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TLT East Aims To Close Fund Feb. 28

  • Feb 18, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

A new Atlantic Canadian investment group is hoping to close its first fund this month, and make its first investment at about the same time.

TLT East Ventures is the brainchild of Michael Brown, a New Brunswick-born investment banker whose career

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SudDrop Expanding to Ontario

  • Feb 15, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax basketball player Jayrell Diggs is partnering with courier companies and laundromats to grow his SudDrop laundry service into new provinces.

The student athlete is expanding his laundry subscription service to Ontario this summer, with the

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We Need More Surveys for Better Data

  • Feb 13, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Our column Wednesday about the decline in Atlantic Canadian startups sparked an interesting discussion on LinkedIn, with a related chat about whether AI and other factors are creating a wave of “solopreneurs”.

We had some requests to flesh out the

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Ocean Startup Project Launches L2M Cohort

  • Feb 12, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

The fifth cohort of Ocean Startup Project’s Lab2Market Oceans/Validate program has begun work with 21 new teams that aim to tackle challenges in the blue economy.

The eight-week program, hosted by Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador,

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Have we Reached Peak Startup in Atlantic Canada?

  • Feb 12, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

There’s a troubling metric we’re discovering as we work on our next Atlantic Canada Startup Data report. For the first time, the startup community appears to be shrinking. As of right now, we have 732 innovation-driven companies in the Entrevestor

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Greenshoots Submissions Live

  • Feb 11, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Invest Nova Scotia and partners are seeking early-stage agri-technology and bioeconomy companies to apply for GreenShoots programming.

GreenShoots is for companies in the agriculture, agri-food, bioeconomy, clean technology, and related sectors and

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MIMOSA Breaks into U.S. Healthcare System

  • Feb 10, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

The technology created by Halifax medtech startup MIMOSA Diagnostics has been acknowledged as an assessment tool by U.S. Medicare and Medicaid providers, allowing the company to scale south of the border.

In November of last year, U.S. Medicare and

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VCIC Contest Now National

  • Feb 07, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

The competition that trains student venture capitalists in real world situations is going national with student entrepreneurs from across the country arriving to pitch their businesses to young venture capitalists in Halifax.

Until now, the

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We Need Your Help!

  • Feb 07, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

We really need CEOs and founders to take a few minutes and complete our 100% confidential survey.

We’re now beginning to analyze the data that we’ve been collecting, but we need a lot more surveys to finish the job. We can’t emphasize this enough:

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Applications Open for 2 Dal Programs

  • Feb 06, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Dalhousie University has announced that two programs for entrepreneurial-minded students, researchers and faculty from across Canada are now open for applications.

Collide Launch and Lab2Market Launch 2025 are looking for applicants who believe

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econext Seeks Solutions for Remote Clean Energy in NL

  • Feb 05, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Canadian innovators are asked to present technical solutions that lower maintenance costs while boosting the reliability and performance of remote clean energy infrastructure in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The winner of the econext Clean Energy

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Dash Social Wins Big at Halifax Business Awards

  • Feb 04, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Dash Social, the social media management company formerly known as Dash Hudson, was named the Business of the Year at the Halifax Chamber of Commerce’s 2025 Halifax Business Awards on Monday.

We believe it’s the first time a venture-backed startup

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