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Appili to Spend US$1M on Covid Drug Trials

  • Sep 20, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax drugmaker Appili Therapeutics has raised US$1 million from FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical Co. to pay for ongoing clinical trials of the Japanese pharma giant’s favipiravir antiviral medication, which the two companies hope will prove useful in

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Union.Dev Bags ACOA, IRAP Funding

  • Sep 19, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s Union.Dev is deploying its pension-management software at a 30,000-person union in Ontario and has raised $310,000 of non-dilutive funding from NRC IRAP and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

The company’s software, dubbed the

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Collaborating to create great companies

  • Sep 19, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

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Two years ago at the University of New Brunswick, a group of faculty, students and alumni began to toss around an idea: could artificial intelligence (AI) help regulators trace the movement of cryptocurrencies and prevent crime? 

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Innovacorp Books $101M on Meta Exit

  • Sep 19, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp has cashed in on its investment in Metamaterials Inc., banking a gain of $101 million and making a return of almost 35 times.

Nova Scotia’s provincial venture capital Crown corporation invested a total of $3.1 million in 2015 and 2017 in

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Trip Ninja Closes

  • Sep 19, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Executives at Halifax travel scheduling startup Trip Ninja are shuttering the company, citing COVID-19’s protracted effects on the travel industry, as first reported by Huddle.

Founded in 2015 by CEO Andres Collart and Developer Rob Dumont, Trip

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Sparrow Raises $3.25M

  • Sep 16, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

After three years of stealthy research and development, Halifax’s Sparrow Biologic has raised $3.25 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by family offices Killick Capital and Klister Credit Corp., as it prepares to seek regulatory approval

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CacheFlo Bags Chamber of Commerce Deal

  • Sep 16, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax fintech startup CacheFlo has inked a distribution agreement with the Halifax Chamber of Commerce in a move CEO Stephanie Holmes-Winton expects to pave the way for similar deals with other chambers.

In an interview, Holmes-Winton said

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We’ve Reached a New Plateau in Funding

  • Sep 16, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

I presented our most recent startup data to a group of policymakers on Thursday, and the conclusion of the presentation demonstrated perfectly the theme of Entrevestor Live.

Entrevestor Live is a three-hour virtual conference we’re hosting on Oct.

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Bounce Grows To Help 40 Startups

  • Sep 15, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

A year into its second iteration, Newfoundland and Labrador medtech support organization Bounce Health Innovation is working with 40 young companies, many in new programs introduced by the group.

Bounce is a few years old and in mid-2020 it

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Evolution Accelerator Seeks Applicants

  • Sep 15, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Genesis startup hub has put out a call for applications for the fall cohort of its eight-week Evolution startup accelerator, with a September 22 deadline.

Genesis bills Evolution as a “pre-incubator” course meant to

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Create ‘Atlantic Bubble’ for Investment: Business Luminaries

  • Sep 14, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

A group of Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs and business development organizations have launched a campaign for the four Atlantic provinces to create an investment tax credit bubble that would permit out-of-province investors to qualify for credits

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Proposify Raises $13M

  • Sep 14, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax sales software maker Proposify has raised $13 million from provincial venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp and the Canadian Business Growth Fund -- an investment fund backed by major financial institutions, including Royal Bank of

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