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Shortlist for InnovateNB Awards Released

  • Nov 17, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

The organizers of the first InnovateNB Awards, which will be handed out at a gala in Saint John on Tuesday, have announced the shortlist.

The shortlist features three finalists in each of eight categories, which include such fields as diversity and

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PhotoDynamic Begins “Controlled Launch”

  • Nov 17, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax dental technology startup PhotoDynamic has hired a new CEO to steer the company through the commercialization process.

Ying Tam, whose last job was as managing director of health at Toronto startup hub MaRS Discovery District, succeeds

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Deloitte Recognizes Symbodi, Milk Moovement

  • Nov 16, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Fredericton’s Symbodi and Halifax’s Milk Moovement were named to Deloitte Canada’s 2022 Companies To Watch list, after reporting revenue growth of 3,084 percent and 246 percent respectively over the past three years.

The global services company

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Jevon MacDonald’s New Startup

  • Nov 15, 2022
  • The serial entrepreneur and 2 Bay Area co-founders have launched Tier.

Jevon MacDonald, one of the pre-eminent tech entrepreneurs in the region, has launched a new venture after teaming up with two co-founders in the San Francisco area.

MacDonald, the former CEO of Manifold and GoInstant, earlier this year co-founded

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BIPOC entrepreneurs Asked to Pitch

  • Nov 15, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

The Black Startup Project is inviting BIPOC entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada to submit a two-minute video pitch on which they will receive personalized feedback from Black mentors, entrepreneurs, facilitators, and industry allies.

The top five

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PragmaClin Readies Trials

  • Nov 15, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based PragmaClin Research is preparing to test its system for monitoring Parkinson’s Disease patients in both Newfoundland and Labrador and Britain on the back of raising more than $1 million of non-dilutive funding since its founding.

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Appili, DoD Expand Vaccine Deal

  • Nov 14, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Armando Balboni, the CEO of Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics is leaving his role to become the company’s chairman and rejoin the United States military as Director of the Life Sciences Research Center at the United States Air Force

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Emergence Lands $3.2M in Funding

  • Nov 13, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

The PEI BioAlliance has received $3.18 million in funding from the governments of Canada and Prince Edward Island to help fund the next iteration of its Emergence Bioscience Business Incubator.

The federal government’s Atlantic Canada Opportunities

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The White Cross, By H.P. MacKeen

  • Nov 10, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

My grandfather, artillery officer H.P. MacKeen, shown on the left, wrote this poem in Ypres in September 1917, two months before the Battle of Passchendaele.

 

The White Cross

It isn’t a medal or order,

It carries no ribbon or braid

But a token

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MESH/Diversity Launches DEI Builder

  • Nov 09, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

MESH/Diversity, the New Brunswick company whose software helps organizations improve diversity and inclusion, has launched a new program to help human resource executives and others improve their skills.

The company announced recently that it is

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Atlantic Tech Summit Set for Next Week

  • Nov 09, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

The fourth annual Atlantic Technology Summit takes place next week in Halifax with highlights including a fireside chat between Dragons’ Den investor Michele Romanow and CBC host Nora Young.

Taking place next Wednesday, Nov.16, online and at the

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Shoelace’s Seed Round Has $3M First Close

  • Nov 08, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax edtech company Shoelace Learning, which specializes in the gamification of learning, has announced the $3 million first close of its seed round, which it hopes will soon reach $4.5 million.

The company plans to use the money to add three

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