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Panag To Be Sold for up to $27M

  • Nov 20, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Panag Pharma, which is making pain-relief products from natural compounds found in cannabis plants, has agreed to be bought for as much as $27 million by Ontario’s Tetra Bio-Pharma.

Based in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans, Tetra is a

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17 Startups Tap Innovacorp Programs

  • Nov 20, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp has awarded a total of $725,000 to 17 different companies under its Accelerate Program and Start-Up Yard Cohorts.

The Nova Scotia Crown corporation last week revealed the winners of the two programs, which provide non-dilutive funding,

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BreatheSuite Preps 30-Person Test

  • Nov 19, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

BreatheSuite is about to launch a 30-person test of its new inhaler technology, whose purpose is to ensure people use common inhaler devices correctly.

BreatheSuite is a new company based in St. John’s that has developed software and hardware that

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Event for Tech Cos Keen to Expand in U.S.

  • Nov 19, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Fredericton's entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch and the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) have announced a lunch-and-learn event for scaling tech companies interested in learning how to scale and expand in the U.S.

In a panel format, expert

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Dal Hosts Techstars Startup Weekend

  • Nov 19, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

This weekend, Dalhousie’s entrepreneurship centre Launch Dal will host its annual Startup Weekend.

This event, the 13th, pledges to help entrepreneurs take steps toward creating a business, becoming a founder, and connecting with the right people

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CarbonCure Enters the Asian Market

  • Nov 18, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

CarbonCure Technologies, the Halifax CleanTech company, is moving into the Asian market with a strategic partnership with Pan-United Corp., the leading concrete and cement company in Singapore.

They announced the deal Sunday, saying the Singapore

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More Diversity in St. John’s Startups

  • Nov 18, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Genesis, the St. John’s startup house affiliated with Memorial University, has been on a mission to increase diversity among the companies it supports. And it’s generating some data that highlight its success.

For a few years, CEO Michelle Simms

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Kinley’s AIR Eyes Digital Product

  • Nov 15, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Institute for Resilience is going digital.

AIR, as it’s known, was founded by Halifax psychiatrist Jackie Kinley in 2014 as a private enterprise that would help workers overcome stress and other mental health challenges. Kinley is now

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LeadSift Sales Rise After Pivot

  • Nov 14, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

When Tukan Das asked at a 2015 board meeting how he could improve staff morale, he didn’t think the answer would lead to the complete reboot of his company.

But the CEO of Halifax-based data analytics company LeadSift was soon leading his team

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McIntosh Recognized for Plato

  • Nov 14, 2018
  • By Dominyka Taylor

Keith McIntosh has been an entrepreneur for as long as he can remember. Now, he’s won national recognition for using his skills to help Indigenous people find work.

Growing up on a farm, meant McIntosh used the same valuable business skills that he

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Launch of The Haight Set for Nov. 21

  • Nov 14, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

If you’re not doing anything next Wednesday evening, please come out and join us for the Halifax launch of The Haight at the Dalhousie University Faculty Club.

As many of you may know, Poplar Press of New Jersey recently published my first crime

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Amplify Reveals Best Sales Practices

  • Nov 13, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Entrepreneurs and mentors from across Atlantic Canada came together Tuesday to learn winning methods to ramp up their sales from global (and local) leaders in the field.

They were in Halifax to attend the second annual Amplify event, organized by

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