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Nwogu Studying Processes at Region’s Startups

  • Nov 26, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

A Dalhousie University PhD student is investigating best practice among the region’s information technology startups and looking for a few dozen Nova Scotian founders to help him with the study.

Uchechukwu Nwogu, who is working on his doctorate in

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Fundraising, Staffing and Regulators: Notes for Founders

  • Nov 23, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Good management practices, in both human resources and finances, offer founders the best chance of successfully navigating an innovation landscape that continues to be marked by conflicting economic signals, a panel of startup experts said last

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TechNL to Host Digital Offshore Conference

  • Nov 23, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Industry groups TechNL and Energy NL, along with non-profit Energy Research and Innovation Newfoundland and Labrador, will host a two-day conference Tuesday and Wednesday at the St. John’s Convention Centre.

The conference will be focused on the

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Investment Challenge Seeks Would-Be Funders

  • Nov 22, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The Atlantic Canada Cleantech Scale-up and Investment Challenge is looking for would-be investors to participate in a 10-week training program and eventually back the winners of its 21-company healthtech and cleantech startup competitions.

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38 Student Teams to Compete in Bluetech Competition

  • Nov 22, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Brilliant Labs, which aims to foster coding and digital skills among the youth, will host its inaugural Brilliant Blue innovation competition virtually Dec. 16, with 19 teams from Nova Scotia and another 19 international groups.

The challenge

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Veristart Wins Pitch & Pick

  • Nov 21, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Construction technology-maker Veristart has won $10,000 from this year’s Pitch & Pick Invitational startup competition, held by Newfoundland and Labrador’s Genesis startup hub for graduates of its Evolution accelerator.

Founded by entrepreneurs

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Sustainable Fish Food Firm Wins Illuminate

  • Nov 21, 2023
  • Carol Moreira

A PhD student who aims to protect wild fish stocks by producing food made from insects won big at the recent Illuminate program at Memorial University in St. John’s.

Jessika Lamarre, founder of Invertable, took home multiple awards at the inaugural

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CoteX Partners with Nutrien

  • Nov 21, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based agtech company CoteX Technologies has formed a partnership with agribusiness giant Nutrien to jointly explore commercializing an environmentally friendly coating for fertilizer.

The two companies issued a joint press release last

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Technow Plans Biologics as BIOVECTRA Pillar

  • Nov 20, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

As Charlottetown-based drug manufacturer BIOVECTRA launches its new, $90 million biomanufacturing facility, CEO Oliver Technow says expansion of its production capacity is an important part of its plans to stay internationally competitive.

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Energia Demo Day Features Four Startups

  • Nov 20, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Energia Ventures, the Fredericton-based accelerator affiliated with University of New Brunswick, will hold its demo day for the four companies in its latest cohort on Dec. 7.

Energia is hosted by the university’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for

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Startups Must Pursue Global Markets: Radian6 Alumni

  • Nov 19, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The entrepreneurs behind Radian6, one of the startups that helped put Atlantic Canada on the innovation map, have a message for founders: think bigger.

Marcel LeBrun was Radian6’s CEO, and David Alston was its chief marketing officer. When their

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Atlantic Startups Raised $117M in Q3

  • Nov 19, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Atlantic Canadian startups raised $117 million in the third quarter of 2023, according to data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. Much of that investment capital was tied to the largest funding round in Nova Scotia

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