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3D BioFibR Preps Collagen Product

  • Jul 18, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

You really get an idea of how cool 3D BioFibR is when CEO Kevin Sullivan starts talking about bulletproof T-shirts.

Halifax-based 3D BioFibR aims to produce commercial quantities of nature’s “strongest, lightest and toughest” materials. The company

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GSTS Expands Testing Consortium

  • Jul 15, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Dartmouth-based Global Spatial Technology Systems, which is developing cloud software for analyzing and predicting the movements of ships, has added three new members to its OCIANA Port Optimization Consortium -- a group of ports and marine industry

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Three Pitch Competitions Coming Soon

  • Jul 15, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Three Atlantic Canadian startup support organizations will hold pitch competitions in the coming weeks: Halifax’s Volta, Moncton’s Venn Innovation and St. John's-based Genesis.

Startup incubator Volta will hold its quarterly pitch competition on

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Five Companies Pitch at Summer Institute

  • Jul 15, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

The University of New Brunswick held the virtual demo day Thursday for its Summer Institute accelerator, with five companies pitching.

Most startup accelerators teach lean methodology to innovation-driven businesses. The Summer Institute takes a

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Survey Reveals Struggles of Black Female Founders

  • Jul 14, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Black female entrepreneurs have particular difficulty accessing funding, although many are highly educated and their ventures are growing, a national survey has found.

The FoundHERs survey, conducted by market research firm Pitch Better Canada,

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Energia Stages Demo Day

  • Jul 14, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton startup accelerator Energia Ventures held a demo day for its spring cohort Tuesday, showcasing a roster of six companies that focused heavily on sustainable technology.

Energia is overseen by the University of New Brunswick’s

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Greenlight Raises $300K

  • Jul 13, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax cannabis testing startup Greenlight Analytical has raised nearly $300,000 of equity funding in a significantly oversubscribed seed round.

When the company bagged a $374,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency last year, the

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IMV Preps for 2 Phase 2B Trials

  • Jul 13, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

IMV, the Dartmouth-based drug discovery company, is planning two Phase 2B trials in the coming months that it hopes will be key steps in bringing its lead compound DPX-Survivac to the market in a few years.

Though its shares have been languishing

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Innovation District Showcases Listed Firms

  • Jul 13, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

One of the big changes in the regional innovation ecosystem in the past few years is the growing importance of publicly listed companies.

This month, our reporter Avery Mullen takes a look at the phenomenon in the region’s largest city in an

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Microsoft Honours 2 NB Companies

  • Jul 12, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton cybersecurity company Bulletproof has won the Security category in the 2021 global Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards, while Kognitiv Spark, also of Fredericton, was a finalist in two categories.

The companies were honored among a

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ACOA Lends OceanSync $94K

  • Jul 12, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has lent $93,888 to Halifax-based OceanSync Data Solutions to help the company develop weather data solutions for the shipping industry.

The federal economic development agency issued a press release Friday

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Quebec’s Oneka Plans NS Base

  • Jul 11, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Sherbrooke, Que,-based Oneka Technologies has raised $5.5 million in a round of equity and non-dilutive funding led by Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp, and plans to establish a base in Atlantic Canada.

Founded in 2015 by

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