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Ring Rescue Inks US Distribution Deal

  • Dec 20, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Dartmouth’s Ring Rescue, which now sells its system for removing stuck jewelry in eight countries, has inked a distribution deal with fire and emergency supplies distributor Team Equipment to make its product available to more than 200 sellers in

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Fraser Calls 2021 Transformational

  • Dec 19, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Malcolm Fraser is categorizing 2021 as an “unbelievable” year for Innovacorp, highlighted by the $104 million exit from Meta Materials Inc., the largest exit in the venture capital agency’s history.

In a year-end interview, the CEO of the Nova

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Four Eyes Prepares for Series A

  • Dec 16, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

In the wake of doubling both its team and its client count over the last 18 months, Saint John regulatory software startup Four Eyes Financial is hiring another five people and preparing for a Series A funding round in early 2022.

The 31-person

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Supercluster Announces Two Projects for $3.6M

  • Dec 15, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a pair of new projects worth a combined $3.6 million -- one to remotely monitor work being conducted at offshore sites and one to develop risk assessment and crisis management strategies.

The remote

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Alongside Buys CareerBeacon

  • Dec 15, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Alongside, the Moncton-based maker of human resources software, has acquired CareerBeacon for an undisclosed price, allowing the development team to take control of the job board and plot its expansion.

The Moncton company announced the purchase of

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Bluetech Founders: Please Fill Out Our Survey

  • Dec 14, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

At Entrevestor, we're in the process of preparing our annual data reports for 2021, including our first pan-Canadian Oceantech Data Report, which will be made available to the general public early in 2022.

If you head up an oceantech startup in

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IDG Communications Buys LeadSift

  • Dec 14, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based LeadSift, whose software helps tech companies identify sales leads, has been acquired by Boston-based media company IDG Communications for an undisclosed price.

The two companies issued a press release today announcing the deal, and

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Sankara Wins BMO Celebrating Women Grant

  • Dec 13, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

Lily Lynch, co-founder of Saint John-based online multicultural marketplace Sankara, is one of 18 women recognized by the BMO Celebrating Women Grant.

Nationally, nearly a thousand women business owners applied for the grant that recognizes a

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Trophi.ai Races Through Seed Round

  • Dec 12, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based Trophi.ai, which is developing artificial intelligence software for e-sports coaching and eventually real-world sports, has raised a round of seed funding led by Halifax’s Concrete Ventures and several angel investors. 

Co-founded

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Volta To Host Media Relations Seminar

  • Dec 12, 2021
  • Carol Moreira

The Halifax-based startup hub Volta will host a seminar on media relations for startups next month, led by Entrevestor principal Peter Moreira.

The free seminar will be a hybrid in-person and online event to be held Jan. 12, starting at noon.

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Gaia To Produce Natural Gas for Rockets

  • Dec 09, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

A Saint John entrepreneur plans to tap Atlantic Canada’s high winds for carbon capture projects that she hopes will help power the space industry, with a working prototype slated for completion next year.

Tammy Cai is a Memorial University-trained

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DuaScript Wins Pitch & Pick

  • Dec 08, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

DuaScript, which makes software for compounding pharmacies, has won St. John’s-based Genesis’s Pitch & Pick competition, amid a field of heavily software-focused competitors.

The company, founded by pharmacist Jonathan Edwards, is building software

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