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Upfront Inks Whole Foods Deal

  • Jun 14, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Upfront Cosmetics, the Nackawic, NB-based maker of eco-friendly baby shampoo, now sells its soap in close to 275 stores and has inked a 14-store deal with health food giant Whole Foods.

Launched in 2019 by Founder Alicia Sharp, Upfront was inspired

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Sona Nano Ends COVID Trials

  • Jun 13, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Sona Nanotech shares fell 68 percent on Friday after the Halifax life sciences company announced it had ended the clinical trials of its saliva-based rapid test for COVID-19 due to disappointing results.

The company had been conducting trials at

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Bluenotes: BlueSwell, PORT Launched

  • Jun 13, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Boston-based oceans accelerator SeaAhead and the New England Aquarium have announced the launch of the BlueSwell Incubator Program, New England’s first early-stage bluetech incubator.

BlueSwell is designed to support the creation and growth of

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Venn, UdeM Focus on Students

  • Jun 13, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Venn Innovation and Université de Moncton (Campus Shippagan or UMCS) are working together to boost entrepreneurship within the province's student community.

Their new partnership will see increased collaboration between Venn Garage, which is Venn

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Supercluster Projects Focus on AR, VR

  • Jun 10, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Thursday announced four new research projects worth $3.5 million, with a special focus on the use of mixed-reality technologies like augmented reality, or AR, and virtual reality.

The Atlantic Canada-based group,

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Two Companies Win $25k from NBIF

  • Jun 10, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s Breakthru-Newcomer startup competition has announced two winners of $25,000 each.

The two companies, HomeSchoolToGo and Brain Tumor Segmentation, beat out 34 other ventures. HomeSchoolToGo won in the

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Cooper Joins Volta as CIO

  • Jun 09, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

When Matt Cooper first discovered startup incubator Volta in the middle of the last decade, it was not as the leader of a prospective resident company, but as a service provider.

Cooper was a co-founder of Swept – which was then a cleaning company

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Ocean Supercluster’s Ecosystem Index

  • Jun 09, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has launched a joint project with MIT Technology Review Insights, the university publication’s customer research and content arm, to create an index ranking the ocean-tech ecosystems in 60 countries.

The index, called

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Dal Names Second R2L Cohort

  • Jun 08, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Dalhousie University has announced the second cohort of its Ready2Launch summer accelerator, which comprises 12 teams from universities across Atlantic Canada.

Known as R2L, the three-month program is designed for teams that are committed to

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Green Power Readies Joint Project

  • Jun 08, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Dartmouth’s Green Power Labs, which makes predictive analytics software for electrical grids and solar power plants, is launching a joint project with Calgary- and Houston-based MR Control Systems International.

Founded in 2004, Green Power’s

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We Remain Committed to Entrevestor

  • Jun 08, 2021
  • Peter and Carol Moreira

We would like to take the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to Entrevestor, and to providing the Atlantic Canadian startup community with news and data.

On Tuesday, we marked World Oceans Day with our first post in our new oceans-themed page

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Launching Global Oceans Coverage

  • Jun 08, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Today, on World Oceans Day, we’re launching our first global coverage of the oceantech space.

On our new Oceantech page, we’ve published an article on the explosion in bluetech accelerators around the world, which marks the first time Entrevestor

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