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Kognitiv Spark Launches RemoteSpark 2.0
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
CarbonCure’s Wagner Joins Breakthrough Energy Ventures
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,
Tribe Network Seeks Applicants
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
Kinduct Buyer Goes Public Via SPAC
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
Cleantech Accelerator Coming to East Coast
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
Canadian Bluetech at Oceanology International Conference
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
Tidal Venture Partners Backs Discovery Centre
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
GIT, KOTUG Canada Enter Sales Deal
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,
CandidateHub Readies Healthcare Push
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
Beauceron Raised $3M Last Summer
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
Doris Grant Named BioNova VP
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,
PEI BioAlliance Announces $50M BioAccelerator
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.
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