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Melamoon Seeks Black Founders

  • Aug 07, 2025
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NB Report Calls for New IT Strategy

  • Aug 07, 2025
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PEI BioAlliance Names Lauren Ledwell CEO

  • Aug 06, 2025

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Melamoon Seeks Black Founders

  • Aug 07, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

The national Melamoon pitch contest is offering Black founders the chance to win $200,000 in prizes, mentorship, and national exposure.

Melamoon is a national opportunity for Black founders who are ready to scale, Halifax-based Tribe Network, a

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NB Report Calls for New IT Strategy

  • Aug 07, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

TechImpact, the New Brunswick-based IT advocacy group, has laid out a 10-year plan to increase the province’s tech revenues to $1.7 billion from under $1 billion today.  

Working with economist David Campbell of Jupia Consultants, the organization

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PEI BioAlliance Names Lauren Ledwell CEO

  • Aug 06, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Charlottetown-based PEI BioAlliance has appointed Lauren Ledwell its new Chief Executive Officer.

Ledwell brings extensive experience in business transformation, venture capital, and system innovation to the sector, the industry group said in a

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TLT Backs Eigen Innovations

  • Aug 06, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

TLT East Ventures, a new Atlantic Canadian venture capital fund, has invested in Fredericton-based Eigen Innovations, an industrial AI company that uses thermal imaging and AI to enhance real-time quality control in manufacturing.

TLT is led by

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Falling Walls Set for Sept. 15

  • Aug 05, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Falling Walls Lab Atlantic Canada will host a pitching event at the Halifax Central Library on Sept. 15, offering Atlantic Canadians an entry into the international Falling Walls competition.

Falling Walls Lab is an international pitch competition

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Mara Raises US$9.1M from S2G

  • Jul 30, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Mara Renewables, the Halifax company that produces omega-3 products from algae, has raised US$9.1 million (C$12.6 million) from S2G Investments to expand its production, sales and R&D capacity.

The company issued a press release last week

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Life Sciences, Medtech Showed Resilience in 2024

  • Jul 29, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canada’s life sciences and medtech sectors demonstrated resilience in 2024 with notable revenue growth, though equity funding for life sciences companies has fallen in recent years.

Today we’re highlighting the section of our 2024 Atlantic

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Weevva Accepted into IFH Lab

  • Jul 28, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Weevva, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup that helps landlords and tenants manage rentals with confidence, has been accepted into the 2025 cohort of the Innovate Financial Health Lab.

The IFH Lab is a national accelerator that supports startups

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Dispersa Says Expansion is Under Way

  • Jul 27, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Dispersa, a Laval, Que.-based cleantech company with a development team in Sydney, has posted that it is proceeding with expansion plans after closing a $5.8 million funding round earlier in the year.

Dispersa is developing “biosurfactants” derived

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Aruna Revolution Wins Big at StartupFest

  • Jul 23, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based Aruna Revolution, a women-led company that makes compostable sanitary products from plants, has won the $100,000 Impact Investment Prize at Startupfest 2025.

In Montreal last week, the well-known event that brings together

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Evolve Seeks Tech Founders

  • Jul 23, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

St. John’s-based innovation hub Genesis is seeking founders to participate in Evolve, a six-week program for early-stage tech founders. Entrepreneurs can join virtually or in person and will be helped to: 

* Clearly define the problem the startup

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7 Startups Join Scale-up Cambridge Phase Two

  • Jul 22, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Bounce Health Innovation, the Newfoundland and Labrador life sciences and medtech organization, has named seven companies that have graduated to Phase Two of the Scale-Up Cambridge program.

The program is designed to help leading Atlantic Canadian

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