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Invest NS Offers Virtual Market Development

  • Feb 19, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Invest Nova Scotia, the provincial business development agency, is seeking applicants to its Market Entry Development Program, which helps businesses establish a virtual presence in Europe or Asia in preparation to begin exporting.

The program,

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NBIF Announces Climate Impact Grant Recipients

  • Feb 16, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced seven “commercialization-ready” academic research projects receiving a combined $540,000 from this year’s Climate Impact Grants.

NBIF and economic development agency Opportunities New Brunswick

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Volta Pitch Competition for Female Founders March 26

  • Feb 16, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax startup hub Volta will host a Women Taking over the World with Tech, or WTWT, pitch competition next Tuesday, March 26 at 4:00 p.m.

The competition, to be held virtually, will invite female founders to deliver three-minute pitches and

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Scient Launches Virtual Mining Core Database

  • Feb 14, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Mining technology startup Scient has launched a virtual library of rock cores from throughout Nova Scotia, a year after it began digitizing the provincial repository, offering geologists and mining companies a way to access key data without

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Ashored Considers Leasing Model

  • Feb 13, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Bedford, N.S.-based Ashored Innovations has a pair of key choices to make this month or the next, chief business development officer Stephen Jones said in an interview Tuesday, as the maker of rope-on-command fishing gear looks to capitalize on

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Reminder To Complete our Survey

  • Feb 13, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

One recurring message we’re getting from the dozens of founders who’ve completed our survey is: thanks for conducting this important research.

You won’t be surprised to learn that we also believe the research is important, and that’s why we’re

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Techleft Aims to Help Seniors Age More Comfortably

  • Feb 12, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

A St. John’s company is aiming to use a combination of artificial intelligence and wearable devices to help seniors stay in their homes longer.

Techleft is the creation of Viral Galaiya and Kenneth Nwankwo — a pair of Memorial University students

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NL to Develop Healthtech and Biotech Strategy

  • Feb 12, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The Newfoundland government and two technology sector industry groups, techNL and the affiliated Bounce Health Innovation, are aiming to develop a unified plan for the future of the province's healthtech and biotech sector, with an internal draft

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EnPoint Eyes Established Professionals

  • Feb 11, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Four years after Halifax mentorship software startup EnPoint soft launched its product, the company has worked with more than 90 organizations and close to 250,000 people, CEO Chantal Brine said in an interview Friday.

The news follows Brine having

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Tribe, Volta to Collaborate

  • Feb 08, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Two Halifax startup hubs, Tribe Network and Volta, are collaborating to launch a new accelerator program for Black entrepreneurs, called Accelerate Black Tech.

Volta will provide coaching and advisory services for startups, while Tribe will provide

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Elanco Aqua Sold for C$1.75B

  • Feb 07, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Indiana pharmaceuticals giant Elanco Animal Health has sold its Prince Edward Island operation, a stalwart of the province’s life sciences cluster, to Merck & Co. for US$1.3 billion, or C$1.75 billion.

Elanco’s business unit for aquaculture

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UNB, Dal, MUN Shine in STEM Rankings

  • Feb 07, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

A trio of Atlantic Canadian universities are offering STEM programs ranked among the top 20 percent globally by Times Higher Education’s prestigious World University Rankings, which rate the quality of post-secondary institutions.

The University of

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