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Number of Startups Rose 4.4% to 805

  • Apr 16, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

As we begin to dig through the data for our coming report on the Atlantic Canadian startup community, one theme that is emerging is the slowing growth of the community overall.

The preliminary data we’ve accrued so far shows there were 805 startups

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GIT Raises $10.2M

  • Apr 14, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax-based marine coatings maker Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, has closed a $10.2 million Series A funding round led by BDC Capital’s ClimateTech Fund as it looks to scale up its commercialization activities.

Also investing is

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COVE to Host Pitch Session With VCs

  • Apr 13, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE, is adding a new feature to its annual Demo Day this year: a pitch session with representatives from 10 bluetech startups and 10 venture capital firms.

The event dubbed

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Goldsworthy Named COAST Executive Director

  • Apr 13, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The Victoria-based Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies, or COAST, has announced veteran bluetech and industrial executive Jason Goldsworthy as its new executive director.

Goldworthy was previously Vancouver Island operations manager

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Pulse Health to Host “Startup Crawl”

  • Apr 11, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Pulse Innovation, a Halifax-based industry network for health professionals involved in commercializing innovative medical technologies, will host a “Startup Crawl” networking event in Halifax April 27 featuring headline-making supply chain software

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Invest Nova Scotia Names Accelerate Cohort

  • Apr 11, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Invest Nova Scotia has announced 11 companies joining the first 2023 cohort of its Accelerate startup program.

Accelerate offers participating companies 5 months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding.

Accelerate, which

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Volta To Move to Armoyan Centre

  • Apr 11, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based innovation hub Volta today announced it will move its operations this fall to the Armoyan Centre at 1800 Argyle Street, the former World Trade Centre building.

The decade-old startup support organization until recently occupied the

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BSides Conference Coming to Halifax

  • Apr 10, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

This year’s edition of BSides Halifax, which is a community-run cybersecurity conference, is coming May 4.

The BSides conferences, held at numerous locations around the world, are a franchise of information security gatherings that offer event

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Shift Energy Signs Cadillac Fairview Deal

  • Apr 06, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Mariner Partners-owned Shift Energy has reached a deal to roll out its artificial intelligence technology for managing electricity consumption across 10 Toronto area buildings owned by commercial property giant Cadillac Fairview.

Shift’s

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GIT to Coat 25 U.K.-owned Tankers

  • Apr 06, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, has inked a two-year deal to apply its new coating for ship propellers to 25 vessels owned by London, U.K.-based tanker company Stolt Tankers.

Stolt Tankers is the shipping division of

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Veer Group Readies Hydrogen Container Ship

  • Apr 05, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Veer Group, the brainchild of Lunenburg, N.S.-based shipping entrepreneur Danielle Southcott, is raising capital and searching for a manufacturing partner for its planned hydrogen- and wind-powered container ships.

So far, CEO Southcott said in an

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Propel Names Gerry Pond Award Finalists

  • Apr 05, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Virtual startup accelerator Propel has announced the finalists for its annual Gerry Pond Sales Award, with food-related startups making a strong showing.

The Gerry Pond Award is an annual, $25,000 cash prize in honour of former NBTel CEO and Aliant

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