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Granville Biomedical Gains Clients

  • Jan 16, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

St. John’s-based Granville Biomedical is improving women’s health by 3D printing vaginal simulation products that allow healthcare workers to learn about injuries caused by childbirth, disease and genital mutilation.

The company, which formed early

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SDTC Grants SomaDetect $3.9M

  • Jan 16, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based SomaDetect, whose technology helps to detect disease in dairy cows, has been approved for a $3.9 million grant from Sustainable Development Technology Canada.

The two groups issued a statement on Wednesday saying the funding will

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How Doug Jones Developed Ignite

  • Jan 15, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

As improbable as it sounds, Doug Jones has turned a love of sports into a licencing business, then into an innovation hub in Yarmouth and then into an entrepreneurship network for rural Nova Scotia.

Jones is the CEO of Ignite Labs, the innovation

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ProcedureFlow Partners with Deloitte

  • Jan 15, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

ProcedureFlow , the Saint John company that helps companies’ employees find critical information quickly, has struck a partnership with Deloitte to penetrate new markets in North America and elsewhere.

ProcedureFlow, whose corporate name is Gemba

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Code Ninjas Opens Halifax Office

  • Jan 15, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

A new branch of the global Code Ninjas group has opened to allow Halifax-area kids to learn to code by building video games, robotics, and drones.

Aimed at children aged seven to 14, the new centre will host a grand opening on Feb. 1. Complimentary

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PEI’s Startup Zone Eyes Busy 2020

  • Jan 14, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Zone, the entrepreneurial incubator in the heart of Charlottetown, had a busy year in 2019, starting an in-house accelerator and co-hosting a MentorCamp. And now CEO Patrick Farrar is looking forward to more activity in 2020.

Patrick

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Eigen Promotes Picot, Barrett

  • Jan 14, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Eigen Innovations, the Fredericton-based artificial intelligence solutions provider, is expanding the role of two senior team members, naming Greg Picot to the role of President and Chief Operating Officer, while Erin Barrett has been promoted to

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Calling All Startups Launched in 2019

  • Jan 13, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

At Entrevestor, we’re now compiling our most recent databank of Atlantic Canadian startups, and we want to make sure we have every company that launched in the past year.

So we’re asking new innovation-based companies that have been flying below

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East Valley Books 3 Recent Exits

  • Jan 10, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

A quick study of the Portfolio page on the East Valley Ventures website tells an interesting story about how the Saint John-based investment group has been quietly exiting some companies and investing in others.

In fact, the page shows that East

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7th Wave Capital Launches

  • Jan 10, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

A new investment group called 7th Wave Capital has been launched to support five established businesses a year in the Maritime Provinces.

The new Halifax-based group is headed by Paul LeBlanc, best known for his communications ventures such as

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Summer Institute Seeks Applicants

  • Jan 09, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The Summer Institute, a 12-week accelerator for young companies from a range of sectors, is looking for applicants for its 2020 cohort, and is especially eager for social ventures to apply.

Now in its seventh year, the program is offered by the

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Moncton’s Prelam Aids SMEs

  • Jan 09, 2020
  • Inda Intiar, Huddle

Moncton-based Prelam Enterprises, which specializes in odour control offerings like Just’a Drop and LUKY8, is offering to share its manufacturing facility and expertise to businesses in Atlantic Canada.

“We realized that a lot of small companies

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