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Ng Eyes Governance Reform

  • Feb 10, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Sally Ng, Chief Operating Officer for newly created BIPOC industry group Tribe Network, has been nominated for the Women of the Year award from Ryerson University startup incubator the DMZ.

New this year, the award will honour International Women's

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Tomblin Murphy Heads NSHA Innovation Hub

  • Feb 09, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Nova Scotia Health Authority is launching its new Innovation Hub, which has a mandate to partner with the private sector on technology and research initiatives and is helmed by former Dalhousie University professor Gail Tomblin Murphy.

Tomblin

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A $65M Marine Biofuel Project

  • Feb 08, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

A consortium of companies – some backed by billionaire John Risley – has unveiled a $65 million project that aims to produce low-carbon marine fuel made out of waste from forestry and agriculture.

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Tuesday announced

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SDTC Backs 4 Atlantic Startups

  • Feb 08, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The federal government’s Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC, has announced that it will give $52.3 million in grants to a slate of companies whose technology could help the country meet its climate goals, with Atlantic startups

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KorrAI In Y Combinator, Raising Funds

  • Feb 07, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax’s KorrAI, which uses artificial intelligence to help assess satellite images of mining sites, has joined the latest cohort of Y Combinator, arguably the world’s most prestigious tech accelerator.

The AI company joined the accelerator’s

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Clever Fruit Joins Emergence

  • Feb 07, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Truro’s Clever Fruit Products, which is developing new berry-based food ingredients, has landed a spot in Emergence, the Atlantic Canadian bioscience incubator.

Founded in 2017 and led by President Liam Tayler and Executive Chairman Sean Sears,

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Supercluster Unveils $29M in Projects

  • Feb 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a basket of five projects worth a combined $29 million, of which the Supercluster will pay $12.52 million, with the participating companies spread across Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia.

CEO

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How Tranquility Exited to Green Shield

  • Feb 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

When health insurance giant Green Shield Canada bought virtual therapy startup Tranquility Online in August, the players stayed mum on the specifics of the deal. But at an event Thursday, Tranquility Co-Founder Joel Muise told the story of the

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Passiv Joins Y Combinator

  • Feb 03, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

In the past year, Fredericton fintech specialist Passiv has raised an $800,000 funding round, grown its assets under management to nearly $2 billion and been accepted into the globally recognized Y Combinator startup accelerator.

Passiv has

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Stemble Wins Gerry Pond Award

  • Feb 03, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Jason Pearson, Co-Founder of Charlottetown edtech startup Stemble, has won Propel’s 2022 Gerry Pond Sales Award, which comes with a $25,000 cash prize.

Stemble is developing e-learning software for post-secondary applications, particularly in the

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Dispension Launches in Philly

  • Feb 03, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Dartmouth’s Dispension Industries, which makes smart kiosks for dispensing pharmaceutical products and controlled substances, has installed two automated Narcan-dispensing kiosks in Philadelphia with plans to add eight more in the coming months.

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Concrete Ventures Books 2nd Exit

  • Feb 02, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Three years after it began investing in startups, Halifax’s Concrete Ventures has booked its second exit. Whitehorse-based Proof, which specialized in automating government processes, has been bought by Toronto’s Daylight.

Daylight Co-Founder and

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