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IMV Extends Runway with $25M Raise

  • May 18, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based drug discovery company IMV Inc. has enough cash to finance its operations until mid-2021 now that it has closed a $25.1 million private placement of shares and warrants.

The company, whose shares are listed on the TSX in Toronto and

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Sydney Duo Wins Startup Weekend

  • May 18, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

Two Cape Breton University nursing students have placed first in the Canadian division of the Techstars Startup Weekend.

Held via video-conference on April 24 and dubbed “Unite to Fight COVID-19,” the competition saw aspiring entrepreneurs divide

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Innovacorp Offers Story Arc Series

  • May 14, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

The Cape Breton office of Innovacorp is offering a series of virtual meetings featuring leaders in communications and strategy free of charge in order to help entrepreneurs understand the importance of story-telling.  

The series, which is open to

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Volta Cohort Backs 5 Startups

  • May 14, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

Five startups each won $25,000 worth of investment in a remote version of the Volta Cohort pitching competition on Wednesday night.

The winners were chosen from a field of about 30 initial applicants, 15 of whom were selected to give three-minute

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ACOA Earmarks $110M for SMEs

  • May 13, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, or ACOA, will be distributing $110 million of federal funding to small and medium-sized companies that do not qualify for other forms of emergency bailouts.

ACOA said in a press release Wednesday that the

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SimplyCast Wins National Award

  • May 13, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based SimplyCast, a multi-channel marketing company, has been awarded the Canie Award for Global Entrepreneurship for the Atlantic Region by the Innovators & Entrepreneurs Foundation. a national charity dedicated to supporting

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CDL Growth Includes Oceans Cohort

  • May 12, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

Despite COVID-19 necessitating logistical changes, 2020 is shaping up to be a landmark year for the Atlantic division of science and technology accelerator Creative Destruction Lab.

The cohort that finished the program on May 5 was the first to

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Canada51 To Back Women Founders

  • May 12, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund and its Alberta counterpart are forming a new organization that they hope will become a nationwide vehicle for supporting female-led businesses.

The new group Canada51 is now a partnership between the AWVF and the

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Propel CEO Bisson To Retire in Fall

  • May 11, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Propel CEO Barry Bisson has announced he will retire in the fall of this year, so the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator has begun its search for his replacement.

The pan-regional organization issued a statement Monday evening, saying its board of

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Appili To Test COVID-19 Drug

  • May 11, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Appili Therapeutics said Monday it will sponsor the first clinical trial in Canada evaluating Fujifilm Toyama Chemical’s drug Favipiravir for the prevention of COVID-19.

The Halifax company dedicated to fighting infectious diseases last November

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Call for Short-Term Ocean Projects

  • May 11, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is seeking applications from across Canada for short-term, innovative projects that will help stimulate economic activity.

Under the Accelerated Ocean Solutions Program, the federally backed supercluster—which partners

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Dal Rated #85 in Impact Rankings

  • May 11, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

Dalhousie University has been recognized by Times Higher Education magazine for its work on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

The publication’s University Impact Rankings rated Dalhousie 85th out of 767 universities that

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