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Compusult To Lead $6.3M Mapping Project
Mount Pearl, NL-based Compusult, a geospatial software company, is leading a new $6.3 million project announced by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster last week to help chart the country’s coastline.
The supercluster issued a press release unveiling the
Memorial Students to Consult for Startups
Memorial University’s Research Innovation Office is accepting applications from startups for its Insight Business Consulting Program, which will see its master of business administration students consult for early-stage technology companies.
The
Trade Accelerator Coming Jan. 16
Invest Nova Scotia and the Halifax Chamber of Commerce are looking for applicants to its Atlantic Trade Accelerator Program, or TAP, designed to help young businesses tap international markets.
The program includes workshops, peer-to-peer
Invest Nova Scotia Names Accelerate Cohort
Invest Nova Scotia, the new provincial Crown corporation formed from the amalgamation of Innovacorp and Nova Scotia Business Inc., has announced 10 startups joining its Accelerate program.
Previously operated by Innovacorp, the Accelerate program
Black Start-Up Project Pitch Competition Now Dec. 13
Tribe Network has extended the application deadline for its Black Start-Up Project's pitch competition and rescheduled the pitching event itself.
The original application deadline was Nov. 18. Now, applications close today, Dec. 2 at noon, and
Launching our 2022 Bluetech Survey
At Entrevestor, we’re launching our second annual survey for oceantech startups across Canada, and we’re looking for founders willing to take a few minutes to complete it.
We produce two major reports each year. Early in 2023 we will release our
UNB’s Apex Competition Coming in January
The University of New Brunswick’s Apex Business Plan Competition -- which features $30,000 in prizes -- will be held using a hybrid online and in-person model in January after taking place virtually in 2022.
The event, organized by UNB’s
Three Atlantic Companies in Entrepreneurship World Cup
On Thursday, three of the seven companies pitching in the Canadian finals of the Entrepreneurship World Cup will be from Atlantic Canada: St.John’s-based PragmaClin Research, and Halifax’s MOC Biotechnologies and Hollo Medical.
The competition is
Good Robot Opens Contract Manufacturing Plant
Good Robot Brewing, the popular Halifax seller of craft beer, is opening a new production facility aimed at sharing manufacturing resources among the region’s beverage makers and allowing them to achieve the scale necessary to target international
GoodLeaf Plans Montreal Facility
Guelph, Ont.- and Bible Hill, NS-based vertical farming startup GoodLeaf Farms has announced that it will open a production facility in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil with the help of a $7 million loan from the Government of Quebec.
Slated to
GreenSage Raising Angel Round, Preps for Launch
Halifax- and Ontario-based GreenSage Prebiotics has been accepted into Charlottetown’s Emergence virtual incubator for life sciences companies and is raising a $700,000 angel round as it prepares to commercialize its fish food supplement in early
Bluetech: Whale Seeker Lands $529K Contract
Montreal-based Whale Seeker has been awarded a $529,000 contract from Innovative Solutions Canada to use its artificial intelligence technology to analyze Arctic marine mammal stocks.
The parties issued a press release last week saying Whale Seeker