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Volta, McInnes Cooper Form Partnership

  • Jul 25, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Volta Labs, one of Canada’s largest innovation hubs, and national law firm McInnes Cooper have announced a corporate partnership.

McInnes Cooper will join Volta in its new 60,000 sq. ft. space with a permanent satellite office, making

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ACOA, NBIF Give $5.5M to UNB Centre

  • Jul 25, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are providing a total of $5.5 million in funding to the Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence at the University of New Brunswick.

The two agencies said in

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Densitas Signs with UK Hospital Group

  • Jul 25, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Densitas, a breast imaging analytics innovator, has signed a partnership with Leeds Teaching Hospitals in the U.K. to bring its breast screening technologies into routine clinical workflow.

The Densitas software provides an automated

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LaunchPad 2018 Demo Day

  • Jul 24, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Participants in LaunchDal’s LaunchPad Accelerator will showcase their ventures at its fifth annual Demo Day on August 7. Participating ventures include an online convenience store and a company that is creating a software for mental health.

The

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Contact Lenses for the Colour Blind

  • Jul 24, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

You may have seen those tear-jerking YouYube videos in which colourblind people use special glasses to see the world in full colour for the first time. Until now, those heavily tinted glasses are the only market solution that lets colourblind folks

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Startup Zone to Host Invest Atlantic

  • Jul 24, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

The ninth annual Invest Atlantic conference will take place in Charlottetown this year, checking off all four provinces as hosts of the pan-Atlantic conference.

Invest Atlantic, which started in 2010, was initially based in Halifax. This September,

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UNB TME Celebrates 13 Startups

  • Jul 22, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Thirteen entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial teams took to the stage in Fredericton on Thursday as UNB TME held its summer send-off for two of its programs.

The University of New Brunswick’s Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program began by

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Google Film To Highlight NS Seniors

  • Jul 19, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

A team from Google has been in Nova Scotia this week filming a pilot project that uses Google Home to improve the lives of seniors.

For the past three months, a team led by entrepreneur John Hamblin has been working with the voice-activated product

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Adaptiiv Receives 510(k) Clearance

  • Jul 19, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Adaptiiv, a Halifax-based medical technology company, has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell its 3D Bolus Software in the United States.

Formerly known as 3DBolus, Adaptiiv has developed software that works

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Supercluster Eyes Projects This Year

  • Jul 18, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The Ocean Supercluster this week is undertaking a road-show throughout Atlantic Canada, outlining how companies can participate in research and development spending expected to be worth as much as $360 million over the next five years.

The group,

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Farrar named CEO of Startup Zone

  • Jul 17, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Startup Zone, Prince Edward Island's startup incubator, has named Patrick Farrar, the Co-Founder and former COO of Venture for Canada, as its new CEO.

Startup Zone provides resident companies with a workspace, advice in professional services like

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PEI Game Studios Sign Deals

  • Jul 17, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee and Peter Moreira

Two indie video game development companies based in Prince Edward Island have signed exclusive publishing deals with Toronto-based game publisher, Throwback Entertainment.

Throwback announced last month that it had signed the deals to publish

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