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Ocean Supercluster Unveils Innovation Projects
Halifax-based Marine Thinking will lead two research projects with a total value of almost $5 million, Canada's Ocean Supercluster announced on Thursday.
The two projects to be led by the Halifax company were part of a package of three new ocean
Retellio Closes $1.3M VC Round
Retellio, the St. John’s company that uses AI to create personalized podcasts for the staff of large businesses, has closed a $1.3 million venture capital round, to help finance its scaling plans.
St. John’s-based Pelorus Venture Capital led the
BMO Apex Startup Challenge Coming to Fredericton
Ecosystem members are invited to watch 24 teams from University of New Brunswick and other Canadian post-secondary institutions compete for up to $30,000 in cash awards later this month.
The BMO Apex Startup Challenge will be held Thursday, Jan. 23
Nominations Open for Atlantic Canada Cleantech Awards
Applications are sought for Foresight Canada’s 2025 Cleantech Awards with organizers planning to recognize ventures and ecosystem leaders that are advancing innovation and growth in Atlantic Canada.
BC-based Foresight Canada is a cleantech
We Need Young Companies To Complete our Survey
We have an urgent need for young companies to complete our short, confidential survey so we can get an accurate picture of whether the Atlantic Canada startup community is growing or shrinking.
We’ve been working on our startup databank and have
Aruna Revolution Inks Dragons’ Den Deal
Dartmouth-based Aruna Revolution, a women-led company that makes compostable sanitary products from plants, last week raised money on the popular television show Dragons’ Den.
The Aruna team asked the Den’s investors for $250,000 for a 10 percent
Spellbook Launches Playbooks
Spellbook, the St. John’s maker of AI-driven tools for lawyers, has announced a new product for in-house counsels – the lawyers whose only client is the enterprise they work for.
This week, the company – which has raised more than $40 million in
Vital Questions Facing East Coast Startups
As we research our Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report, which we’ll publish in the spring, we think it’s more important than ever that startup founders or CEOs complete our short survey.
Why more important than ever? Because the startup community
Site 20/20, WeyMedia Made Deloitte Fast 50 in 2024
We’d like to start 2025 with a piece of news we missed late last year: Site 20/20 of Dartmouth and WeyMedia of Dieppe, N.B., were both named to Deloitte’s prestigious Technology Fast 50 list of Canada’s fastest-growing startups.
Site 20/20 placed
Balendra Makes Forbes’ 30 Under 30
Nivatha Balendra, founder and CEO of Laval, Quebec-based Dispersa, has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2025 in the Science category.
Cleantech startup Dispersa runs its Sydney operation out of the industrial bioprocessing facility
Launching our Latest Startup Survey
We’re calling on all startups to complete our latest quick-and-confidential Atlantic Canadian startup survey, which is the backbone of our coming 2024 Entrevestor Atlantic Canada Startup Data report.
The startup report provides a benchmark used by
Happy Holidays to all our Readers.
We'd like to wish all our readers a happy holidays, and to say we hope you thrive in the new year.
We’re putting down the phones and shutting down the laptops for a few days, as we do every year at this time. We will begin reporting news again on