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Genesis Partners with BDO Canada

  • Mar 04, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

St. John’s-based Genesis, Memorial University’s incubator for tech startups, has announced a partnership with the St. John’s office of BDO Canada, which is designed to benefit entrepreneurs in its Enterprise program. 

BDO, a global accounting firm,

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ServUs Eyes Expansion

  • Mar 03, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

After building up its business in British Columbia, Fredericton-based ServUs Health is looking to expand on the West Coast and in its home market of New Brunswick.

The web-based company helps seniors and their carers find vetted service providers,

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MySafe Lands $3.5M Grant

  • Mar 03, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Health Canada has awarded a $3.49 million grant to the MySafe Society to help fund the roll-out of five opioid dispensers manufactured by Dartmouth-based Dispension Industries.

The federal Health Department said this week it would make the funding

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Granville’s Swab Approved

  • Mar 03, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Health Canada has approved the Granville Swab, a new product created by St. John’s-based Granville Biomedical.

During the pandemic, company Co-Founder and registered nurse Crystal Northcott has been swabbing people for the COVID-19 virus in

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Dickinson in Outcast’s $10M Round

  • Mar 02, 2021
  • Carol and Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based Outcast Foods, which makes powdered food products from rejected produce, has closed a $10 million funding round, half of which came from the fund led by Arlene Dickinson of Dragons’ Den fame.

Outcast will use the money to expand its

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SomaDetect Unveils $6M Raise

  • Mar 02, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Agtech company SomaDetect has closed a $6 million venture capital round led by Ag Tech Canada, and intends to use the funds to accelerate adoption of its sensor technology that monitors the health of dairy herds.

As well as the Tillsonburg, Ont.-

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MCE’s Woodward Cup Set for March 25

  • Mar 02, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship on March 25 will host the 2021 Mel Woodward Cup, which will hand out $40,000 in prize money to companies founded by Memorial University students.

The virtual event will be a pitching competition for student

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Snorble Set for Indiegogo Campaign

  • Mar 01, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Snorble, an automated bedtime companion for children, has been chosen for a high-impact campaign on Indiegogo, says its Halifax-based designer Mike Rizkalla.

Snorble is a soft toy, about the size of a teddy bear, that uses voice recognition

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NB Bioeconomy Event Now Regional Partnership

  • Mar 01, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

For eight years, BioNB and partners have held the bioeconomy conference Atlantic BIOCON. For this year's event, the partnership is expanding to include the Nova Scotia Innovation Hub, CCNB-INNOV and IGNITE Atlantic, and young researchers are being

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Globe Lauds 3 East Coast Founders

  • Feb 27, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

By being named to the Globe and Mail’s inaugural list of 50 Canadian Changemakers, Charles Milton hopes he can shine a spotlight on the dearth of domestic Black entrepreneurs in the Nova Scotian startup community.

Milton, the Co-Founder and CEO of

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NB Crypto Mining Centre Sold

  • Feb 27, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

A surprising corporate deal took place last week which will result in a new data centre in Grand Falls, NB, being part of an environmentally sustainable cryptocurrency operation.

Vancouver-based HIVE Blockchain Technologies, which is listed on the

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Jobs: MCE, En Point, MindSea

  • Feb 26, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Our Jobs of the Week column today features postings at En Point and MindSea in Halifax, and the Memorial University Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, in St. John’s.

The mission of the MCE is to inspire and enable aspiring entrepreneurs and to

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