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Breathing Green, Nature’s Way Partner

  • Jun 27, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Health product-maker Nature’s Way Canada will partner with Wentworth, N.S.-based cannabis producer Breathing Green Solutions to launch a new supplement containing Omega 3 oil and CBD oil.

Dubbed Briight CBD, the product is the result of Nature’s

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COVE Seeks Survey Responses from Bluetech Companies

  • Jun 27, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Dartmouth’s Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship is looking for bluetech startups to fill out a survey for its 2022 Ocean Enterprise stud. The deadline is 5:00 p.m. AST on July 7.

The report, which is published every two years, aims to

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Meta Raising Another US$50M

  • Jun 26, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Dartmouth-based Meta Materials Inc., which specializes in producing synthetic materials for industrial applications, has announced a plan to raise US$50 million or about C$64 million by selling additional shares.

Meta’s stock, which trades on the

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RPS Signs Chilean Distribution Deal

  • Jun 26, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Charlottetown’s RPS Biologiques has signed an exclusive distribution deal with pharmaceutical and life sciences specialist Agrovet Chile to distribute RPS’s treatment for sea lice on farmed salmon.

In a press release, RPS said it expects the

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Who Attended the CDL Super Session?

  • Jun 23, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Nineteen companies from the two Creative Destruction Labs programs in Atlantic Canada this week joined the annual CDL Super Session, the program’s annual international summit.

The Toronto event, which featured companies that graduated from the 10

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Need Talent? Try an Arts Grad

  • Jun 23, 2022
  • Ryan Bellefontaine and Peter Moreira

A year ago, Emma Faulkner was worried her 12,000-word thesis on women’s rights and education in 18th Century England might not be the educational milestone that tech startups were looking for in a potential employee.

She was wrapping up her Masters

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GIT Partners with Eastern Pacific

  • Jun 22, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based Graphite Innovation and Technologies has formed a strategic partnership with Eastern Pacific Shipping under which the Singapore-based shipping line will apply GIT’s protective coating to its ships.

The two companies issued a press

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Ocean Startup Challenge Opens

  • Jun 22, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

Applications have opened for the third Ocean Startup Challenge, which will offer idea- and early-stage bluetech startups up to $40,000 each, as well as specialized training, mentorship, networking, and events. 

Organized by the Ocean Startup

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Dal innovates Wins Global Award

  • Jun 22, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

Dalhousie University has won international recognition for its work facilitating the transition of student and researcher innovations into commercially viable products and services.  

Its Dal Innovates program is one of two winners of the Deshpande

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Meta To Buy Optodot IP for US$45.8M

  • Jun 21, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based Meta Materials Inc., which specializes in producing synthetic materials, is acquiring the assets and intellectual property of Devens, Mass.-based Optodot Corp., which signals a move into next-generation battery materials.

Meta,

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Archibald Reveals Swell Exit

  • Jun 21, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Swell Advantage, the Halifax company that made software for marinas, quietly exited in the last year and a half with the sale to the American company Oasis Marinas Management.

Iaian Archibald said in an interview last week that he and Co-Founder

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Tech Program Helps Up-skill and re-skill Workers

  • Jun 21, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

Designed to address the region’s demand for skilled workers in web development and data analytics, industry group Digital Nova Scotia and Bluedrop ISM have launched Skills for Hire Atlantic for tech enthusiasts looking to re-skill and up-skill.

Up

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