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Black Startup Project Gaining Traction

  • Oct 08, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

Awareness of the education and support offered free by the Black Startup Project is growing among BIPOC founders who are taking advantage of the training and mentoring available from the Halifax-based network.

Upcoming workshops will look at how to

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3 Takeaways from the World Ocean Summit

  • Oct 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Britain's leading global affairs magazine, The Economist, hosted its World Ocean Tech and Innovation Summit at the Halifax Convention Centre this week.

The event drew blue economy leaders from across Canada and around the world, including delegates

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Canada, U.K. Partner on Oceans Competition

  • Oct 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The Canadian and British governments are collaborating on a new bluetech innovation competition, with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency giving the Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia $275,000 to help run the program.

The competition will

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UNB’s Future of Innovation Event Set for Oct. 19

  • Oct 05, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

The entrepreneurial community at University of New Brunswick will hold its annual Future of Innovation Conference on Oct. 19, with a special focus on the future of work.

The J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship

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A Note to our Readers

  • Oct 05, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

As a remotely operated business, we rely on our home Internet  connection and we're now working without Internet. 

Our Internet connection was knocked out after Fiona hit and we're working to get it restored. Eastlink has told us we will likely be

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Kent Named Barrett Digital Entrepreneurship Chair

  • Oct 05, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The University of New Brunswick’s McKenna Institute has named Kenneth Kent as its first Barrett Chair in Entrepreneurship for Digital Transformation.

Kent is a longtime professor of computer science at UNB and heads up the Atlantic Canadian arm of

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Impactful Raises $1.7M, Piloting Tech

  • Oct 03, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

On the back of quietly raising an unannounced pre-seed round in January, Dartmouth’s Impactful Health R&D is conducting pilot projects with several major players in the fish processing and packaging industries.

Founded by biomaterials researcher

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“Reverse Pitch Event” Coming to Sydney

  • Oct 03, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Cape Breton’s Navigate Startup House is hosting a day-long “reverse pitch event” Oct. 13 that will see startups pitch their companies as if to investors, after which existing backers will explain why they bought in.

Dubbed Bring It Together, the

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Seed-Stage Companies at Entrevestor Live

  • Oct 03, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

We’re delighted to announce that  Entrevestor Live, our hybrid event on Oct. 20, will feature a panel discussion with four of the region's leading seed-stage companies, to be hosted by Business Development Bank of Canada Director Paul Ryan. 

While

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Energia Launches Fall 2022 Cohort

  • Oct 02, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Energia Ventures, an international tech accelerator operated by University of New Brunswick, has begun its fall 2022 cohort, whose five members include two from Atlantic Canada.

The free accelerator is based in Fredericton at UNB’s J. Herbert Smith

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Ring Rescue Launches Second Product

  • Oct 02, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Dartmouth’s Ring Rescue, which was founded to sell a system for removing stuck jewelry from people’s fingers, has launched a second product line, which it calls the Dolphin.

Ring Rescue’s first offering uses air pressure to shrink the swelling in a

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Supercluster Outlines Plans for Possible Second Mandate

  • Sep 29, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

With its five-year mandate set to expire next March, Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is applying to the federal government for a renewal of its funding as it aims to increase the size of the national ocean economy fivefold by 2035.

When it was created

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