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SUMS Event Features Ultrasonic Scalpel, AI Tutoring

  • Feb 23, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

A quartet of startups delivered pitches of about half an hour each to an audience of investors and ecosystem members Thursday night in Halifax at an investment club event hosted by SUMS Capital, a platform for early-stage companies to communicate

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UNB Seeks Energia Applicants

  • Feb 23, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The University of New Brunswick’s Energia Ventures accelerator for energy, cleantech, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence companies is looking for applicants for its spring cohort.

The accelerator, which is based in Fredericton at UNB’s J.

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SimplyCast Expands Canadian Server Capacity

  • Feb 22, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax’s SimplyCast, which sells a platform for companies to consolidate and automate their marketing efforts and communications, is expanding its Canadian server group in response to growing demand.

Chief executive Saeed El-Darahali said in an

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Cognizant to Double Halifax Staff

  • Feb 22, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Two years after it announced it would open a branch office in Halifax, international technology consultancy and services company Cognizant plans to double its presence in the city, adding another 1,000 jobs.

When Cognizant originally announced it

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Eight Present at Democamp

  • Feb 21, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Eight startups presented Thursday at Halifax innovation hub Volta’s annual Democamp event, showcasing their technology to an audience of investors and ecosystem members.

Held at Volta’s new offices overlooking Argyle Street, one of the event’s core

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ideaHUB Seeks Accelerator Applicants

  • Feb 21, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Dalhousie University’s Emera ideaHUB has opened applications for this year’s ideaBUILD accelerator — a 10-month program meant to help deeptech startups develop and manufacture their products.

The program lasts 10 months and offers participating

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Sparrow Launches Stethophone

  • Feb 19, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Seven months after it won United States Food and Drug Administration approval, St. John’s-based Sparrow Bioacoustics has launched its stethoscope app for smartphones in the United States.

The app, called Stethophone, uses a phone’s internal

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Invest NS Offers Virtual Market Development

  • Feb 19, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Invest Nova Scotia, the provincial business development agency, is seeking applicants to its Market Entry Development Program, which helps businesses establish a virtual presence in Europe or Asia in preparation to begin exporting.

The program,

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NBIF Announces Climate Impact Grant Recipients

  • Feb 16, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced seven “commercialization-ready” academic research projects receiving a combined $540,000 from this year’s Climate Impact Grants.

NBIF and economic development agency Opportunities New Brunswick

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Volta Pitch Competition for Female Founders March 26

  • Feb 16, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax startup hub Volta will host a Women Taking over the World with Tech, or WTWT, pitch competition next Tuesday, March 26 at 4:00 p.m.

The competition, to be held virtually, will invite female founders to deliver three-minute pitches and

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Scient Launches Virtual Mining Core Database

  • Feb 14, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Mining technology startup Scient has launched a virtual library of rock cores from throughout Nova Scotia, a year after it began digitizing the provincial repository, offering geologists and mining companies a way to access key data without

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Ashored Considers Leasing Model

  • Feb 13, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

Bedford, N.S.-based Ashored Innovations has a pair of key choices to make this month or the next, chief business development officer Stephen Jones said in an interview Tuesday, as the maker of rope-on-command fishing gear looks to capitalize on

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