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BreatheSuite Launches in Atlantic Canada

  • Jul 11, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

St. John's-based medtech startup BreatheSuite has announced the Atlantic Canadian launch of its product for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or COPD, patients, and sweetening the offering with one-on-one coaching.

CEO Brett Vokey,

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Venn Launches the Junction in Moncton

  • Jul 11, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

The Junction, a new downtown 16,000 square-foot innovation centre in Moncton, has been opened by startup hub Venn Innovation, which describes it as the largest tech-focused facility of its kind in New Brunswick.

“Today, we are opening a place where

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Supercluster To Offer Bluetech Mentorship

  • Jul 10, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is launching a mentorship program aimed at helping underrepresented groups find employment opportunities in the ocean economy.

The Supercluster, whose five-year mandate ends next year, is best known for funding

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NB Data Talk Set for July 14

  • Jul 07, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Entrevestor journalists Peter Moreira and Avery Mullen will share findings from our 2021 Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report in a live event at the Cyber Centre in Fredericton’s Knowledge Park July 14.

Our report is the benchmark source of data

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Avanade to Open Halifax Office

  • Jul 07, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Avanade, the Seattle company that helps enterprise clients upgrade and manage their computer systems using Microsoft technology and infrastructure, plans to hire 300 people in Halifax over the next two years.

Founded in 2000 as a joint venture

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UNB TME To Host 3 Events

  • Jul 06, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

The University of New Brunswick’s TME team will host three events in the next two weeks that will showcase a range of companies going through its programs.

The TME group – whose official name is the J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology,

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MARS VR Joins Standards Group

  • Jul 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s MARS VR Lab, which is developing a virtual reality hardware and software suite that gamifies the process of teaching children how to operate motorized wheelchairs, has joined the council that will set industry standards for the metaverse.

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UNB Eyes Doubling Computer Science Students

  • Jul 05, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The University of New Brunswick is looking to double the number of students in its Faculty of Computer Science by 2026, spurred partly by the information technology labour shortage and partly by its goal of improving tech sector opportunities for

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2022 BioInnovation Challenge Announced

  • Jul 05, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Nova Scotia life sciences industry group BioNova is looking for startups to compete in its twelfth annual BioInnovation Challenge pitch competition, or BIC, to be held in-person this year after temporarily going virtual.

The region's premier life

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VLife-Halifax Partnership Deal Bears Fruit

  • Jul 04, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s vLife, an online advertising platform for local businesses, has seen its customer count nearly double during the pandemic, thanks partly to a deal with the Halifax Partnership.

VLife Chief Executive Melanie Little said in an interview

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StartBlue Applications Close July 8

  • Jul 04, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

There are just three days left to apply for the second annual cohort of ocean-focused startups in the StartBlue accelerator, being offered in Southern California.  

StartBlue is a bluetech accelerator led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and

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Gulf Blue Navigator Open

  • Jul 03, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

Oceantech startups are invited to apply to the Gulf Blue Navigator, a new accelerator recently launched by SeaAhead and the University of Southern Mississippi Research Foundation. 

The Gulf Blue Navigator is for global post-pilot companies seeking

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