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Ready2Launch Readies for Launch

  • Mar 15, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Dalhousie University has opened applications for the third cohort of its Ready2Launch accelerator for Atlantic Canadian university students and recent graduates looking to commercialize their academic research.

The three-month program for

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PEI BioAlliance Opens Manufacturing Incubator for 6 Companies

  • Mar 14, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

As the PEI BioAlliance industry group looks to expand the province’s biotech manufacturing capacity, it has opened a new $6.5 million Biomanufacturing Incubator with room for six companies in the BioCommons Research Park in Charlottetown.

The

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Thanks for Sending in Surveys

  • Mar 14, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Thank you to all the founders and CEOs – all 120 of ‘em -- who took the time to fill in our survey in the past two weeks.

Because of your assistance, we’re announcing today that we’ll donate $1200 to the Canadian Mental Health Association -- $10

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Innovasea Rolls Out Sensor Suite in Newfoundland

  • Mar 13, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Innovasea, the Halifax- and Boston-based company that monitors conditions in aquaculture pens, is rolling out a full suite of monitoring equipment at an aquaculture site in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, as part of a $27 million Ocean

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Ocean Startup Project Calls for Sustainable Ideas

  • Mar 13, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

The Ocean Startup Project, a national organization focused on boosting bluetech, is looking for participants for its Ocean Idea Challenge, a competition that connects aspiring entrepreneurs with potential co-founders and encourages them to identify

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Pond-Deshpande Becomes Revenue-Driven

  • Mar 13, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

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As it celebrates its 10th anniversary, the Pond-Deshpande Centre (PDC) at the University of New Brunswick is completing its transition to a new business model, which allows it to maintain its focus on pressing social issues.

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Kognitiv Spark Raises $4.7M

  • Mar 10, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Kognitiv Spark, the Fredericton maker of augmented reality software, has raised $4.7 million from London-based Foresight Group and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation as it aims to expand its push into the British and American markets.

Lead

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18 Join Innovacorp Accelerate

  • Mar 10, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Innovacorp, Nova Scotia’s venture capital Crown corporation, has announced 18 companies joining its five Innovacorp Accelerate streams: bluetech, healthtech, agtech, cleantech and software.

The participating companies, which have sales of less than

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Novonix Borrows $1M For Burnside Facility

  • Mar 09, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Novonix Battery Testing Solutions, which emerged from research conducted at Dalhousie University by Jeff Dahn, is receiving a $1 million loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to buy specialized equipment for its production facility in

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Innovacorp Invested $9.7M in 20-21

  • Mar 09, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp made a total of $9.7 million in venture capital investments in its 2021 fiscal year, as the Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency ramped up investment.

The provincial Crown corporation, whose fiscal year ends March

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Outcast Eyes U.S. Expansion

  • Mar 08, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

With production at its new Burlington, Ontario, facility underway and a newly hired Chief Financial Officer, a United States expansion is next on the horizon for  Halifax’s Outcast Foods.

Founded by Darren Burke and TJ Galiardi in 2017, Outcast

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Let’s Donate $1500 to Mental Health?

  • Mar 08, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Congrats to Atlantic Canadian startup founders! You've helped to ensure our fundraising for the Canadian Mental Health Association will surpass $1,000 this year. 

But it's not enough. 

As of Tuesday night, we had received 100 responses to our

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