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Kognitiv Spark Launches RemoteSpark 2.0

  • Feb 21, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton-based Kognitiv Spark has launched a sweeping revision of its main product offering that it says includes more robust spatial computing abilities, referring to the process of visualizing a digitally rendered object in a real-world

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CarbonCure’s Wagner Joins Breakthrough Energy Ventures

  • Feb 20, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Jennifer Wager, formerly the president of Dartmouth cleantech star CarbonCure Technologies, has a new role as a fellow at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a VC firm led by such business titans as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg.

Wagner,

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Tribe Network Seeks Applicants

  • Feb 20, 2023
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Tribe Network is inviting Black founders aiming to bring a basic product to market to apply to its BUILD program, which begins mid-March.

Founded in 2021 by social entrepreneur Alfred Burgesson, Tribe offers support and training

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Kinduct Buyer Goes Public Via SPAC

  • Feb 16, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Nevada-based Movella, which makes motion-tracking technology and bought Halifax’s Kinduct in 2020, has gone public on the Nasdaq stock exchange via a reverse acquisition.

Movella, at the time called mCube, bought Kinduct and its health data

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Cleantech Accelerator Coming to East Coast

  • Feb 16, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax business consultancy Imaginal Ventures and British Columbia-based national cleantech accelerator Foresight Canada are collaborating to launch Foresight’s eight-month accelerator program in the Atlantic Provinces.

Participating companies in

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Canadian Bluetech at Oceanology International Conference

  • Feb 15, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Canada has sent a deep roster of oceantech industry members and ecosystem support players to this year's Oceanology International Americas conference in San Diego, which is underway this week.

Twenty Canadian exhibitors — many of them startups, and

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Tidal Venture Partners Backs Discovery Centre

  • Feb 14, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s Tidal Venture Partners has pledged to donate a portion of its profits to the Discovery Centre science museum, also in Halifax, in a move that looks to be aimed at least partly at increasing the talent pipeline for STEM jobs in Atlantic

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GIT, KOTUG Canada Enter Sales Deal

  • Feb 14, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based Graphite Innovation and Technologies has begun applying its environmentally friendly, fuel-saving marine hull coatings to the ships of maritime services company KOTUG Canada.

GIT has applied its coatings to more than 20 vessels now,

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CandidateHub Readies Healthcare Push

  • Feb 13, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Riverview, N.B. recruitment automation startup CandidateHub.io is eyeing sales to private healthcare facilities in the United States after receiving $50,000 from Kaleidoscope Social Impact, a Saint John-based social impact investor that offers loans

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Beauceron Raised $3M Last Summer

  • Feb 13, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Last summer, Fredericton-based cybersecurity startup Beauceron Security quietly raised an oversubscribed $3.1 million equity funding round that included strategic investors from the world of community banking.

The round was led by Utah-based

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Doris Grant Named BioNova VP

  • Feb 12, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Nova Scotia industry group BioNova has appointed Doris Grant, formerly a high-ranking Nova Scotia Health Authority civil servant, as its vice president of business development and strategy.

At the NSHA, Grant was senior director of innovation,

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PEI BioAlliance Announces $50M BioAccelerator

  • Feb 12, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

A $50 million funding package to create a new BioAccelerator life sciences hub on Prince Edward Island, announced Friday, is set to become the largest single investment in economic development infrastructure in the province’s history.

Spearheaded

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