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Emergence Lands $2.6M in ACOA Funding

  • Mar 17, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Charlottetown’s Emergence Bioscience Business Incubator has received a $2.6 million grant from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to support the delivery of Emergence 4.0 by BioAlliance.

The PEI BioAlliance is the private sector-led

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With New Capital, Remsoft Buys Lim Geomatics

  • Mar 17, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based Remsoft has secured a strategic investment from an American private equity fund, which is funding its acquisition of Ottawa-based Lim Geomatics, a forestry software innovator.

The New Brunswick company, which uses data analytics

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Dragons’ Den Coming to Planet Hatch

  • Mar 13, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Fredericton entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch is hosting Dragons’ Den and inviting founders to apply to pitch.  

Dragons’ Den is a running popular show on CBC where founders pitch their businesses to seasoned entrepreneurs and investors in the hope

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Energia Ventures Marks 12th Cohort

  • Mar 12, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Fredericton-based Energia Ventures has announced the latest five ventures to participate in its program for innovative companies working in fields that include biotechnology, construction, recruitment, and AI.

Based at the University of New

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Picketa Adds Canola to its LENS Platform

  • Mar 12, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Fredericton agtech company Picketa Systems has announced the addition of canola to its LENS (Leaf Evaluated Nutrient System) platform. Building on past success with potatoes and corn, Picketa is expanding its support of staple broadacre crops to

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Tenera Care Closes $7.4M Round

  • Mar 12, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Tenara Care on Tuesday announced the closing of a $7.4 million funding round led by Build Ventures and Export Development Canada.

The company, whose system uses wearable devices to track the movements of seniors in residential care

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Tribe Offers Tariff Supports

  • Mar 10, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Tribe Network, the region’s support hub for BIPOC founders, is offering advice for founders to help them navigate U.S. President Trump’s new tariffs.

“With the latest developments surrounding U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports, we

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Volta Names Cape Breton Growth Coach

  • Mar 10, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Shrilakshmi (Shri) Subramanian has joined the team at startup hub Volta as Growth Coach based in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Subramanian brings over 17 years of experience across the AI and emerging technologies space to her new role, the group said in a

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ACOA Supports Freshr Technologies

  • Mar 09, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based sustainable packaging company Freshr Technologies has received a loan of $498,750 from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to expand and improve its operations.

Freshr Technologies develops and manufactures a naturally derived

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NPC backs Chinova Bioworks, ALT-PRO Advantage

  • Mar 06, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Fredericton-based Chinova Bioworks and Nova Scotia/Ontario-based ALT-PRO Advantage are among seven early-stage companies to receive a total of $1.7 million from Natural Products Canada.

The funding is intended to help the companies address key

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SimplyCast, Pico Public Cloud Sign MOU

  • Mar 06, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth’s SimplyCast, whose platform helps companies to consolidate and automate their marketing efforts and communications, has signed an MOU with Pico Public Cloud, a technology provider in Bangladesh.

The collaboration provides organizations

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Aeon Blue Eyes $10M Seed Round

  • Mar 05, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Aeon Blue, the Cape Breton green fuel and carbon capture startup, is halfway through its bridge round, and is planning a seed round with the goal of becoming fully operational by 2027.

Based in Sydney River, Aeon Blue specializes in the production

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