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B-Line Joins REACH Accelerator

  • Apr 07, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

On the back of launching its living lab at the Port of Halifax’s PIER innovation centre, building management startup B-Line has been accepted into the National Association of Realtors’ REACH scale-up program in the U.S.

REACH and its sister

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Dal, UPEI in Protein Supercluster deal

  • Apr 07, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

The industry group Eastern Canada Oilseed Development Alliance, or ECODA, and supercluster Protein Industries Canada have inked a deal with Dalhousie University and the University of Prince Edward Island to research plant protein-based food

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Innovatia Sells Accelerator Unit

  • Apr 06, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Saint John-based Innovatia Accelerator, which makes software for information management and communication in industrial settings, has been acquired by Swedish automation and remote monitoring giant Hexagon AB for an undisclosed price.

Innovatia is

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Harbr, Introhive Find International Partners

  • Apr 05, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Two Atlantic Canadian startups have inked collaboration deals with foreign companies: Halifax construction fintech specialist Harbr and Fredericton- and Miami-based sales software-maker Introhive.

Introhive sells artificial intelligence technology

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Villaumé Named New CEO of TechNL

  • Apr 05, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

After six years leading the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, Florian Villaumé has been selected as the new CEO for techNL, the Newfoundland and Labrador association for digital industries.

The techNL board’s search committee had been working

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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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