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NBIF To Back Six Funds with $3.5M

  • Oct 12, 2023
  • Peter Moreira
The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced it will back six Canadian investment groups with a total of $3.5 million this year to help attract more capital to the province’s startups.

At the InnovateNB reception Thursday night, NBIF Chief

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Analysis: SDTC in Atlantic Canada

  • Oct 11, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

With conflict of interest allegations leading Sustainable Development Technology Canada to temporarily halt new funding anouncements, East Coast cleantech founders are likely to be less affected than those elsewhere in the country because they were

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Sandpiper Among Five Recipients of $25M

  • Oct 11, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Atlantic Canadian venture capital firm Sandpiper Ventures, which specializes in backing female-owned businesses, is one of five organizations nationally to receive a combined $25 million from the federal government via BDC and Innovation, Science

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Halifax Partnership Wins International Awards

  • Oct 10, 2023
  • Carol Moreira

Economic development agency Halifax Partnership is celebrating receiving four international awards.

They are three gold and one silver 2023 Excellence in Economic Development Awards from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC).

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KorrAI Launches OGMS

  • Oct 09, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s KorrAI, which uses artificial intelligence to help assess satellite images of infrastructure and mining sites, has launched a new, free software platform for assessing ground movement in population centres, which can indicate risks like

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Frenter Joins Plug and Play Accelerator

  • Oct 09, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based Frenter, which sells asset-management and geofencing software for heavy equipment, is joining the Alberta chapter of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup funding group Plug and Play’s accelerator program, batch 4.

Frenter is one of 18

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Harvard’s Sam Magee, Journo Gordon Pitts to Speak in Fredericton

  • Oct 05, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship will host its Future of Innovation in Canada conference Oct. 17, exploring the latest trends and talking-points in the innovation economy.

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Propel Announces 14 Traction and Growth Startups

  • Oct 05, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Online startup accelerator Propel has announced 14 businesses joining the fall cohort of its Traction and Growth accelerator for scaling companies.

Traction and Growth is meant for startups with more developed operations than those in Propel’s

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Tribe To Host Entrevestor Live

  • Oct 05, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

We’re thrilled to announce that Entrevestor Live will be held this year in collaboration with Tribe Network in downtown Halifax at their new office location, 1717 Barrington Street.

This announcement is more than just a change of location from our

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Innovatia co-CEOs Receive InnovateNB Hall of Fame Nod

  • Oct 05, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The co-CEOs of Saint John technology company Innovatia, Roxanne Fairweather and Dave Grebenc, have been inducted into industry group InnovateNB’s Hall of Fame.

Innovatia, which helps businesses develop and implement their internal

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Glas Ocean Wins US Defense Contract

  • Oct 04, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Glas Ocean Electric, which is developing technology to electrify boats and optimize their energy performance, has won a contract from the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

The company issued a

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Food for Thought Eyes Expansion in US, Canada

  • Oct 04, 2023
  • Carol Moreira

Growing out of the crisis of the pandemic, Halifax-based Food for Thought Software Solutions, a company that provides stigma-free school meals to kids in need, is using its participation in a U.S. EdTech program to expand.

The

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