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Ocean Supercluster Unveils Innovation Projects

  • Jan 16, 2025
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Retellio Closes $1.3M VC Round

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Profitual Joins NEXT AI

  • Mar 20, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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,

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Martha Casey Becomes EfficiencyOne COO

  • Mar 20, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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

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P.E.I. Life Sciences Sector Posted $600M Revenue in 2022

  • Mar 19, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Clean Valley Joins Thrive

  • Mar 19, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Ocean Startup Project Announces Follow-On Funding

  • Mar 18, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

National industry group the Ocean Startup Project has announced 12 alumni from its accelerator program that will receive follow-on funding.

Offered for the first time this year, the Ocean Challenge: Boost funding program offers additional funding

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MarineThinking Attending NATO DIANA

  • Mar 17, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based MarineThinking, which has developed autonomous technologies for marine vessels, is now going through NATO’s new innovation accelerator operating out of Boston.

The company is one of seven companies selected for the first cohort of the

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Aurea Plans Automation

  • Mar 15, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is lending Aurea Technologies just under $392,000 as the Dartmouth maker of portable wind turbines looks to automate more of its production process.

Some of the money will go towards buying specialized

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Ashored to be Recognized at CIX

  • Mar 15, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Bedford, N.S.-based Ashored Innovations will be the only Atlantic Canadian company among the Top 20 early-stage startups to watch at this year’s CIX Summit in Toronto.

The CIX conference, organized by non-profit innovation network and events

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Supercluster Announces $18M of AI, Navigation Projects

  • Mar 14, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a trio of new projects worth a combined $17.8 million, including a $12 million funding package led by a Halifax startup aimed at developing berth scheduling AI for ports.

The AI project aims to develop a

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Canadian Oceantech on Display in London

  • Mar 13, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

The Canadian oceantech community – and the Atlantic Canadian contingent in particular – is on full display at the Oceanology International conference in London, seeking investment, customers and international partnerships.

Oceanology International

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Seven Companies Join WIN-VC

  • Mar 12, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The University of New Brunswick’s Pond-Deshpande Centre has announced the seven startups joining the Atlantic cohort of the Women and Nonbinary Impact Network for Venture Capital, or WIN-VC, which provides coaching and support services to help new

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Collaskins Eyes Its Own Plant

  • Mar 12, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Collaskins, one of a trio of interlinked St. John’s startups aiming to reduce waste from fish processing, is raising a round of pre-seed funding that it will put towards building its own plant. 

Co-founders Janice Saunders and Ben Wiper spun

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