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Venn, UdeM Focus on Students
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
Supercluster Projects Focus on AR, VR
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,
Two Companies Win $25k from NBIF
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
Cooper Joins Volta as CIO
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
Ocean Supercluster’s Ecosystem Index
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
Dal Names Second R2L Cohort
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
Green Power Readies Joint Project
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
We Remain Committed to Entrevestor
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
Launching Global Oceans Coverage
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
Blue Accelerators Around the World
One of the biggest changes in the ocean innovation space in the last five years is the explosion of bluetech accelerators around the world.
Five years ago, an entrepreneur with an ocean-focused venture would have had only a few accelerators to work
Talkatoo Bags VMX Win
Halifax’s Talkatoo, which sells transcription software for veterinarians, has won a major pitch competition hosted by the North American Veterinary Community, or NAVC, industry group.
Talkatoo beat out 19 competitors at the fourth annual VMX Pet
Aurea Launching Shine on Kickstarter
Halifax’s Aurea Technologies is launching a Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday to fund its first consumer product, a portable wind turbine called Shine.
The turbine is a portable power generator designed for campers and hikers who need to charge their
