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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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McCain Takes Stake in Fiddlehead

  • Feb 04, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

McCain Foods has made a “significant investment” in Moncton-based Fiddlehead Technology, buying out existing investors in the predictive modeling company and positioning it for further growth.

The parties on Thursday would reveal no details of the

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2 Under-the-Radar Exits from 2020

  • Feb 04, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The second half of 2020 was the best period ever for exits in the Atlantic Canadian innovation community, creating wealth for founders and investors. In fact, we’ve recently learned of two under-the-radar deals that add to the growing number of

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LaPlante Named to Global AI List

  • Feb 03, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax’s Jennifer LaPlante, Executive Director of the oceantech artificial intelligence organization DeepSense, has been named in the DataIQ 100, a list of the world’s most influential data and analytics practitioners.

London-based DataIQ, a

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Educode Names National Franchisee for India

  • Feb 03, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Moncton edtech company EduCode Academy has named Foreign Scope Consultants as its first national franchisee for India.

EduCode creates online courses that help children learn to code, and its international sales soared last year as the result of a

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