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Symbodi Recognized by Fast Company
Fredericton-based Symbodi is the only Canadian company to make this year’s list of the 10 Most Innovative Companies in Wellness and Personal Care, as ranked by prestigious American business magazine Fast Company.
Incorporated in 2018 by Founder
Foodtech Atlantic to be Held in Digby
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and national industry group the Canadian Food Innovation Network will host a one-day conference in Digby, N.S. April 18.
Dubbed Foodtech Atlantic, the event’s theme this year will be “advancing innovation
Atlantic BioCorp Will Fund Production Facility with Woodward Cup Prize
Atlantic BioCorp Founder Dante Enewold plans to use the $25,000 he won in last week's Woodward Cup pitch competition to build a production facility for his process that converts crab shells into chitosan.
Held Wednesday by the Memorial Centre for
Rachael Craig’s MotionHall Exits
Rachael Craig, who was active in the early days of the Halifax startup ecosystem, now has a Silicon Valley exit on her résumé.
Craig was a Co-Founder and (until recently) CEO of San Francisco-based MotionHall, which developed software that provided
Victory Receives $400K from ACOA
A Saint John electric vehicle startup has received just over $400,000 from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency as it looks to scale production of its high-performance motors.
Victory Advanced Technologies sells powertrains that can be
LadderSpike Wins National Pitch Competition
As St. John’s-based LadderSpike looks to start delivering on its pre-orders this spring, the company has won a pitch competition at the Canadian Construction Association’s annual conference, bagging the top prize with its footing system for ladders.
MIMOSA Wins at Medtech Investment Challenge
MIMOSA Diagnostics, the Halifax- and Toronto-based maker of a medical device for non-invasively measuring tissue damage, was victorious at Wednesday’s medtech finals of the Atlantic Canada Healthtech Scale-up and Investment Challenge, besting four
Youth Innovation Fair Coming to Miramichi
Brilliant Labs, an Atlantic Canadian charity that aims to foster coding and digital skills among youth, will host an innovation fair in Miramichi April 4, with the timing chosen to align with an eclipse that will happen on the 8th.
Slated to be
Profitual Joins NEXT AI
Profitual, a financial intelligence startup founded by a pair of former New Brunswick Innovation Foundation execs, is one of 40 companies nationally to be accepted into startup support organization NEXT Canada’s 2024 AI cohort.
NEXT, a non-profit,
Martha Casey Becomes EfficiencyOne COO
Nova Scotia cleantech non-profit EfficiencyOne has a new member of its C-suite, and one who will be familiar to many in the innovation economy: former Volta chief executive Martha Casey.
Most recently the interim co-CEO of the International
P.E.I. Life Sciences Sector Posted $600M Revenue in 2022
Life sciences businesses on Prince Edward Island brought in more than $600 million of revenue in 2022, according to research from the P.E.I. BioAlliance.
A survey by the industry group of about 50 of its member companies found their combined
Clean Valley Joins Thrive
Halifax’s Clean Valley CIC is the only Atlantic Canadian startup among 15 to be selected for Silicon Valley accelerator Thrive’s third Canadian cohort.
Thrive, which is run by the West Coast agri-food VC firm SVG Ventures, offers startup founders