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Covid-19 Tool for Doctors

  • Mar 31, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

A digital COVID-19 risk stratification and screening survey has been announced by Charlottetown-founded GetOn Health, maker of a telehealth platform for doctors.

Called SecurePass, the new feature is being launched in partnership with clinical

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Rodgers No Longer CEO of Volta

  • Mar 30, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Volta and its CEO Jesse Rodgers have parted ways, four years after he joined the largest innovation hub in Atlantic Canada.

Jevon MacDonald, who chairs the Volta Board, sent out a memo to stakeholders Monday to say Rodgers has

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Gray Wolf Launches Covid-19 App

  • Mar 30, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton-based Gray Wolf Analytics has responded to Covid-19 by launching SafeContact, an app that helps with tracking and tracing the movements of individuals through the crisis.

Gray Wolf started business only last year and its core focus is a

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Milk Moovement in 2 US Accelerators

  • Mar 30, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based Milk Moovement has been accepted into the Food-X program in New York City, having also joined the Thrive accelerator in Silicon Valley, meaning it is simultaneously going through two American accelerators.

Both these food-related

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PM Outlines Programs for SMEs

  • Mar 29, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

The federal government is preparing to cover 75 percent of the wages of qualifying small and medium-sized businesses for three months, as well as extending these companies interest-free loans.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the measures at

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Cyno To Launch Mental Health Aid

  • Mar 29, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based Cyno, which has developed a healthcare platform offering secure online health services, has struck a partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association, Newfoundland and Labrador Division.

Under the partnership, the two groups

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What’s Happening and What’s To Come in #Startupeast

  • Mar 26, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

I’ve spent a lot of time this week talking to support organizations and founders about the Covid-19 crisis – about what’s happening on the ground, how we are responding, and what should happen next.

It’s difficult to see through the fog right now,

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PEI Startups Respond to Covid-19

  • Mar 26, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

We’ve been inundated in the past few days with press releases about what Atlantic Canadian startups are doing to provide products and services to help with the Covid-19 crisis.

Consider Prince Edward Island. We’ve heard from individual companies,

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Side Door Refocuses on Online Shows

  • Mar 26, 2020
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Side Door, an online platform that matches musical artists to small, intimate physical venues, is getting around the pandemic by offering online concerts and raising money for charity.

Last Saturday, Side Door Co-Founder and

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Covid19 Sparks The Rounds’ Growth

  • Mar 25, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

As the Covid-19 crisis has deepened, a growing number of physicians and healthcare professionals have been signing up to The Rounds and its sister platform QID to exchange information on the growing challenge of treating patients.

Based in Halifax,

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Developing Synthetic Lobster Bait

  • Mar 25, 2020
  • Avery Mullen

Two Nova Scotia entrepreneurs are partnering with a North Carolina life sciences startup to develop a more cost-effective and environmentally friendly system for baiting lobster traps.

Vince Stuart is the president of Clare Machine Works and Matt

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SalesRight Closes $600K Round

  • Mar 24, 2020
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based SalesRight, which helps software companies simplify their pricing models, has closed a $600,000 round of funding, building on the momentum of the $325,000 it raised last year.

The latest round was co-led by returning investor Concrete

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