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BreatheSuite Closes $550K Round

  • Oct 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based BreatheSuite Inc., which helps people to use inhalers properly, has raised a $550,000 round of equity financing led by Venture NL, the Newfoundland and Labrador fund overseen by Pelorus Venture Capital.

The company issued a press

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3 Win Retail Innovation Awards

  • Oct 23, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Dash Hudson is one of three Canadian innovation companies to be honoured at the upcoming National Retail Innovation Awards in Halifax.

The David Sobey Centre for Innovation in Retailing and Services, located at Saint Mary’s University

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SnapAp Captures National Award

  • Oct 22, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

When the Channel Innovation Awards were held last month, one of the big winners was Moncton-based SnapAp, a small-but-growing company that makes payment software.

In the national competition organized by Channel Daily News, SnapAp captured the Gold

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Densitas Joins Nuance Marketplace

  • Oct 22, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Densitas Inc. whose software helps assess the density of breasts during mammograms, announced this week its densitas densityai software will soon be available on the Nuance AI Marketplace.

In a statement, Densitas said the Nuance

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Rising Number of Startup Launches

  • Oct 21, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

One of the changes that have taken place in the East Coast startup ecosystem in the past four or five years is the region has ratcheted up its capacity for launching new companies.

As part of our mission to chart and analyze data on the startup

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Jennifer Wagner Named to Clean50

  • Oct 20, 2019
  • Eli Lusty

CarbonCure Technologies' Jennifer Wagner has been named to the Clean50, which each year recognizes 50 Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to clean capitalism.

As Executive Vice-President of Corporate Development at Dartmouth-based

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Startup Weekends Set for CB, PEI

  • Oct 20, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Startup weekends are being planned for Sydney and Charlottetown in the coming month, giving aspiring entrepreneurs a chance to learn how to develop a business idea in a single weekend.

Techstars Startup Weekend, the international organization that

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Isenberg Details Scalerator Success

  • Oct 18, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

When the University of New Brunswick hosts its Future of Innovation conference on Saturday in Fredericton, one of the highlights will be Daniel Isenberg speaking on his Scalerator program.

In particular, he’ll be able to give a recap of Scale Up

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Puddister Wins EY’s EoY Award

  • Oct 17, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Larry Puddister, Executive Chairman of St. John’s-based integrated solutions provider Pennecon, is this year’s EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 Atlantic winner.

Puddister’s entrepreneurial journey started at the age of 12 in his hometown of Bay

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ShiftKey, Dal CS Grow Together

  • Oct 16, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

With computer science enrollment soaring at one of its key constituencies, ShiftKey Labs is developing programming to encourage tech entrepreneurship among students.

ShiftKey Labs is housed in the Goldberg Computer Science Building at Dalhousie

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Arolytics Preps for Oil Patch Change

  • Oct 16, 2019
  • Avery Mullen

The founders of a startup that aims to help oil and gas companies track their greenhouse gas emissions believe their business is poised for rapid growth.

Arolytics was developed at St. Francis Xavier University, where co-founders Liz O’Connell,

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Venn Leads Mission to Money 20/20

  • Oct 16, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Venn Innovation will lead a group of 10 technology companies to the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas from Oct. 27 to 30 with the goal of increasing sales within the financial services space.

The Atlantic Fintech Mission will travel to

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