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Modest Tree Simplifying Maintenance at Sea

  • May 03, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based Modest Tree, which sells augmented reality software, will spearhead a $2.2 million project from  Canada's Ocean Supercluster to develop a digital platform for ship and ocean equipment maintenance.

The system, dubbed “Tech Companion,”

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Planetary Hydrogen Joins C2V

  • May 02, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Planetary Hydrogen, a cleantech company that moved from Ottawa to Nova Scotia last year, has been accepted into the New York-based Carbon to Value Initiative, which encourages industrial uses of carbon dioxide.

The company launched in Ottawa a few

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ONSIDE Launches Innovation Tour

  • May 02, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Entrevestor is delighted to be participating in the Nova Scotia Innovation Tour, a bi-weekly lunch-and-learn series presented by ONSIDE, which supports innovation in the province.

I’ll be kicking off the virtual series on Wednesday with the first

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Meta Enters Geothermal Market

  • Apr 29, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based Metamaterial Inc., which makes advanced materials, is entering the geothermal electricity market in a partnership with Houston-based Sage Geosystems.

The two companies this week announced that they are collaborating on a

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Fundraising AI Targets Non-Profits

  • Apr 29, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Fundmetric and Acadia University are teaming up to host the Fundraising AI Forum 2021, a virtual event that shows non-profits the advantages of advanced technologies like AI and how to adopt them.

The event, which will be held May 18, will feature

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Walsh-McGuire To Head CASTL

  • Apr 28, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The PEI BioAlliance on Tuesday named Penny Walsh-McGuire the new Executive Director of the Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences, or CASTL.

Walsh-McGuire is best known as the CEO of the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of

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OzoneBio Creating Nylon from Zombies

  • Apr 28, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

OzoneBio is developing a more environmentally friendly form of nylon 66 from “zombie cells” in Sydney, where the company has become the latest to join the Verschuren Centre, the rapidly evolving hub for an emerging biotechnology sector.

The two

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Volta Names 15 Cohort Finalists

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Fifteen early-stage startups will pitch for as much as $25,000 each in equity funding at the next Volta Cohort Pitch Event on May 19.

Volta, the Halifax innovation hub, initiated the funding program three-and-a-half years ago, and so far 34

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Sona Begins New Trials in Toronto

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Sona Nanotech will begin clinical trials in Toronto this week in which 500 emergency room patients suspected of having COVID-19 will use the company’s saliva-based rapid test.

The trials come as the company, whose shares are listed on

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Unbound Aims to Cut Drug Waste

  • Apr 25, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

St. John’s-based Unbound Chemicals is tackling a big problem – the waste produced by the pharmaceutical industry.

The company is developing a process to unlock the valuable ingredients from pharmaceutical waste. It’s an issue that has been

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An Unprecedented Month of Funding

  • Apr 22, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

More than $50 million has flowed into the Atlantic Canadian innovation sector in April, and we still have a week to go before the month ends.

We’ve been scrambling to keep up with all the investment news this month, which we think is unprecedented

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AVSS Completes Key Standards Test

  • Apr 22, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions of New Brunswick, which makes safety parachutes for drones, has completed key testing that means the company now adheres to new rules on drone safety.

Based in the Saint John suburb of Rothesay, AVSS issued a

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