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Myomar Aims For Regulatory Approval This Summer

  • Mar 10, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Myomar Molecular hopes to use some of the $1.1 million funding round it just closed to win Health Canada approval for its muscle health test by the end of June, as the company prepares for another raise later this year, CEO Rafaela Andrade said in

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P.E.I. Offers $500K for Cleantech

  • Mar 10, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The Prince Edward Island government has created a new research and development fund to back cleantech projects.

Companies, post-secondary institutions and Indigenous communities will be able to apply for funding worth 80 percent of their project

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EmployNXT Launches Human Resources AI

  • Mar 08, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based human resources startup EmployNXT will launch its product Monday with a focus on its beachhead markets of Atlantic Canada and Ontario, as CEO Shubhra Singh eyes a six-figure capital raise.

Singh originally created EmployNXT as a

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Aurea Recognized by Coralus

  • Mar 08, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Aurea Technologies, the Halifax maker of portable wind turbines, is one of 10 companies to be accepted into social impact investor Coralus’s Canadian list of 10 Selected Ventures to watch.

Coralus, an international industry group founded in Toronto

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Volta Seeks Investment Day Startups

  • Mar 08, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to the spring edition of its Investment Day event, which it hosts in collaboration with accelerator Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic.

The event will be held at Volta’s new offices in downtown

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Acuicy Wins at Spring Investment Challenge

  • Mar 07, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Acuicy, the Halifax-based maker of business intelligence software for emissions reduction, was victorious at the cleantech finals of the Atlantic Canada Cleantech Scale-up and Investment Challenge, a startup competition that aims to develop not just

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CarbonCure Reaches 50 Million Cubic Yards of Concrete

  • Mar 07, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

About 50 million cubic yards of concrete have now been produced using the technology of Halifax clean concrete star CarbonCure, the company said Wednesday, with 800 systems having been licensed to clients across 35 countries.

The milestone comes as

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If You Raised Capital Last Year, Please Read This

  • Mar 06, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

If you raised equity capital in 2023, please – PLEASE – take a few minutes and complete our confidential survey. It will help the whole startup community.

This is a critical time for startup funding, especially for early-stage startups. With rising

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SudDrop Offers Laundry Delivery

  • Mar 05, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

A Halifax student athlete hopes to make his laundry subscription service a slam dunk with busy consumers.

Saint Mary’s University basketball player Jayrell Diggs is the founder of SudDrop, which offers to collect dirty laundry from users' homes and

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BIOVECTRA Signs Supply Chain Partnership

  • Mar 05, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Charlottetown drug-maker BIOVECTRA has signed a supply chain partnership deal with a quartet of other life sciences companies as part of a project from NGEN, the federal manufacturing Supercluster.

The project will see BIOVECTRA share supply chain

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SiftMed Wins Security Certification

  • Mar 05, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

SiftMed, the St. John’s maker of software that helps law offices and insurance companies organize and search jumbled medical records, has won a key cybersecurity certification for its technology.

The company’s software is now officially recognized

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Precision BioLogic Acquired by Swedish PE Fund

  • Mar 04, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Precision BioLogic, one of the oldest life sciences companies in Atlantic Canada, has been acquired by the Swedish private equity firm Procuritas Capital Investors for an undisclosed sum.

The companies issued a statement late last

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