Atlantic Canada.

The Ocean Supercluster – a private-public partnership formed with the support of the

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Jobs: Lab2Market, Fiddlehead

  • Feb 24, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Two quite different jobs – a Data Scientist at Moncton-based Fiddlehead Technology, and an Instructor at Lab2Market in Halifax  – headline our Job of the Week column today.

Lab2Market is a new pan-Canadian program that aims to help researchers

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Enactus Exposition Set for Halifax

  • Feb 21, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Eighteen student teams will compete in the 2020 Enactus Atlantic Canada Regional Exposition in Halifax next month, all hoping to move on to the Enactus national championships.

Enactus is an international organization that helps students form social

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What’s Wrong with PR These Days

  • Feb 20, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The decline of journalism, so well documented, has produced collateral casualties in an associated industry: public relations.

Journalists and PR professionals have always been entwined in an uneasy dependency. They need one another to thrive. They

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AVF Seeks Pitchers for May Event

  • Feb 20, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Venture Forum has opened applications for startups hoping to present at its two-day conference in early May in Halifax.

The eighth annual AVF, which will take place May 6 and 7 at the Lord Nelson Hotel, is a meeting place for Atlantic

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VAS To Use SomaDetect Software

  • Feb 19, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton agtech company SomaDetect has announced that the application programing interface, or API, of Valley Agricultural Software, the world’s largest provider of dairy management software, will be integrated into SomaDetect’s technology.

The

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GrowDoc Moves to La Coupe Finals

  • Feb 19, 2020
  • Inda Intiar, Huddle

GrowDoc, a startup with a mobile app that helps identify sick cannabis plants, will move on to national competition after winning La Coupe Des Startups at Université de Moncton Thursday night.

The Moncton-based company will receive a $1,000 grant

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Mendonça Aims to Enrich Mindset at MUN

  • Feb 18, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

With entrepreneurship gaining momentum in St. John’s, Memorial University of Newfoundland has promoted in-house to fill its new position of Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Paula Mendonça received her PhD in biology from MUN and she has

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Marecomms Aims for Sales this Year

  • Feb 13, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Later this year, Ulaş Güntürkün hopes to have a product on the market that can dramatically improve performance and cut costs of communications between autonomous underwater vehicles and other submarine equipment.

Güntürkün is the Founder and CEO

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Our Survey Campaign Raised $1,330 for Australian Wildfire Relief

  • Feb 12, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Thank you to everyone who has filled out our survey! You’ve helped us generate metrics on the region’s startup ecosystem and you’ve helped Australians recover from devastating wildfires.

When we launched our survey this year, we promised to donate

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DeNova, Sedna, COVE Split $1.4M

  • Feb 12, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The federal and Nova Scotia governments on Wednesday announced more than $1.4 million in funding for two ocean-related companies and a support organization.

Halifax-based life sciences company DeNova, which is developing a sustainable source of

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Sona Develops Test for Coronavirus

  • Feb 12, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based Sona Nanotech is developing a rapid screening test for the Coronavirus, a fatal disease that has spread around the world.

Sona is using its nanotechnology in the development of a rapid screening test for the novel Coronavirus, known

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