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CoLab Closes US$72M Series C Round

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Dal Innovates Seeks Collide Applicants

  • Jan 12, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Dal Innovates has opened applications for the winter cohort of its Collide training program for budding entrepreneurs.

Aimed specifically at university students, the Collide program promises to teach participants the basics of customer discovery

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ReelData Raises US$8M

  • Jan 11, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

ReelData, the Halifax company that makes artificial intelligence for land-based aquaculture, has raised a US$8 million (C$10.7 million) Series A funding round as it looks to commercialize its second product offering next quarter.

ReelData’s first

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Cleantech Event Set for Fredericton Feb. 23

  • Jan 11, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and provincial business development agency Opportunities New Brunswick will host their R3 climatetech summit in-person this February at the Fredericton Convention Centre.

The R3 – Connecting for Climate

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WeUsThem Spins Off HealthEMe

  • Jan 11, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

WeUsThem, the Halifax ad agency, has spun off its software business unit into a new startup, HealthEMe, which is raising a roughly $1 million seed round.

HealthEMe’s first product is imTEEN, which was originally released by WeUsThem and allows

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Research NS Receives $25M

  • Jan 10, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Research Nova Scotia, the provincial nonprofit that helps fund and coordinate scientific work, is getting a tidy boost to its budget.

About a $25 million boost, more specifically. Since Research Nova Scotia’s founding in 2019, it has received a

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Summer Institute, Energia Ventures Seek Applicants

  • Jan 10, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre is looking for applicants to two of its startup accelerator programs, Energia Ventures and The Summer Institute.

Now in its seventh year of operation, Energia Ventures supports startups from

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Atlantic Women’s Angel Fund to Back Female Founders

  • Jan 08, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Atlantic Canada is getting a new regional angel group.

The newly formed Atlantic Women’s Angel Fund was inspired partly by managing partner Andrea King’s experience on the board of the non-profit Atlantic Women’s Venture Foundation, which was

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Precision BioLogic Wins FDA Approval

  • Jan 08, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Precision BioLogic, a Dartmouth medtech company that sells diagnostic testing supplies, has received United States Food and Drug Administration approval for its product for the bleeding disorder Hemophilia B.

The Hemophilia test, also recently

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The Stories We’ll Be Watching in 2023

  • Jan 06, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The startup community is entering 2023 on uncertain footing, with a faltering global economy and contracting venture capital markets raising questions about young companies’ near-term prospects.

But an evolving startup support ecosystem and

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Iron Fox Fast Off the Line

  • Jan 04, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

In the space of just eight months, Charlottetown video game developer Iron Fox Games has grown to have a staff of 21 people and is already running in the black.

Founded by industry veterans Ryan Filsinger and Chris Gallant, who previously developed

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Invest NS Seeks Early Stage Commercialization Applicants

  • Jan 04, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to its Early Stage Commercialization Fund for university research, rolling over a program from the days of Innovacorp.

The fund offers startups up to $50,000 for assessing their products’ market

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UNB to Build Health Innovation Centre

  • Jan 04, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The University of New Brunswick will build a new, $38 million Health and Social Innovation Centre at its Saint John campus as part of the provincial government’s larger bid to revamp its flagging healthcare system with the help of innovative

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