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Sperri Closes Round Worth $4M+

  • Sep 12, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Sperri, which makes plant-based meal replacements, has closed a fresh round of funding worth “millions” of dollars led by Nàdarra Ventures and supported by Invest Nova Scotia.

Sperri said it would use the money to support its

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Grant Thornton To Host Dash Hudson Discussion

  • Sep 12, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

We're delighted to welcome Grant Thornton as a platinum sponsor of Entrevestor Live, and to announce that JP Furey, a partner in the firm's assurance practice, will lead a discussion with senior executives of Halifax IT company Dash Hudson
Grant

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Profitual Launches Forecast Evaluator

  • Sep 11, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Profitual, a financial intelligence startup that specializes in working with other young companies, is revamping its branding and has launched a new, free product. 

In an interview Tuesday, CEO Raymond Fitzpatrick said the Fredericton-based company

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One Week Until Entrevestor Live

  • Sep 10, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

There's one week left to buy tickets for Entrevestor Live, our showcase for the best and the brightest of the Atlantic Canadian startup community 

The half-day conference, to be hosted by Saint Mary's University Professor Ellen Farrell, will take

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SMU Heading to Enactus World Cup

  • Sep 09, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

A team from Saint Mary’s University will travel to Kazakhstan in three weeks to compete in the World Cup finals of the Enactus student entrepreneurship competition, for which it has already won the Canadian division.

Founded in 1975 and based in

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Dependbuild Joins Myrtle Beach Living Lab

  • Sep 09, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Dependbuild, the St. John's maker of cloud software to help municipalities and infrastructure developers assess risks to construction projects, is among four companies chosen by the city of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to join its new living lab

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Gerry Pond Award to be Presented Next Week

  • Sep 05, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Virtual startup incubator Propel ICT will present its annual Gerry Pond Sales Award in Moncton on Sept. 17, recognizing its program members that have excelled at selling their product. 

The Gerry Pond Award is an annual, $25,000 cash prize in

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BioPort to Feature VC Panel, Startup Pitches

  • Sep 05, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

This year’s BioPort Atlantic life sciences conference will include a venture capital panel discussion, as well as a pair of pitch sessions featuring pre-seed and seed-stage startups from the region.

When BioPort attendees gather at the Halifax

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UNB Announces Harvard Accelerator Partnership

  • Sep 05, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre, the Fredericton university's entrepreneurship hub, has announced a partnership with Harvard University to bring the Ivy League institution’s prestigious public and planetary

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Kraken Announces Software Partnership

  • Sep 04, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Kraken Robotics, the Newfoundland maker of marine robotics systems that has raised close to $38 million from public markets this year, has signed a major new product partnership.

The company, which specializes in next-generation sonar systems and

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Volta Seeks Investment Day Applicants

  • Sep 04, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to the fall edition of its Investment Day event, which it hosts in collaboration with accelerator Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic.

The event will be held at Volta’s new offices in downtown

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Genesis Seeks Evolution Applicants

  • Sep 02, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Genesis, the Newfoundland and Labrador entrepreneurship hub, is looking for applicants to the fall, 2024 cohort of its 10-week Evolution startup program.

Genesis bills Evolution as a “pre-incubator” course meant to prepare young companies for

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