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Atlantic FinTech Partners with Fintech Cadence

  • Apr 12, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Atlantic FinTech, an association supporting financial technology in the region, has partnered with Fintech Cadence, a Montreal-based national non-profit, to help grow the region’s fintech industry and ecosystem.

The region is already home to a

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PEI’s Sentry Closes Series A Round

  • Apr 11, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Charlottetown-based Island Water Technologies said last week its Sentry subsidiary has closed a Series A funding round, with backing from two key ethical funds that can help it grow.

Sentry, which uses real-time bio-electrode sensors to collect and

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ACOA Backs Verschuren Centre

  • Apr 08, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has committed $2.2 million to support the growth of the emerging biotechnology sector at the Verschuren Centre in Sydney, Cape Breton.

The funding is being provided to the Centre and to four companies which

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Pitch & Pick Set for Tuesday

  • Apr 08, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Eight teams will vie for a $1,500 first prize at Genesis’s next Pitch & Pick competition, which will be held Tuesday, April 13, at 3 pm NST.

Pitch & Pick is the demo day for the eight top teams in the Evolution Program, the eight-week program at

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Jason Hopper Joins QOMPLEX

  • Apr 08, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

When QOMPLX of Virginia acquired Hyperion Gray of North Carolina last month in a union of cybersecurity companies, it had some impact in Nova Scotia due to remote working.

Hyperion Gray’s Chief Technology Officer was Haligonian Jason Hopper, and he

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Aggregated Family Forest Carbon Offsets Launched

  • Apr 07, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Sackville-N.B.-based Community Forests International is launching and seeking investors for its aggregated family forest carbon offsets project which allows individual forest landowners to pool their lands and join carbon markets. 

The charity

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Innovators Named to NS Economic Growth Council

  • Apr 07, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

An advisory body with a mandate to grow the post-pandemic economy has been set up by the Nova Scotian government and features some of the province's most influential entrepreneurs and innovators.

The new 10-member council will be headed by Scott

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Sedna Launches Sensor Globe

  • Apr 06, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based oceantech company Sedna Technologies has released Sensor Globe, a piece of hardware that can gather real-time data on live seafood in tanks, fish farm pens or other environments.

The three-year-old company is dedicated to monitoring

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Farmers’ Truck, Earthli Make Impact Challenge

  • Apr 06, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Two regional companies have made the top 20 ventures entered into the inaugural Canada-wide Impact Investor Challenge. Run by Vancouver-based Spring Activator, the contest offers the chance to win $100,000 in impact investment.

The Farmers’ Truck,

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Site Says Try It All Without Buying It All

  • Apr 05, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

A new website that allows the renting of personal property such as sports equipment is being launched by young Halifax entrepreneur Zachary Laberge.

Laberge, 15, has raised $70,000 and is taking his site, frenter, through the Propel program, all

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Jobs: Marketing Manager at Velsoft

  • Apr 05, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Marketing Manager at New Glasgow, NS-based eLearning company Velsoft Training Materials.

Velsoft’s product turns written training materials into interactive, industry-compliant eLearning.

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Sydney’s Verschuren Centre Builds Bio Hub

  • Apr 04, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

At a time when Atlantic Canada in general is attracting innovation-driven companies from other parts of Canada and the wider world, no city has attracted more startups than Sydney, which is establishing a thriving life sciences cluster.

At least

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