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Clean Leadership Seeks Summer Employers

  • Dec 06, 2022
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Clean Leadership Summer Internship Program is seeking employers to offer summer employment to youth interested in a career in the green economy.

The group’s summer program matches employers with interns (age 15-30) for 9 to 15-week

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Densitas, Nuance Precision Imaging Sign Deal

  • Dec 05, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax medical imaging startup Densitas has signed a deal to incorporate its technology into the Nuance Precision Imaging Network — an American cloud storage and artificial intelligence platform for medical imaging — making it accessible to about

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Compusult To Lead $6.3M Mapping Project

  • Dec 05, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Memorial Students to Consult for Startups

  • Dec 04, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Trade Accelerator Coming Jan. 16

  • Dec 04, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Invest Nova Scotia Names Accelerate Cohort

  • Dec 01, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Black Start-Up Project Pitch Competition Now Dec. 13

  • Dec 01, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Launching our 2022 Bluetech Survey

  • Nov 30, 2022
  • Peter Moreira

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

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UNB’s Apex Competition Coming in January

  • Nov 30, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Three Atlantic Companies in Entrepreneurship World Cup

  • Nov 30, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Good Robot Opens Contract Manufacturing Plant

  • Nov 29, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

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

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GoodLeaf Plans Montreal Facility

  • Nov 29, 2022
  • Avery Mullen

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

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