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Region Slips in Tech Talent Rankings
Atlantic Canadian cities have generally lost ground in the past year in the rankings of Canadian tech talent centres, even though other small cities have advanced.
The real estate consultancy CBRE last week released its report titled 2019 Scoring
Redmond Joins Emergence Incubator
The Prince Edward Island BioAlliance has appointed Mark Redmond as Director of Incubation Services for the Emergence incubator, which supports life sciences startups in Atlantic Canada and elsewhere.
The BioAlliance – a partnership of government,
Teaching Robots to Collaborate in Hostile Environments
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Mae Seto compares the way her laboratory programs robots to work to the way we all try to raise our children.
An associate professor in Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Engineering, Seto’s official titles include the Director of
Medteq To Host $200K Pitch Event
The Montreal-based health technology organization Medteq is seeking health startups to apply to pitch at its next funding event, which offers startups a chance to win $200,000 in funding.
Five founders from across the country will pitch at a
Dispension Installs First VID Machine
As it plots the expansion of its Cannaplex innovation hub, Dartmouth-based Dispension Industries has also just installed its first Verified Identity Dispenser, or VID, in a pilot project in Vancouver.
Dispension created the VID to allow authorities
Data Presentation in Cape Breton
The presentations of our 2018 Atlantic Canada Startup Data research will continue with a luncheon event in Sydney on Dec. 10.
Cape Breton Partnership and OnSide are hosting my presentation of our latest startup data at noon at the Verschuren Centre
Launching our Ecosystem Roadmap
We’re launching something new today on Entrevestor – our first Atlantic Canada Ecosystem Roadmap.
The Roadmap is designed to help anyone find information about the startup ecosystem in the region. It’s a new section on our website that helps you
Gallant: Still Focusing on Innvoation
After being elected Premier of New Brunswick, Brian Gallant gave himself the job of Minister of Innovation within his cabinet, and today he’s continuing that focus in a new role.
After being out of office for almost a year, Gallant last month was
Energia To Hold Demo Day Dec 11
Energia Ventures next month will hold the Demo Day for its third cohort – a group rich in cybersecurity expertise.
Overseen by the University of New Brunswick’s Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program, Energia is an annual accelerator
Membertou Chief Recognized
Chief Terrance Paul of Nova Scotia’s Membertou First Nation has been awarded the 2020 Aboriginal business award for Lifetime Achievement by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business.
Paul has been Chief of Membertou First Nation for 35 years and
Appili Buys Anti-Fungal Drug Rights
Appili Therapeutics Inc., the Halifax drug-discovery company that listed its shares in Toronto last spring, has acquired the rights to develop a new anti-fungal drug candidate from a Japanese drug company.
Appili issued a statement Thursday saying
Verafin Leads Record VC quarter
Verafin’s record-breaking venture capital deal showed up big-time in the most recent quarterly data report by the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.
The CVCA’s third-quarter data shows that Atlantic Canadian companies raised