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L2M-NSERC Fall Applications Open

  • May 12, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

Researchers are invited to apply for Lab2Market-NSERC, Canada’s first national research commercialization program.

Lab2Market, a program developed by several universities to commercialize research, has partnered with the Natural Sciences and

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Innovasea Unveils Tagless Fish Detection

  • May 11, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

Boston-based Innovasea has begun testing a new tagless technology that can detect, count and classify fish in real time using a combination of imaging sonar, optical cameras and artificial intelligence. 

The technology has been shown in early

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Drinkable Opening Pre-Orders, Raising $350K

  • May 11, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s Drinkable Water is opening pre-orders for its on-the-spot water quality testing device with deliveries scheduled to begin next April.

The launch comes as Drinkable looks to raise a $350,000 funding round to extend its runway while Chief

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Halibut PEI Sold to Norwegian Investors

  • May 11, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halibut P.E.I., a fish farm that had been leaning heavily on innovative, land-based aquaculture techniques, has been bought by Norway’s Amar Group four months after filing for bankruptcy.

The Norwegian private equity company, which specializes in

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JEDI Names Stanley Barnaby CEO

  • May 09, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The Joint Economic Development Initiative, an Indigenous organization that backs First Nations industry and entrepreneurs, has made acting CEO Stanley Barnaby’s job permanent.

Barnaby, 33, is already a JEDI veteran. He joined as an intern in 2015

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Tribe Network Readies Roadshow

  • May 08, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Tribe Network, which is a support organization for Black entrepreneurs and business owners in Atlantic Canada, is commencing its first Black Start-Up Project Roadshow — a series of networking events for Entrepreneurs of Colour.

With tour dates

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Innovation District Showcases IdeaHUB

  • May 08, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

The Halifax Innovation District has just posted an article on its website showcasing the Emera IdeaHUB – Dalhousie University’s incubator for hardware startups – and one of its resident companies, OceanSync Data Solutions.

The article – written by

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For Life Sciences Labour, Look to Upskilling: Observers

  • May 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Atlantic Canada’s life sciences startups face a labour crunch possibly even more complex than the one gripping the information technology sector, but short-term training and upskilling programs could offer a partial solution, observers say.

Vivian

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Maritime Launch Goes Public on Specialist Exchange

  • May 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Commercial spaceflight startup Maritime Launch Services has completed its reverse takeover of now-defunct merchant bank Jaguar Financial Corp., and in a departure from common practice, listed its shares on Toronto’s specialist NEO Exchange for

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Zen Bikes Bags $100K from SDTC

  • May 05, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s Zen Electric Bikes, which works with prominent Dalhousie University battery scientist Jeff Dahn, has won $100,000 of non-dilutive funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC.

Founded last year by battery scientists and

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Barcelona to Host Ocean Council HQ

  • May 04, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

In a deal that aims to make Barcelona a leading hub for the Blue Economy, the World Ocean Council has agreed that the 2022 Sustainable Ocean Summit and inaugural Global Blue Finance Summit will be held in Barcelona. 

The agreement with Barcelona

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PEI’s PayTic Raises $2.95M

  • May 04, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Charlottetown-based PayTic, whose product streamlines the back-office operations of payment companies, has raised $2.95 million in its initial funding round.

The company, which had previously been in stealth mode, issued its first press release on

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