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Kognitiv Spark, ACOA Fund AR Lab
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Kognitiv Spark, the Fredericton maker of augmented reality software, will jointly fund a new augmented reality lab at the University of New Brunswick.
Dubbed the Spatial Computing Education, Training &
Four Atlantic Companies Receive SDTC Grants
Four Atlantic Canadian startups are among a group of 25 companies nationally to receive funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada to develop cleantech or circular economy products.
The federal agency thia week announced grants of
SMU Seeks Startups to Pitch at VCIC
The Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax will host this year’s Canadian edition of the Venture Capital Investment Competition on March 3 and is calling for startups to participate.
The VCIC is an international competition
Milk Moovement Countersues Dairy LLC
Halifax’s Milk Moovement is embroiled in a trade secrets and antitrust legal battle in the United States with one of its competitors, Texas-based Dairy LLC.
Milk Moovement, which last summer raised a US$20 million Series A funding round, was sued
Planet Hatch Offers Accelerator for Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Fredericton startup hub Planet Hatch has opened applications for its Business Immigrant Essentials Accelerator, which promises entrepreneurship training tailored to the specific needs of new Canadians.
The five-week program will offer participants
MIMOSA CEO Cross Receives Toronto Star Nod
Dr. Karen Cross, the CEO of Volta resident company MIMOSA Diagnostics, has made The Toronto Star’s list of fourteen Canadian entrepreneurs to watch this year.
Cross, a native of Newfoundland and Labrador who is now based in Halifax, is a plastic
Kraken Robotics Made $40M Revenue in 2022
St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics has hired a new chief technology officer in the wake of finishing its absorption of fellow Newfoundland and Labrador company PanGeo Subsea and increasing its annual revenue by more than 50 percent.
Founded by former
Fintech Incubator Now Available to Atlantic Companies
Industry group Atlantic Fintech and incubator Fintech Cadence have inked a deal to make the Montreal innovation hub’s online training and support services available to East Coast startups.
The Fintech Hub, as Fintech Cadence dubs its service, is a
Dal Innovates Seeks Collide Applicants
Dal Innovates has opened applications for the winter cohort of its Collide training program for budding entrepreneurs.
Aimed specifically at university students, the Collide program promises to teach participants the basics of customer discovery
ReelData Raises US$8M
ReelData, the Halifax company that makes artificial intelligence for land-based aquaculture, has raised a US$8 million (C$10.7 million) Series A funding round as it looks to commercialize its second product offering next quarter.
ReelData’s first
Cleantech Event Set for Fredericton Feb. 23
The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and provincial business development agency Opportunities New Brunswick will host their R3 climatetech summit in-person this February at the Fredericton Convention Centre.
WeUsThem Spins Off HealthEMe
WeUsThem, the Halifax ad agency, has spun off its software business unit into a new startup, HealthEMe, which is raising a roughly $1 million seed round.
HealthEMe’s first product is imTEEN, which was originally released by WeUsThem and allows