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Volta Names Four New Directors
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
17 Graduate from JEDI Programs
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
Electric Owl Grows Food-Producing Venture
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
Blue-Green, Start-up Yard Winners
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
Training a Broader Base of Founders
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
MUN’s Woodward Cup Seeks Entries
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
A Look at Halifax’s Startups in 2018
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
Dal, MUN in Lab2Market Pilot
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
Region Slips in Tech Talent Rankings
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
Redmond Joins Emergence Incubator
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,
Teaching Robots to Collaborate in Hostile Environments
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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
Medteq To Host $200K Pitch Event
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