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Picketa Launches in 13 States

  • Jul 03, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton-based Picketa Systems, maker of the LENS hardware and software suite for analyzing plant tissues, has launched its product in 13 American states, mostly in the country’s bread basket region.

Initially designed for use on potato crops,

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Triple Hair Raises $4M

  • Jul 03, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

A pharmaceutical startup aiming to treat Androgenetic Alopecia, a type of genetic hair loss, has raised a $4 million funding round that included the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

Founded in 2013 by Dr. Houfar Sekhavat and pharmacist Peter

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Invest NS Seeks Accelerate Applicants

  • Jul 03, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Invest Nova Scotia is seeking applicants for this year's second cohort of its Accelerate startup program.

Accelerate offers companies four months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding, as well as weekly one-on-one coaching

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Innerlogic raises $1.3M

  • Jun 27, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Techstars alum innerlogic, which is developing a software and AI suite to automate employee feedback for enterprise clients, has closed a $1.3 million funding round to support product and business development.

Founders Bryce Tully and Mike Bawol

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Kempaiah Joins Entrevestor Live

  • Jun 27, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

We’re pleased to report that a new panelist has joined the Entrevestor Live lineup: Zen Electric CEO Ravindra Kempaiah.

On Sept. 17 at Volta, Kempaiah — whose company is developing battery systems for the very small two- and three-wheeled vehicles

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Four Healthtech Startups Leveraging Software

  • Jun 26, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Information technology businesses are not just the largest group of startups in Atlantic Canada. They dwarf every other sector, accounting for almost two-thirds of all East Coast startups at the end of 2023. If there is a challenger for the most

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Stethophone Adds AI

  • Jun 25, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

St. John's-based Sparrow Bioacoustics has launched Version 3 of its stethoscope app, now integrating AI analysis, with the company releasing it first in Ukraine.

The move builds on a pilot program that has involved Ukrainian cardiology clinics

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Envisioning a New Atlantic Angel Network

  • Jun 23, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Claudio Rojas, the CEO of NACO Canada, flew into Fredericton on Thursday to discuss solutions to the decline in angel funding in Atlantic Canada.

Rojas was attending the launch of Entrevestor’s 2023 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report at an event

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Raymex Lift Plans Regulatory Bid

  • Jun 21, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

When Tracy McGillivray and Liam Maaskant set out to design a better mobility aid in the fall of 2019, they split up and conducted their ideation work separately. When they reconvened two weeks later, they discovered they had arrived at nearly the

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Our 2023 Data Report Launches Today

  • Jun 20, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

The East Coast startup community experienced record numbers of company launches and failures last year while most of the best continued to grow strongly, says Entrevestor’s 2023 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report, which we’re launching today.

Our

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TrojAI Expands in Fredericton

  • Jun 20, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Two months after it raised a US$5.75 million or C$7.77 million funding round, Saint John cybersecurity startup TrojAI has roughly tripled its presence in Fredericton with the opening of a new office in the city.

Founded by James Stewart and Stephen

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CM Marine Aims for Better Life Jacket

  • Jun 19, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

In the 1960s, Cape Breton fisherman Floyd Mackenzie nearly drowned in an accident that ultimately claimed the life of a different crew member.

Mackenzie and his “hired man,” Ernest Brown, were jumping from their fishing boat into a dory. The

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