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Partners Unveil STEM Indigenous Youth Program
Dalhousie University-based SuperNOVA, along with Acadia First Nation and Ulnooweg Education Centre have announced their first STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) program for Indigenous youth.
The August program will see 20 high
Wagner Looks Back at CarbonCure Tenure
Jennifer Wagner posted on social media last week that she is stepping away from Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, where she has served as President for several years.
We asked Wagner a few questions about her tenure at CarbonCure and what
Fractional Finance Raises $500K
Halifax-based Fractional Finance has raised about $500,000 for its new, blockchain-driven platform that’s designed to change the way people invest in real estate.
The company’s first product is called the Frabric, which allows users to buy into
Al-Otumi Leaving Shiftkey
Well-known Halifax-based entrepreneur and educator Akram Al-Otumi is leaving Shiftkey Labs, the software innovation sandbox, and moving to a new position as a Catalyst Project Director with Toronto-based SVX.
Since 2019, Shiftkey Labs has hosted
Startup Observers on Overcoming Recruitment Barriers
In the wake of a PEI BioAlliance white paper that described systemic barriers to recruiting life sciences talent from outside Atlantic Canada, startup community observers say the same stumbling blocks exist for information technology companies
Regional Partnership in Bio Trials
The four Atlantic provinces have launched a new initiative to collaborate on clinical trials for medtech and pharmaceutical research, dubbed the Atlantic Clinical Trials Network, or ACTN.
Health authorities from each province, along with industry
Karina LeBlanc Leaving PDC
Karina LeBlanc, Executive Director of the Fredericton-based Pond Deshpande Centre is leaving her role at the head of the socially conscious group after 10 years with the organization.
PDC is part of the University of New Brunswick and was
Coding Boot Camp, SkillsBuild Programs Unveiled
The University of New Brunswick, its new McKenna Institute and TechImpact have announced two initiatives to help prepare New Brunswickers for the growing employment opportunities in information technology.
The first is a new Coding Boot Camp. The
BioVectra on Track for $1B in Revenue: Communitech
Charlottetown’s BioVectra, which manufactures pharmaceutical ingredients and is owned by Miami-based private equity firm H.I.G. Capital, has been included in Waterloo incubator Communitech’s inaugural Team True North list of startups that are on
Atlantic Canada Passed Over in Startup Genome Rankings
For the third year in a row, Atlantic Canada has failed to rank among the world’s top 100 emerging startup ecosystems in The Global Startup Ecosystem Report from Startup Genome, the Silicon Valley group that assesses innovation communities.
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Lazaridis Institute Seeks Scale-ups
The Lazaridis Institute at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo is looking for 10 companies to join its next cohort of the Lazaridis ScaleUp program, which helps promising Canadian companies to increase their revenues.
Through the program,
Data Shows Two-Tier Startup Community
A troubling divergence has developed in the Atlantic Canadian startup community as early-stage companies have difficulty launching even as their elder comrades grow rapidly.
This is the main conclusion of the 2021 Atlantic Canada Startup Data