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Innovation Den Seeks Competitors
The Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub and QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation are looking for applicants to their Innovation Den pitch competition, which offers companies up to $100,000 to bring new medical technologies to market.
The event,
GIT Approaches 300 Vessels Coated
When Marcel Gaier commutes to work these days, he often travels via a ferry treated with his own company’s environmentally friendly hull coating.
Gaier is the chief technology officer for GIT Coatings, previously Graphite Innovation and
Bluedrop Receives $449K from ACOA
Bluedrop Training and Simulation, a longtime player in the East Coast innovation economy, is receiving a $448,950 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to incorporate AI into its product offerings.
One half of an organization that also
Invest NS Seeks Agtech, Biotech, Cleantech
Provincial economic development agency Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to the next cohort of its GreenShoots accelerator, which offers up to $40,000 of funding.
GreenShoots offers agtech, biotech and cleantech companies funding and
Doris Grant to Lead NS Health Innovation Hub
Life Sciences Nova Scotia CEO Doris Grant will take on an additional role following a collaboration agreement between her industry group and Nova Scotia Health.
Grant has been announced as the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub’s new managing
Infusd Signs P.E.I. Partnership
Halifax supplements startup Infusd Nutrition has signed a partnership agreement with another, more mature life sciences company nearby in P.E.I., Natures Crops International.
Infusd, the creation of lawyer Jack MacDonald and chemical engineer David
BIOVECTRA To Be Sold for C$1.3B
BIOVECTRA, the Charlottetown drug maker that in 2019 was bought by Miami-based H.I.G. Capital for US$250 million, has reached an agreement to be sold again, this time for US$925 million or C$1.27 billion.
The deal with Santa Clara, California’s
Aucure Readies B2B AI
Two alumni of cybersecurity unicorn Verafin have returned to the startup world with an AI tool meant to help business-to-business product teams gather customer feedback, and just months after founding their new business, they have raised about
Project Nujio’qonik to Test Precious Metals Alternatives
John Risley’s World Energy GH2 plans to work with Dalhousie University to test a roster of potential replacements for the costly precious metals used in green hydrogen production — with the help of AI.
World Energy earlier this summer received
Axis Sales Accelerator Seeks Applicants
The University of New Brunswick is looking for applicants to its Saint John-based Axis Sales Accelerator, a 10-week program for business-to-business startups looking to grow their revenues and prepare to raise capital.
The program, which will begin
FURWARD Wins at MTME: NEXT
Six student teams from the University of New Brunswick’s Master of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship program pitched their startup ideas Thursday, with pet-sitting marketplace FURWARD taking home the $1,500 top prize.
The MTME program,
MIMOSA Wins Atlantic AI Healthtech Challenge
Just a month after it raised a funding round led by California’s Kern Venture Group, Halifax medtech startup MIMOSA Diagnostics is heading to Chicago in August to compete in the North American finals of the AI Healthtech Innovation Challenge.