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Ocean Supercluster Unveils Innovation Projects

  • Jan 16, 2025
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Retellio Closes $1.3M VC Round

  • Jan 15, 2025
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NBIF Funds Universities With $910K

  • Mar 28, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced $910,000 of funding for two research institutions at the University of New Brunswick and a third at the Université de Moncton with an eye towards fostering technological innovation in the

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Supercluster Calls for Transport, Seafood Proposals

  • Mar 28, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is seeking project proposals related to transportation in the maritime sector, as well as sustainable seafood.

The federal organization, which partners with the private sector to fund research and development work, is

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Tribe, SMU Announce Scholarships for Black, Indigenous Students

  • Mar 27, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based Tribe Network, the industry group that supports racialized entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada, has announced a new scholarship program under a collaboration with Saint Mary’s University to help Black and Indigenous students break into

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Acuicy Joins Techstars Sustainability

  • Mar 27, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Acuicy, the Halifax-based maker of business intelligence software for emissions reduction, is the only Atlantic Canadian company among 11 chosen to participate in this spring’s edition of Techstars Sustainability Paris, a cleantech accelerator from

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Symbodi Recognized by Fast Company

  • Mar 26, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton-based Symbodi is the only Canadian company to make this year’s list of the 10 Most Innovative Companies in Wellness and Personal Care, as ranked by prestigious American business magazine Fast Company.

Incorporated in 2018 by Founder

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Foodtech Atlantic to be Held in Digby

  • Mar 26, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and national industry group the Canadian Food Innovation Network will host a one-day conference in Digby, N.S. April 18.

Dubbed Foodtech Atlantic, the event’s theme this year will be “advancing innovation

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Atlantic BioCorp Will Fund Production Facility with Woodward Cup Prize

  • Mar 25, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Atlantic BioCorp Founder Dante Enewold plans to use the $25,000 he won in last week's Woodward Cup pitch competition to build a production facility for his process that converts crab shells into chitosan.

Held Wednesday by the Memorial Centre for

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Rachael Craig’s MotionHall Exits

  • Mar 24, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Rachael Craig, who was active in the early days of the Halifax startup ecosystem, now has a Silicon Valley exit on her résumé.

Craig was a Co-Founder and (until recently) CEO of San Francisco-based MotionHall, which developed software that provided

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Victory Receives $400K from ACOA

  • Mar 22, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

A Saint John electric vehicle startup has received just over $400,000 from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency as it looks to scale production of its high-performance motors.

Victory Advanced Technologies sells powertrains that can be

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LadderSpike Wins National Pitch Competition

  • Mar 22, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

As St. John’s-based LadderSpike looks to start delivering on its pre-orders this spring, the company has won a pitch competition at the Canadian Construction Association’s annual conference, bagging the top prize with its footing system for ladders.

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MIMOSA Wins at Medtech Investment Challenge

  • Mar 21, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

MIMOSA Diagnostics, the Halifax- and Toronto-based maker of a medical device for non-invasively measuring tissue damage, was victorious at Wednesday’s medtech finals of the Atlantic Canada Healthtech Scale-up and Investment Challenge, besting four

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Youth Innovation Fair Coming to Miramichi

  • Mar 21, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Brilliant Labs, an Atlantic Canadian charity that aims to foster coding and digital skills among youth, will host an innovation fair in Miramichi April 4, with the timing chosen to align with an eclipse that will happen on the 8th.

Slated to be

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