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Infusd Enters Trade Accelerator

  • Jan 16, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s Infusd Nutrition is the only Atlantic Canadian startup out of eight companies to be accepted into this year’s cohort of the federal Trade Commissioner’s Canadian Technology Accelerator for foodtech.

The four-month program offers

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Ocean Supercluster Seeks AI Projects

  • Jan 15, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is seeking proposals for projects focused on integrating artificial intelligence into the blue economy.

The call is part of a broader, Canada-wide initiative by the Supercluster to foster innovations in oceans AI,

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OceanSync Tracks Maritime Weather

  • Jan 15, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

With the help of sensors mounted on customer ships, Halifax’s OceanSync is commercializing a potential solution to a longstanding challenge for the marine industry: that of obtaining reliable weather data.

Chief executive Sebastiaan Ambtman, who

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BMO Apex Startup Challenge Invites Participation

  • Jan 14, 2024
  • Carol Moreira

Audiences are invited to attend two days of pitching contests and awards events at University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus.

On Thursday, January 25, the Elevator Pitch Competition and Networking Reception will see 30 teams from UNB and

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Shift Energy Expands in U.S.

  • Jan 14, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Shift Energy, which uses machine learning to reduce energy use by large buildings’ climate control systems, is focusing its business development efforts on a major expansion push in the United States, senior vice president of strategic alliances

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Carbide Launches Trust Centre

  • Jan 11, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Cape Breton’s Carbide has launched a new tool, called Trust Centre, for software-as-a-service companies to share elements of their information security programs with clients.

Carbide, which was co-founded in 2017 by entrepreneurs Laird Wilton and

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Invest NS Seeks Accelerate Applicants

  • Jan 11, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Invest Nova Scotia is seeking applicants for this year's first cohort of its Accelerate startup program.

Accelerate offers companies four months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding, as well as weekly one-on-one coaching

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Bonocle Enters Commercialization

  • Jan 10, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based Bonocle is turning its attention to commercialization in the new year as it looks to bring its accessibility tool for interacting with smartphones and tablets via braille to market in North America and the Middle East.

Founded in

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Shift Energy Signs Edge Computing Deal

  • Jan 10, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Saint John-based Shift Energy, which uses machine learning to control energy use in large complexes, has announced an agreement to use U.K.-based edge computing specialist IOTech’s software in its products.

Shift Energy is a subsidiary of

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The Year in Innovation Stocks

  • Jan 09, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

While later-stage companies were the stars of Atlantic Canada’s private capital market last year, their publicly traded counterparts had a rockier 2023.

Of the six publicly traded startups that were operating in Atlantic Canada last January, two

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Solace Power, Gentex Sign Deal

  • Jan 08, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Solace Power, a Newfoundland and Labrador company that has developed a portfolio of wireless power technologies for commercial applications, has signed a partnership deal with Michigan-based automotive supply company Gentex, which is also investing

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Research Funding Strong at $454M

  • Jan 07, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Research funding flowing to Atlantic Canadian universities fell slightly in 2023 to $454.3 million, according to data from business intelligence and consulting company Research InfoSource, down from $468.2 million the year prior.

The funding tally

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