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Luminultra Shines at Business Awards

  • Jun 06, 2022
  • Ryan Bellefontaine

Biological diagnostic testing company LuminUltra Technologies was a double winner at the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce's Business Excellence Awards, held last week for the first time in two years.

LuminUltra won the Large Business Award and its

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H2O Conference Set for June 13-16

  • Jun 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia’s annual H2O Conference will be held this year from June 13 to 16 at the Halifax Convention Centre, with several attractions relevant to the startup community.

The event will include a panel on skilled

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Clever Fruit Joins Tasmanian Accelerator

  • Jun 05, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based Clever Fruit Products, which uses fermentation to produce fruit-based food supplements, will be one of 10 companies to participate in Australia’s FoodTech Tasmania accelerator as it looks to diversify its product offerings.

Clever

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PragmaClin Wins $47K from Bounce

  • Jun 05, 2022
  • Ryan Bellefontaine

PragmaClin, a St. John’s company that is developing software that lets Parkinson’s patients assess their condition at home, won $47,500 in the first ever Bounce Health Innovation Embryo Grants competition.

Bounce, the organization that supports

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Delicious Brains Sells IP

  • Jun 02, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Truro software developer Delicious Brains has sold a raft of its intellectual property to Austin, Texas-based WP Engine.

The deal includes five WordPress plugins — pieces of software that enhance website design tool WordPress — that collectively

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NBIF Event to Showcase AI in NB

  • Jun 02, 2022
  • Ryan Bellefontaine

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation this month will host a conference to encourage the adoption of artificial intelligence in the province.

The conference titled R3: Accelerating AI Innovation will take place at the Delta Hotels Beausejour in

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HotSpot Sale Targets International Growth

  • Jun 01, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The sale of Fredericton transportation software-maker HotSpot to Toronto engineering and technology company IBI Group grew out of repeated collaborations between the two businesses that highlighted their potential for resource sharing, according to

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EY Names Atlantic EoY Finalists

  • Jun 01, 2022
  • Ryan Bellefontaine

EY Canada has nominated 17 businesses, including several members of the innovation community, in the Atlantic division of the 2022 Entrepreneur of the Year competition.

The global consultancy used to announce regional nominees and winners in

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PEI Life Sciences Could Employ 3K by 2025

  • May 31, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

In its latest labour market white paper, the PEI BioAlliance predicts that Prince Edward Island’s life sciences cluster will employ 3,000 people by 2025 and lays out its plans to create an HR Excellence Initiative to advocate for HR best practices. 

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Mara’s Raise Backed by Strong Financials

  • May 31, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Mara Renewables Corp., which makes nutritional products from algae, raised the largest funding round in Atlantic Canada so far this year on the back of standout revenue growth, with plans to expand its suite of intellectual property, according to

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CandidateHub Targets UK,  Raising $500K

  • May 31, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Riverview, N.B. recruitment automation startup CandidateHub.io is expanding into the British market and hopes to close a $500,000 capital raise within the next three to six months.

CEO Brad DiPaolo said in an interview that he and co-founder

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Mara Renewables Raises $39.5M

  • May 29, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Mara Renewables Corp., which makes algae-based ingredients for nutritional supplements, baby formula and food, has raised the largest funding round so far this year for an Atlantic Canadian startup: a $39.5 million deal led by Toronto specialist VC

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