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Picketa Raises $1.4M

  • May 28, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton-based Picketa Systems, which makes hardware and software for analyzing plant tissues, has raised a $1.4 million seed round led by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation ahead of an early adopter program. 

The agtech startup is

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Appili Wins Liquid Antibiotic Patent in US

  • May 25, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics, which specializes in developing infectious disease treatments, has bagged a United States patent for its liquid formulation of the antibiotic metronidazole.

For Appili, which was founded in 2015,

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Final Live BUILD Workshop Next Week

  • May 25, 2023
  • Carol Moreira

Black entrepreneurs are invited to sign up for the final live BUILD workshop in Halifax, which is titled Pitching Your Business to Investors.

Occurring next Wednesday, May 31, the workshop is being offered by Tribe Network, a group that offers

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Dal, L2M Launch Founders Council

  • May 25, 2023
  • Emma Zhao

Lab2Market Launch and Dalhousie University have unveiled their inaugural Founder Council network for their Atlantic and National Health cohorts.

More than 40 founder council members from across Canada signed up to join the program.

The program

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Spellbook Raises US$10.9M

  • May 25, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based Spellbook, the maker of artificial intelligence-enabled contract-drafting software, has raised a US$10.9 million or C$14.8 million seed round from investors including Thomson Reuters, the Toronto data and publishing giant that

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CDL Atlantic Announces 20 Graduate Companies

  • May 24, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Dalhousie University’s CDL Atlantic, part of the internationally noted Creative Destruction Lab network of startup accelerators, has announced the companies graduating from this year’s Oceans cohort for bluetech companies and its Prime cohort for

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NZE Joins Bluetech Boost Accelerator

  • May 24, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s Net-Zero Edge, or NZE, is joining the 10-week Bluetech Boost accelerator from Gulf of Maine Ventures, the investment arm of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute oceantech hub in Portland, Maine.

Founded last year by blue economy veteran

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Get Coding Expands in Atlantic Canada

  • May 23, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Get Coding Training, a Newfoundland and Labrador-based information technology jobs training company, is expanding throughout Atlantic Canada in the wake of strong demand from workers in more traditional industries looking to change careers.

Founded

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Genesis Seeks Evolution Applicants

  • May 23, 2023
  • Emma Zhao

Genesis, Newfoundland and Labrador’s startup hub, is seeking applications for its Evolution accelerator program this summer.

According to Genesis, this program is a “pre-incubator program,” which offers intensive and experiential learning to help

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Swiftsure Closes $2.3M Round

  • May 18, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

Having successfully completed clinical trials, Pasadena, NL-based medtech company Swiftsure Innovations has raised a $2.3 million seed funding round, led by Pelorus VC.

Founded three years ago by intensive care unit nurse Deanne McCarthy, Swiftsure

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Region Raised $57M in Q1, Says CVCA

  • May 18, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canadian startups raised $57 million in venture capital through 13 deals in the first quarter – a respectable performance given the decline in venture capital elsewhere in the county.

Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association

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Atlantic Startups Shed Jobs in Q1

  • May 18, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The first quarter of 2023 saw a rare downturn in startup jobs on the East Coast, with total employment in the sector dropping to levels comparable to the worst days of the pandemic, according to data from early stage venture capital fund Concrete

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