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Four Healthtech Startups Leveraging Software

  • Jun 26, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Information technology businesses are not just the largest group of startups in Atlantic Canada. They dwarf every other sector, accounting for almost two-thirds of all East Coast startups at the end of 2023. If there is a challenger for the most

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Stethophone Adds AI

  • Jun 25, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

St. John's-based Sparrow Bioacoustics has launched Version 3 of its stethoscope app, now integrating AI analysis, with the company releasing it first in Ukraine.

The move builds on a pilot program that has involved Ukrainian cardiology clinics

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Envisioning a New Atlantic Angel Network

  • Jun 23, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

Claudio Rojas, the CEO of NACO Canada, flew into Fredericton on Thursday to discuss solutions to the decline in angel funding in Atlantic Canada.

Rojas was attending the launch of Entrevestor’s 2023 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report at an event

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Raymex Lift Plans Regulatory Bid

  • Jun 21, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

When Tracy McGillivray and Liam Maaskant set out to design a better mobility aid in the fall of 2019, they split up and conducted their ideation work separately. When they reconvened two weeks later, they discovered they had arrived at nearly the

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Our 2023 Data Report Launches Today

  • Jun 20, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

The East Coast startup community experienced record numbers of company launches and failures last year while most of the best continued to grow strongly, says Entrevestor’s 2023 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report, which we’re launching today.

Our

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TrojAI Expands in Fredericton

  • Jun 20, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Two months after it raised a US$5.75 million or C$7.77 million funding round, Saint John cybersecurity startup TrojAI has roughly tripled its presence in Fredericton with the opening of a new office in the city.

Founded by James Stewart and Stephen

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CM Marine Aims for Better Life Jacket

  • Jun 19, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

In the 1960s, Cape Breton fisherman Floyd Mackenzie nearly drowned in an accident that ultimately claimed the life of a different crew member.

Mackenzie and his “hired man,” Ernest Brown, were jumping from their fishing boat into a dory. The

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Entrevestor Live: Early Bird Price Ends June 30

  • Jun 19, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Innovation aficionados looking to save on tickets for this year's Entrevestor Live startup conference have until June 30 to sign up at our early-bird price of $70.

The half-day conference, to be hosted by startup specialist Permjot Valia, will take

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Six Companies Win Spark Competition

  • Jun 18, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Six winners of the annual Spark Nova Scotia competition for rural, coastal and edtech startups were announced during an event Tuesday, beating out 64 other applicants.

The winning companies in each of three regions — Cape Breton, Nova Scotia North

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Information Economy Leads Hiring: Halifax Index

  • Jun 16, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The information economy is Halifax’s fastest-growing employer, though the university programs that feed skilled workers into the innovation ecosystem have seen their student bodies decrease, according to the Halifax Partnership economic development

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Tribe Seeks Start Small Applicants

  • Jun 16, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Tribe Network, the Halifax-based startup support organization for BIPOC founders, has announced funding of $500 to $1,000 for BIPOC entrepreneurs via its Start Small grants.

The grants are one-time, but also come with mentorship and educational

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Marine Electrification Framework Needed: Industry

  • Jun 13, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Earlier this month, top brass from the marine industry, including both international and regional players, met in Halifax to discuss the future of electrification and the role Atlantic Canada could play.

The verdict, according to moderator Brent

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