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We Need Help from Founders

  • Mar 17, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

We really need the help of founders in completing our annual research of Atlantic Canada’s startup community.

Our ask: three minutes of your time.

We’re now surveying startups in the region to establish the metrics for our annual Atlantic Canada

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Zen Electric Raises Capital, Readying for Mass Production

  • Mar 15, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s Zen Electric has raised $1.25 million from Nigerian utility company North South Power as it eyes commercialization of its technology in South Asia.

Zen was originally founded by Ravindra Kempaiah to make electric bicycles under the name

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Navigate to Host Pro-Social Hackathon

  • Mar 15, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Sydney-based Protocase is sponsoring a hackathon at innovation hub Navigate Startup House this month aimed at solving socioeconomic problems in Cape Breton.

The event will run for 12 hours on March 25 and four hours on March 26, with a $1,500 prize

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Redefining ‘The Blue Economy’

  • Mar 15, 2023
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based research group eOceans has come up with a definition for the “Blue Economy” that only includes activities that are tied to ocean health.

Some academics and some experts in southern hemisphere countries use a similar definition, and

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Dal Innovates Seeks Launch Applicants

  • Mar 14, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Dalhousie University’s Dal Innovates startup hub has opened applications to the three summer cohorts of its Lab2Market Launch Accelerator, which will include an Atlantic research stream, a national health stream and a generalized Atlantic stream.

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Oneka to Head $14M OSC Project

  • Mar 14, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Sherbrooke, Que,-based Oneka Technologies, which recently opened an office at the Dartmouth-Based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, will head up a new Ocean Supercluster project to install a wave-powered desalination system off the

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What #Startupeast Needs to Know About the SVB Implosion

  • Mar 13, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

On Friday, a lynchpin of the American startup ecosystem failed. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed under a bank run and was seized by California regulators.

Startup founders wondered aloud on social media about the extent to which Canadian companies

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Uber Angel Calacanis Backs Frenter

  • Mar 12, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax inventory management platform Frenter was one of seven startups Saturday to pitch in the demo day for Silicon Valley’s Launch accelerator, co-founded by Jason Calacanis — a prominent angel investor known for being an early backer of Uber and

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Kraken Signs Subsea Cabling Deal

  • Mar 12, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s marine robotics company Kraken Robotics, which was the top performing tech stock on the TSX Venture exchange last year, has announced a lucrative new deal to participate in survey work in the North Sea.

Under the contract with Dutch

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Barrington Edge Launches Blockchain ESG for Seafood

  • Mar 09, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax startup consultancy and professional services firm Barrington Edge has launched a blockchain-based supply chain tracking platform under a collaboration with one of its clients, Kelowna, B.C.’s FutureWELL.

The new platform, dubbed Authen,

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Supercluster Seeks Oceans AI Projects

  • Mar 09, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

With a refreshed five-year mandate from the federal government, Canada's Ocean Supercluster is calling for applicants to its new artificial intelligence program, which will spend $20 million to fund research and commercialization work from blue

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Apply for Future Capital’s Women in Tech

  • Mar 09, 2023
  • Carol Moreira

Networking group Future Capital and BDC’s Thrive Venture Fund have got together to deliver startup investing training to women across Canada.

The program, open to accredited and non-accredited investors, will focus on providing a safe and open

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