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Volta Names Four New Directors

  • Dec 08, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Volta, Canada’s East Coast Innovation Hub, has named four new members to its board of directors.

The board provides direction and leadership in carrying out Volta’s goal of building a community in which entrepreneurs can come together to learn from

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17 Graduate from JEDI Programs

  • Dec 08, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Seventeen Indigenous entrepreneurs will graduate this week from the Joint Economic Development Initiative’s Indigenous Business Incubator and Accelerator programs.

Fredericton-based JEDI, as the organization is known, is an economic development

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Electric Owl Grows Food-Producing Venture

  • Dec 05, 2019
  • By Eli Lusty

Halifax-based Electric Owl is preparing to launch a digital garden management platform targeted at the 46 million households in North America that grow their own food. 

The social enterprise aims to launch its Garden Manager product in the spring

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Blue-Green, Start-up Yard Winners

  • Dec 05, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp has announced the companies selected to participate in its Blue-Green Challenge and Start-Up Yard at COVE cohort for the 2019-2020 season.

The Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency issued a statement Thursday saying

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Training a Broader Base of Founders

  • Dec 04, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

At Entrevestor, we’re dedicated to the growth of innovation-driven companies as vehicles for economic development in Atlantic Canada. But it would be great if economic policy in the region focused more on entrepreneurs than innovators.

We’re all

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MUN’s Woodward Cup Seeks Entries

  • Dec 03, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship has opened applications for the 2020 Mel Woodward Cup, which will hand out $35,000 in prize money to companies founded by Memorial University students.

MCE Director Florian Villaumé sent out an email Monday

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A Look at Halifax’s Startups in 2018

  • Dec 02, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax in 2018 maintained its position as the cornerstone of the Atlantic Canadian startup community, and in the last two years the city’s ecosystem has deepened.

As we present segments from our 2018 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report, we’re

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Dal, MUN in Lab2Market Pilot

  • Dec 02, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Dalhousie University and Memorial University of Newfoundland are at the forefront of a new national program to help researchers turn their discoveries into businesses.

They will be two of the three Canadian universities that will be piloting

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Region Slips in Tech Talent Rankings

  • Dec 01, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canadian cities have generally lost ground in the past year in the rankings of Canadian tech talent centres, even though other small cities have advanced.

The real estate consultancy CBRE last week released its report titled 2019 Scoring

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Redmond Joins Emergence Incubator

  • Dec 01, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Prince Edward Island BioAlliance has appointed Mark Redmond as Director of Incubation Services for the Emergence incubator, which supports life sciences startups in Atlantic Canada and elsewhere.

The BioAlliance – a partnership of government,

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Teaching Robots to Collaborate in Hostile Environments

  • Nov 29, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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Mae Seto compares the way her laboratory programs robots to work to the way we all try to raise our children.

An associate professor in Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Engineering, Seto’s official titles include the Director of

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Medteq To Host $200K Pitch Event

  • Nov 29, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Montreal-based health technology organization Medteq is seeking health startups to apply to pitch at its next funding event, which offers startups a chance to win $200,000 in funding.

Five founders from across the country will pitch at a

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