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COVE Unveils Marine Testing Platform

  • Feb 11, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

A multi-user marine testing platform, dubbed Stella Maris, is taking shape at the Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship in Dartmouth.

The platform will help oceantech firms develop, test and commercialize marine sensor technologies.

“With

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Nautel Buys 2 French Companies

  • Feb 11, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Nautel, the Nova Scotia-based maker of radio transmitters, has acquired French technology companies Digidia and Kenta to expand its offerings of products in the broadcast and maritime communications sectors.

The Hackett’s Cove-based company

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Our Databank Shows Fewer New Companies, More Failures in 2020

  • Feb 10, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2020 eked out its weakest growth in at least seven years as the pandemic resulted in fewer new companies and more failures.

This is the preliminary picture of the East Coast startup community that we’ve

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El-Darahali on NRC, BBI, ISANS Boards

  • Feb 10, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Saeed El-Darahali, President and CEO of Dartmouth-based marketing automation company SimplyCast, has added new appointments to the number of boards he sits on.

El-Darahali has been appointed to the National Research Council of Canada, the Black

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Ocean Startup Project Preps for Year 2

  • Feb 09, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Having completed its first full year, the Ocean Startup Project is gearing up to increase its work in Year 2 with a mission of producing more ocean-related startups in the region and country.

The project is a collaboration between a range of groups

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Help Us Prep for Entrevestor Events

  • Feb 09, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

We see the Entrevestor Survey as a community project, with founders providing us with data while we in turn share what we learn with the community.

We’re on Day 3 of our campaign to have founders of Atlantic Canadian innovation-driven startups

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Four GreenShoots Winners Named

  • Feb 09, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Four Nova Scotian companies have been selected to receive as much as $40,000 each in the GreenShoots program, which offers guidance to agriculture, food, bioproducts, cleantech and related companies.

GreenShoots – which is organized by Innovacorp,

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Please Take 3 Minutes To Complete our Survey

  • Feb 08, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

We’re asking all founders of Atlantic Canadian startups to fill in our survey, which we believe will help the startup community and support mental health.

We launched our survey yesterday, keeping it to just 15 questions so it can be completed in a

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NBIF Invested $4.8M in VC in 2019-20

  • Feb 08, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation invested a total of $4.81 million in 21 startups in New Brunswick in its last fiscal year, according to the organization’s 2020 annual report.

The report, which was recently posted on the NBIF website, shows

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Launching Our Latest Survey

  • Feb 07, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Today we are launching our survey to capture data on the Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2020, and we’re asking all founders in the region to take a few minutes to complete the 15-question survey.

We know how busy people are, so we have kept

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NS Invests $5M in Sandpiper

  • Feb 07, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The Nova Scotian government is contributing $5 million to Sandpiper Ventures, the first venture capital fund of the Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund.

The investment from the provincial government, announced on Friday, is a key step in the Women’s

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Job of the Week: Dash Hudson

  • Feb 07, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today showcases an opening for a Renewals Account Executive at Dash Hudson in Halifax.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its

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