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Hacking Health Set for March in NL

  • Feb 19, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Bounce Health Innovation, the life sciences support group in Newfoundland and Labrador, will hold its second annual Hacking Health St. John’s Hackathon on March 1-3.

Like Startup Weekend, Hacking Health is an international organization that brings

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Vertiball Launches Kickstarter Drive

  • Feb 19, 2019
  • Cherise Letson, Huddle

A New Brunswick entrepreneur wants to change the way people approach treating muscle pain.

Curtis Kennedy is the founder of Vertiball, a portable, mountable, rolling massager. The company launched its Kickstarter campaign to manufacture its first

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Liftoff Is Part of John Swan’s Legacy

  • Feb 18, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Jake Swan started Liftoff Capital to help entrepreneurs link up with investors, peers and mentors, but now he sees it as part of the legacy of his late father, the Saint John tech entrepreneur John Swan.

Jake Swan grew up hearing his father, a

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Student Entrepreneurs at SMU for Conference

  • Feb 18, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Student entrepreneurs from across the country will be in Halifax on Tuesday to begin working with experienced entrepreneurs at the Starting Point Entrepreneurship Conference at Saint Mary’s University.

Starting Feb. 19, the three-day

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Securicy Launches Free Platform

  • Feb 14, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Sydney-based Securicy, which helps medium-sized enterprises meet the cybersecurity requirements of larger customers, has launched free tools to help startups protect their data.

The company announced Wednesday that its new platform is now live, and

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Densitas Partners with U.S. Beta User

  • Feb 14, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based breast imaging analytics company Densitas has announced a collaboration with TeleMammography Specialists of Decatur, Georgia, that will improve the quality of breast screening offered to more than 60,000 women annually.  

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Propel Adds Six Board Members

  • Feb 13, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Propel, the Atlantic Canadian tech accelerator, has almost doubled the size of its board with the appointment of new directors, drawing from its pool of graduates and the broader business community.

The group said its 14-member board includes

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Bringing AI to Building Design

  • Feb 13, 2019
  • Avery Mullen

A team of Dalhousie University faculty members is creating engineering software to partly automate the design of buildings, and has already arranged two pilot projects with its solution.

Smart Engineering, co-founded by faculty members Reza Rahimi

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Startup Canada Seeks Award Entries

  • Feb 13, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Canada has opened nominations for its sixth annual Startup Canada Awards – a contest that Atlantic Canadians have always done well in.

Startup Canada, whose mission is to promote and nurture startups and entrepreneurship across the country,

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Picomole Wins Funding for Diagnostic Lung Cancer Device

  • Feb 12, 2019
  • Carol Moreira

Moncton-based medical technology company Picomole has announced non-dilutive funding for its breath analytics technology, which has the potential to be a low-cost and effective tool for cancer screening.

The announcement Tuesday revealed that the

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Novonix To Grow With $500K Loan

  • Feb 11, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Novonix Battery Testing Services Inc., which tests batteries used as alternative power sources, has borrowed $500,000 from the federal government to help develop a new manufacturing facility.

Bedford-based Novonix issued a statement on Monday

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Please Help Us With Our Survey

  • Feb 11, 2019
  • Peter Moreira

Today, we’re launching our campaign to ask the founders and CEOs of Atlantic Canadian startups to take two minutes to complete our 2018 survey.

We’re working with partners across the region to enhance our annual analysis of the Atlantic Canadian

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