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Invest NS Seeks Applicants for Commercialization Fund
Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to the winter cohort of its Early Stage Commercialization Fund for university research, which offers startups up to $50,000 of funding.
The money can go towards assessing a product’s market potential,
Halifax Partnership Backs 6 Foodtech Projects
The Halifax Partnership has announced the six winners of its Circular Food Solution Challenge, which will each receive $5,000 to pilot or test circular economy technologies for the food sector over the next three months.
The competition was hosted
ASETS-CA Raises Seed Round
ASETS-CA hopes to make engineering work as simple as playing a video game, according to CEO Ashwini Oke, and the Fredericton maker of computer-aided design, or CAD, software now has significantly more funds with which to achieve that goal after
Woveo Raises $2.3M
Fintech startup Woveo, which was originally founded in P.E.I. and is now headquartered in Calgary, has raised a $2.3 million seed round.
Woveo is a platform that lets users pool their money and take turns borrowing from the collective fund without
Infusd Finds Early Traction
Infusd Nutrition has raised a round of angel funding and is working with 10 international beverage ingredient-makers to implement its technology in their businesses under licensing deals, just months after the Halifax startup launched.
Infusd was
Volta Opens Demo Camp Applications
Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to its annual Democamp, which gives young companies the chance to showcase their technology for investors and other innovation community members.
Slated to be held at Volta’s new, Argyle Street
Here’s Who Pitched at the Genesis Evolution Showcase
Genesis, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub, held a demo day for graduates of its Evolution accelerator last week, with seven companies participating.
Evolution is a “pre-incubator” course meant to prepare young companies for longer
For City Planning, Black Arcs Takes the Road Less Travelled
While large language models and neural networks have been the forms of artificial intelligence dominating headlines this year, a Fredericton company has been busy deploying a system for modelling human behaviour using a very different type of AI.
Invest NS Seeks Applicants to Digital Marketing Program
Economic development agency Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to its Digital Marketing Asset Development Program, which is a training program for product-based companies looking to attend national or international sales events within the
Begin.AI Personalizes Gaming
The type of user personalization usually found on social media websites could soon become common in video games thanks to the efforts of a Halifax-based artificial intelligence founder.
Rima Al Shikh is the entrepreneur behind Begin.AI, which has
Propel Receives $2.9M From ACOA
Virtual startup incubator Propel has received a $2.9 million grant from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, funding the organization through 2026.
The money builds on $1.05 million Propel received from the Nova Scotia government in May, some
ELi Fights School Shootings
ELi Technology, the Halifax maker of internet protocol-enabled location-tracking systems for 911 services, has partnered with Minnesota-based GeoComm and Amazon Web Services on a new school safety platform to help police and emergency crews respond