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Ocean Supercluster Unveils Innovation Projects

  • Jan 16, 2025
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Retellio Closes $1.3M VC Round

  • Jan 15, 2025
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BMO Apex Startup Challenge Coming to Fredericton

  • Jan 15, 2025

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Rise Books $3M Annual Revenue

  • Jan 18, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Rise, the Fredericton B-Crop specializing in sustainable home renovation materials, reached $3 million of revenue in its second year of sales and hit break-even.

The progress comes as Rise looks to concurrently raise $850,000 from angel investors

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3D BioFibR Scaleup Project Receives $1.3M Funding

  • Jan 18, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax life sciences startup 3D BioFibR and collaborator PlantForm Corporation, headquartered in Toronto, are receiving $1.3 million from industry group Next Generation Manufacturing Canada, or NGen.

The money will fund efforts by the two

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TheraPBios to Expand Bioteem40 Line Nationally

  • Jan 17, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Probiotics and nutritional supplements are billion-dollar industries in Canada. A Windsor, N.S. company aims to combine them.

TheraPBios PHARMA, doing business as Bioteem40, sells a range of nutritional supplements that include both probiotics and

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NBCC Links Groups and Researchers

  • Jan 17, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

New Brunswick Community College has launched a program allowing public and private sector organizations to spend $25,000 for six months of work from an NBCC researcher as part of a push by the institution to promote digital readiness in industry.

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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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