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Picomole Wins Funding for Diagnostic Lung Cancer Device

  • Feb 12, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Moncton-based medical technology company Picomole has announced non-dilutive funding for its breath analytics technology, which has the potential to be a low-cost and effective tool for cancer screening.

The announcement Tuesday revealed that the

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Novonix To Grow With $500K Loan

  • Feb 11, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Novonix Battery Testing Services Inc., which tests batteries used as alternative power sources, has borrowed $500,000 from the federal government to help develop a new manufacturing facility.

Bedford-based Novonix issued a statement on Monday

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Please Help Us With Our Survey

  • Feb 11, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Today, we’re launching our campaign to ask the founders and CEOs of Atlantic Canadian startups to take two minutes to complete our 2018 survey.

We’re working with partners across the region to enhance our annual analysis of the Atlantic Canadian

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US Tech Magazine Recognizes Harbr

  • Feb 10, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Harbr has been recognized as one of this year’s Top 10 Construction Technology Solution Providers by CIO Applications, a Silicon Valley-based technology magazine.

Harbr’s recognition is based on an evaluation of its capabilities in

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Jobs: Dash Hudson, Adaptiiv, CDL

  • Feb 10, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Three openings in Halifax headline our Jobs of the Week column today.

Digital health company Adaptiiv is in the market for an Operations Associate, while visual marketing SaaS company Dash Hudson is looking for a Junior Customer Success

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Bend Beauty Aims To Be Global Brand

  • Feb 07, 2019
  • Jennifer Lee

A Halifax-based company has created a new skin care line that claims to treat your skin from the inside out. 

Bend Beauty is a high-end skin-care company that produces ingestible supplements that reduce inflammation in the skin and build its

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2 Exits That Shaped NB’s Ecosystem

  • Feb 07, 2019
  • Alexandre Silberman, Huddle

The idea for one of Fredericton’s latest tech startups was dreamed up on a hike in Scotland.

As Duncan McSporran and Ryan Groom, the co-founders of Kognitiv Spark cleared their heads in the outdoors and talked about augmented-reality software

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NS Social Venture Fund Launched

  • Feb 06, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Social Enterprise Network of Nova Scotia and the national Social Enterprise Ecosystem Project have joined up to launch the province’s first impact investment fund, the Social Enterprise Impact Investment Pilot.

The two groups issued a press

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Genome Atlantic Fighting Superbugs

  • Feb 06, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based non-profit Genome Atlantic has announced the development of a $1.4 million research project to develop new surveillance tools to help identify and track genes involved in superbugs.

In a statement, Genome Atlantic said that bacteria

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Beyond Food Raises $1M Round

  • Feb 05, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Beyond Food Inc. has closed a $1 million funding round to help it launch its system that will convert aging supermarket produce into a powdered food supplement.

The company issued a press release this week saying it raised the money

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NB Funding Up 400%+ in 2018

  • Feb 04, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Any time an economic metric more than quadruples in one year, you have to figure it was a pretty good year. So, 2018 was definitely a good period for funding by New Brunswick startups.

Though all the funding from last year has yet to be announced,

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SMU Centre Targets Social Ventures

  • Feb 04, 2019
  • Lu Xu

As it extends its mandate beyond the university’s business school, the Saint Mary’s University Entrepreneurship Centre is focusing more heavily on helping students launch social enterprises.

Founded almost two decades ago as the Sobey School

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