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Ashored to Develop Whale-Safe Lobster Traps

  • Nov 19, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Ashored, the Dartmouth-based maker of fishing equipment that reduces accidental harm to marine animals such as whales, will head up a $1.4 million Ocean Supercluster project to develop a “rope-on-command” system for lobster and crab traps.

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Potential Motors to End “Stealth Mode”

  • Nov 18, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton electric vehicle startup Potential Motors has grown from 14 to 19 people this year and plans to have a minimum viable product ready for testing in 2022, CEO Sam Poirier said in an interview Thursday.

Founded in 2018 by a team of

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Introhive Scores Fast 50 Hat Trick

  • Nov 17, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Fredericton- and Miami-based Introhive has cracked the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards for the third year in a row, making it the first Atlantic Canadian company to score a hat trick in the rankings of Canada’s 50 fastest-growing tech companies.

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Region’s VC Activity Down in Q3

  • Nov 16, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Atlantic Canadian startups attracted a mere $10 million in venture capital in the third quarter, down from a whopping $135 million in the previous quarter, according to data released Tuesday by the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity

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Rally Bags $500K ACOA Loan

  • Nov 16, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Rally, the St. John’s maker of software for law firms, has bagged a $500,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency as it looks to hire seven new staff and ultimately reach 24 employees by 2023.

Rally sells software to help lawyers

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Atlantic Tech Summit Set for Nov. 17

  • Nov 15, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

The third annual Atlantic Tech Summit will be held on Wednesday, with the theme of “Building a Stronger Atlantic Tech Ecosystem”.

The day-long virtual event features a range of keynotes and panel discussions that showcase the progress the region

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Appili Has Disappointing Trial Results

  • Nov 14, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Shares of Appili Therapeutics shed more than half their value on Friday after the Halifax drug discovery company released disappointing trial results for a drug candidate intended to treat COVID-19.

The company released a statement before the

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Jobs: Dash Hudson Seeks Exec

  • Nov 14, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column today features a posting by Halifax-based social media monitoring company Dash Hudson, which is seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager in Halifax.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that

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Welkom-U Completes Pilot

  • Nov 11, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

When Welkom-U co-founder and COO Michael Olamide Ojolo landed in Fredericton as an international student, he travelled straight from the airport to his first class at the University of New Brunswick, arriving with his luggage in tow.

The reason for

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The White Cross, by H.P. MacKeen

  • Nov 10, 2021
  • 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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Maritime Launch Going Public

  • Nov 09, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Commercial spaceflight startup Maritime Launch Services is going public on the TSX Venture Exchange via a reverse takeover of merchant bank Jaguar Financial Corp.

Maritime Launch Services, or MLS, Chief Executive Steve Matier declined to name the

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CASTL Readies Training Partnership

  • Nov 09, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

The Prince Edward Island-based Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences, or CASTL, has announced a partnership with Vancouver’s adMare BioInnovations to offer technical training to prospective life sciences workers.

CASTL is a

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