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MUN’s Woodward Cup Seeks Entries

  • Dec 03, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship has opened applications for the 2020 Mel Woodward Cup, which will hand out $35,000 in prize money to companies founded by Memorial University students.

MCE Director Florian Villaumé sent out an email Monday

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A Look at Halifax’s Startups in 2018

  • Dec 02, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax in 2018 maintained its position as the cornerstone of the Atlantic Canadian startup community, and in the last two years the city’s ecosystem has deepened.

As we present segments from our 2018 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report, we’re

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Dal, MUN in Lab2Market Pilot

  • Dec 02, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Dalhousie University and Memorial University of Newfoundland are at the forefront of a new national program to help researchers turn their discoveries into businesses.

They will be two of the three Canadian universities that will be piloting

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Region Slips in Tech Talent Rankings

  • Dec 01, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Redmond Joins Emergence Incubator

  • Dec 01, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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,

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Teaching Robots to Collaborate in Hostile Environments

  • Nov 29, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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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

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Medteq To Host $200K Pitch Event

  • Nov 29, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Dispension Installs First VID Machine

  • Nov 28, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Data Presentation in Cape Breton

  • Nov 27, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Launching our Ecosystem Roadmap

  • Nov 26, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Gallant: Still Focusing on Innvoation

  • Nov 26, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Energia To Hold Demo Day Dec 11

  • Nov 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

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

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