CandidateHub Automates Recruiting
With COVID-19 making the hiring process more complex than ever, a Riverview, N.B. company has developed a solution to help automate the process of finding and attracting job seekers. Brad DiPaolo is...
View ArticleFrenter Wins Volta Contest
A fledgling company that allows individuals to rent and hire personal items like sports equipment has won a pitching contest run by innovation hub Volta. Halifax-based frenter soft launched on April...
View ArticlePolyamyna Preps for Clinical Trials
St. John’s-based disinfectant maker Polyamyna Nanotech has inked a deal with Eastern Health to run clinical trials of its product once it receives Health Canada approval. Polyamyna, which graduated...
View ArticleInnovacorp Seeks ‘Accelerate’ Applicants
Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp is launching a revamped version of its Accelerate program, which will replace both the old, longer program of the same name and the shorter...
View ArticleJobs: Director of Quality at Protocase
Our Job of the Week column today features an opening for a Director of Quality at Protocase in Sydney. Established in 2001, the company focuses on combining advances in software with advanced...
View ArticleCAN Health Moves into Region
A network of public health organizations created to support Canadian medtech businesses is expanding into the Atlantic provinces, with an eye towards giving local startups an edge on their American...
View ArticleSix Named to Energia Cohort
Fredericton-based Energia Ventures, the accelerator for energy, cleantech, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence companies, has named six startups to its Spring 2021 cohort. The accelerator, which...
View ArticlePicomole Aiming for 2024 Launch
With a major funding round in its sights this year, Moncton-based medtech company Picomole is aiming to have a product on the market in 2024 that can detect lung cancer from a single breath sample. The...
View ArticleArcturus Raises US$5M Seed Round
A Dartmouth-based maker of three-dimensional video software, led by an executive team stacked with former Netflix, Google and Pixar execs, has raised a US$5 million (C$6 million) seed round and plans...
View ArticleReport Examines Inclusion in NS
A new report called the Nova Scotia Inclusive Innovation Monitor highlights inequities in the Nova Scotia innovation ecosystem. The report, prepared by Ryerson University’s Brookfield Institute for...
View Article7 Teams Join Summer Institute
The University of New Brunswick’s Summer Institute has launched its eighth cohort with seven companies participating in the virtual program. Whereas most accelerators teach lean methodology to...
View ArticleVolta Cohort Names 5 Winners
Social ventures were the big winners at the Volta Cohort pitching event on Wednesday, as five companies addressing problems like food insecurity and plastic waste were awarded a total of $125,000 in...
View ArticleIRAP Funds 3 Bio Projects in NS
Three Nova Scotia life sciences companies have received a total of $1.2 million in R&D funding as part of a joint program between National Research Council’s IRAP and its British counterpart. IRAP...
View ArticleJobs: Adaptiiv Seeks Engineers
A pair of openings at Halifax-based medtech company Adaptiiv – for a Senior Software Engineer and a DevOps Engineer – headline our Jobs of the Week column today. Adaptiiv, which raised $3.4 million in...
View ArticleDemo Days To Feature 37 NS Startups
Two Nova Scotian groups supporting startups will hold virtual demo days in the next week, showcasing a total of 37 companies based in the province. The Emera IDEAhub, Dalhousie University’s hardware...
View ArticleHalifax Innovation Outpost Backs Harbr, Tranqility
The Halifax Innovation Outpost, a joint project between the city and the Halifax Partnership think-tank, has announced that it will back construction fintech startup Harbr and mental health app...
View ArticleRegion Raised $35M in VC in Q1
Atlantic Canadian companies secured a better-than-average $35 million in venture capital funding in the first quarter of 2021, and continued to attract private equity financing, said the Canadian...
View ArticleLinking CarbonCure to Lindbergh
The Halifax Innovation District has posted a new feature on CarbonCure Technologies, which compares the Halifax cleantech company’s recent Carbon XPRIZE win with Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the...
View ArticleEight Join Scale-Up Hub: Atlanta
Eight companies have been named to Scale-Up Hub: Atlanta, a new program that helps high-growth Atlantic Canadian companies increase their sales in the U.S. Southeast. In the Scale-Up Hub program, which...
View ArticleRally Inks Deal with Cox & Palmer
Having already signed on about 40 American law firms as clients, legal software maker Rally has inked a deal with Halifax firm Cox & Palmer to help provide legal services to the Atlantic Canadian...
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