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Modest Tree Inks Space Force Deal

  • Aug 21, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Modest Tree, a Halifax-based maker of extended-reality software, has won a contract with the United States Space Force, the extra-planetary branch of the country’s armed forces.

The company earned the deal by participating in the Space Force’s

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Ocean Supercluster Funds Wind Mapping

  • Aug 21, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a $1.8 million project led by Halifax-based SailTimer to produce crowd-sourced weather reporting both for and from sailboats.

SailTimer, helmed by President Craig Summers, is currently accepting pre-orders

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Atlantic Canadian VC Strong Despite National Headwinds

  • Aug 18, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The first half of 2022 was a strong period for Atlantic Canadian venture capital deals, buttressed by nearly record-breaking fundraising activity from Nova Scotia, according to data released Thursday by the Canadian Venture Capital and Private

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Seagrave to Head National Bio Group

  • Aug 17, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

BioNB CEO Meaghan Seagrave is leaving the New Brunswick organization to head up Bioindustrial Innovation Canada and its affiliated Sustainable Chemistry Alliance, which invests in early-stage life sciences companies.

Seagrave, who holds a master’s

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BUILD Applications Open

  • Aug 16, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Dalhousie University’s Emera ideaHUB incubator has opened applications for this year’s BUILD accelerator — a 10-month program meant to help deep tech startups develop and manufacture their products.

Companies in the program will have access to

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Potential’s First EV To Be Off-Road Camper

  • Aug 15, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton-based Potential Motors’ electric vehicle will be an off-road camper van that uses the company’s vehicle control software to identify and adapt to changes in terrain.

Chief Executive Sam Poirier said in March the vehicle will be a

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Ed Martin Named Director of MCE

  • Aug 14, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Ed Martin, former CEO at St. John’s-based edtech startup Zorbit’s Math, has been appointed Director of the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship at Memorial University.

As director of the MCE, Martin will lead an organization that has worked with

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Four Atlantic Companies Receive SDTC Funding

  • Aug 14, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The federal government’s Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC, has announced grants for four Atlantic Canadian startups: Hampstead, N.B.’s PLAEX Building Systems, and Halifax-based ZeroIN Foods, Drinkable Water Solutions and OceanSync

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Propel Names Traction and Growth Grads

  • Aug 11, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Atlantic Canada's IT accelerator Propel has announced seven graduate companies from the latest cohort of its Traction and Growth program.

The Traction and Growth program is meant for startups that have already completed Propel’s more basic Vision

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Virtual Hallway Books 500 Consults for NS Doctors

  • Aug 11, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Virtual Hallway has helped doctors to schedule more than 500 meetings with specialists through a pilot program with Nova Scotia Health’s Innovation Hub since the end of May.

The six-month program will evaluate whether the province should partner

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Hickey Out at Invest Nova Scotia

  • Aug 10, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Invest Nova Scotia Executive Chair Tom Hickey has resigned, citing other professional commitments, mere weeks after his appointment to helm the new amalgamation of Innovacorp and Nova Scotia Business Inc.

Progressive Conservative Premier Tim

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IBI Group Paid $5.7M for HotSpot

  • Aug 10, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

When IBI Group bought Fredericton transportation software-maker HotSpot in June for its recurring revenue business, the Toronto engineering and technology company agreed to pay a total of $5.74 million, regulatory filings reveal.

IBI paid $2.76

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