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Tribe to Host Pitch Competition

  • Apr 16, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based Tribe Network will host a pitch competition, dubbed Innovate and Elevate, for Black founders from across Atlantic Canada on May 23.

Shortlisted entrepreneurs will deliver three-minute pitches with the help of six-slide pitch decks,

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Özge Yeloğlu Named Propel Chair

  • Apr 16, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Virtual startup accelerator Propel has a new Chair, CIBC executive Özge Yeloğlu, along with three new board members.

Yeloğlu, who is now CIBC’s Vice President of Advanced Analytics and AI, previously held senior roles at Microsoft and is a Founding

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Invest NS Announces Greenshoots Cohort

  • Apr 16, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Provincial economic development agency Invest Nova Scotia has revealed the companies in its eighth GreenShoots accelerator cohort, all but one of which are receiving the maximum funding amount of $40,000.

GreenShoots offers agtech, biotech and

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Remote Operations Hub Opens in NL

  • Apr 14, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Newfoundland and Labrador has a new government- and industry-backed innovation hub focused specifically on remote operations, meaning technology controlled from a different location.

In an interview, Co. Innovation Centre President Meagan

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Supercluster Seeks Indigenous Board Member

  • Apr 14, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, the federal government organization that partners with the private sector to fund bluetech research and development, is looking for an Indigenous board member with expertise in the ocean economy, starting in May.

“The

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SayFaya Finds Early Traction

  • Apr 11, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax entrepreneur Hussain Abdullah believes he has found a gap in the car detailing market for a low cost, mobile offering and is building out his operation quickly on the back of a positive response from early clients.

Hussain is the Founder of

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Spark Contest Seeks N.S. Business Ideas

  • Apr 11, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

The 2024 Spark Nova Scotia competition is open and seeking people with innovative business ideas to vie for up to $50,000 in startup funding. 

Training sessions start April 30 and run throughout May. They are open to people with a business idea for

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Tuckamore Tech Wins Genesis Pitch Competition

  • Apr 10, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Tuckamore Tech, which is developing augmented reality technology for firefighters, placed first at Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub Genesis’ Evolution Pitch Showcase this week.

Founded by mechanical engineering student Tyler Yard, Tuckamore

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Lab2Market Oceans—Discover Launched

  • Apr 10, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

The Ocean Startup Project, along with Dal Innovates and the Transforming Climate Action research program are launching a new opportunity for researchers at Canadian universities called Lab2Market Oceans -- Discover. 

The three-day program will help

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Risley’s Project Nujio’qonik Wins Environmental Nod

  • Apr 10, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

John Risley’s World Energy GH2 has won the long sought-after environmental approval it needs to move ahead with a massive, 328-turbine wind energy and hydrogen production facility near St. George’s Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador.

The Newfoundland

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CTA London Seeks East Coast Applicants

  • Apr 09, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

With Atlantic Canadian companies making up one-quarter of its latest cohort, the Canadian Technology Accelerator in London is hoping for even more applications from the East Coast in the future.

The Trade Commissioner Service in the British capital

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US Company Agrees To Buy Appili

  • Apr 09, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics has agreed to be acquired by Richmond, Virginia-based Aditxt for C$16.8 million in cash, stock and assumed debt, though the acquirer has to raise US$20 million to close the deal.

Last week,

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