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Elle, MD Biotechnologies Wins NBIF Contest

  • Jun 05, 2025
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CEO Casey To Leave Volta

  • Apr 04, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Volta CEO Martha Casey will step down this month after almost two years in the role, rejoining former collaborator Richard Florizone at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, or IISD, as Vice-President of Operations and

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NBIF Funds 3 AI Projects

  • Apr 04, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced $1 million of investments in a trio of artificial intelligence research and development projects via its Strategic Acceleration program for ongoing research projects.

The three university-based

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CarbonCure, Precision Honoured by Halifax Chamber

  • Apr 03, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Medtech company Precision BioLogic and cleantech star CarbonCure Technologies have been honoured at the Halifax Chamber of Commerce’s 2022 Halifax Business Awards. CarbonCure won Innovative Business of the Year and Precision BioLogic won the

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Cape Breton Capital Opens Its Doors

  • Apr 01, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

A group of 26 Cape Breton investors have pooled $1.3 million of their personal money to form the island’s first venture capital fund, Cape Breton Capital Group.

General Partner Todd Mercer, who runs residential oil supply company Mercer Fuels, said

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$2M Raise To Fund Dear Life’s Pivot

  • Mar 30, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

A $2 million capital raise by Halifax’s Dear Life will go towards developing an online platform to automatically comb through users’ raw video clips and edit them into compilations, according to company President Harrison Smith.

The funding round

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COVE To Host Ocean Connector

  • Mar 30, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Dartmouth's Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship’s will host an Ocean Connector event Thursday, that will include a panel on the bluetech startup ecosystem.

The panelists will be moderator Mohammad Ali Raza, Eric Siegel, Peter Moreira and

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Dal to Launch Scientific Research Program

  • Mar 27, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Dal Innovates, the innovation arm of Dalhousie University, plans to launch the Scientific Venture Program this autumn, rounding out a suite of programs designed to develop entrepreneurial thinking.

The program will help people working on

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Innovation District Showcases Ecosystem

  • Mar 27, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

The Halifax Innovation District has begun a series of articles that show how Halifax entrepreneurs are using the city’s startup ecosystem to develop their businesses.

The first two articles, which detail how companies receive support from Volta and

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PragmaClin Wins Woodward Cup

  • Mar 25, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based PragmaClin Research has won first place and $25,000 in Memorial University’s annual Mel Woodward Cup, as Co-Founders Bronwyn Bridges and Gord Genge prepare to trial their software and hardware suite for helping Parkinson’s patients.

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ELi Adds Verified Moble Location to 911

  • Mar 24, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

With emergency services organizations recovering from two years spent operating in a state of crisis, the chief executive of Halifax startup ELi Technology believes the time is right for a major sales push.

Peter Woodford founded ELi in 2017 and

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Research Funding Began Pandemic on Solid Footing

  • Mar 23, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Though two years of pandemic have disrupted academic life, there is some consolation in knowing that Atlantic Canada's leading research universities entered the pandemic with strong funding levels for research.

While classes moved online, the

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Potential Motors Readies Electric Off-Roader

  • Mar 23, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton’s Potential Motors is preparing to build and sell its own electric off-road vehicle in a bid to demonstrate the value of its control system software, with a prototype already built and set to be publicly revealed next quarter.

Chief

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