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Women’s Fund Seeks Manager

  • Oct 29, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund is seeking an investment partner, someone who can identify target companies and negotiate investments for the fund expected to launch next year.

The Women’s Venture Fund is one of the most highly anticipated

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Ashored in Top 3 at MassChallenge

  • Oct 28, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based Ashored Innovations has graduated from MassChallenge with one of the top three prizes at the international accelerator.

Ashored, which is developing fishing equipment that reduces risks to marine life, was one of two companies to

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Passive Design Eyes New Markets

  • Oct 28, 2019
  • Avery Mullen

A Nova Scotia engineer is aiming to take energy-efficient housing mainstream.

Natalie Leonard is the founder of Passive Design Solutions, which sells ready-made building plans for energy-efficient houses.

The company originally specialized in

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BioNB Leads Cannabis Campaign

  • Oct 27, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

A year after the legalization of cannabis in Canada, New Brunswick is making a push into developing innovation into the sector.

The province is in the midst of a two-week campaign to draw attention to the potential of the field – especially the

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Alpha Dog Acquired by Bethesda

  • Oct 27, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Bedford-based Alpha Dog Games, one of the leading mobile-game developers in Atlantic Canada, has been acquired by Bethesda Softworks of Maryland for an undisclosed price.

Founded by Jeff Cameron and Shawn Woods in 2012, Alpha Dog has developed such

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MCE Finalist in Global Awards

  • Oct 24, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship was named one of five finalists in the emerging entrepreneurship centre category of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Center’s annual awards.

Though the St John’s-based organization didn’t win, the

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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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