Dal Names Second R2L Cohort
Dalhousie University has announced the second cohort of its Ready2Launch summer accelerator, which comprises 12 teams from universities across Atlantic Canada. Known as R2L, the three-month program is...
View ArticleOcean Supercluster’s Ecosystem Index
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has launched a joint project with MIT Technology Review Insights, the university publication’s customer research and content arm, to create an index ranking the ocean-tech...
View ArticleCooper Joins Volta as CIO
When Matt Cooper first discovered startup incubator Volta in the middle of the last decade, it was not as the leader of a prospective resident company, but as a service provider. Cooper was a...
View ArticleTwo Companies Win $25k from NBIF
The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s Breakthru-Newcomer startup competition has announced two winners of $25,000 each. The two companies, HomeSchoolToGo and Brain Tumor Segmentation, beat out 34...
View ArticleSupercluster Projects Focus on AR, VR
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Thursday announced four new research projects worth $3.5 million, with a special focus on the use of mixed-reality technologies like augmented reality, or AR, and virtual...
View ArticleVenn, UdeM Focus on Students
Venn Innovation and Université de Moncton (Campus Shippagan or UMCS) are working together to boost entrepreneurship within the province's student community. Their new partnership will see increased...
View ArticleBluenotes: BlueSwell, PORT Launched
Boston-based oceans accelerator SeaAhead and the New England Aquarium have announced the launch of the BlueSwell Incubator Program, New England’s first early-stage bluetech incubator. BlueSwell is...
View ArticleSona Nano Ends COVID Trials
Sona Nanotech shares fell 68 percent on Friday after the Halifax life sciences company announced it had ended the clinical trials of its saliva-based rapid test for COVID-19 due to disappointing...
View ArticleUpfront Inks Whole Foods Deal
Upfront Cosmetics, the Nackawic, NB-based maker of eco-friendly baby shampoo, now sells its soap in close to 275 stores and has inked a 14-store deal with Amazon.com-owned health food giant Whole...
View ArticleFood for Thought Eyes $1M Raise
Growing out of the crisis of the pandemic, Halifax-based Food for Thought Software Solutions, a company that provides stigma-free school meals to kids in need, is preparing to raise funds to boost...
View ArticleMillennia Tea Signs with Whole Foods
Millennia Tea, the Saint John maker of frozen tea products, has inked a national distribution deal with U.S. health food giant Whole Foods. The company sells edible, frozen tea in three forms:...
View ArticleGSTS Launches OCIANA, Preps for New Round
After two years of development, Dartmouth-based Global Spatial Technology Systems, or GSTS, is commercially launching its cloud software for analyzing and predicting the movements of ships. The...
View ArticleEntrevestor Data Report to Launch June 25
We’re delighted to announce that we’ll launch our 2020 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report on June 25 at 12:00 noon AST with a virtual lunch-and-learn session hosted by Volta, via Zoom. Entrevestor’s...
View ArticleIntrohive Announces Largest Funding in NB History
Introhive, the Fredericton- and Miami-based maker of AI sales software, announced Wednesday it has closed a mammoth US$100 million ($122 million) Series C funding round -- the largest equity investment...
View ArticleIntrohive Round Pushes NB to record
Six months into 2021, New Brunswick startups have already blown past their fundraising totals from previous years, with at least $136 million of capital raised. Most of that money comes from...
View ArticleSurvey Shows Support for Indigenous Entrepreneurs
A new national Leger survey sheds light on how Canadians, including Atlantic residents, view the need for healthy Indigenous businesses. Coinciding with National Indigenous History Month, the survey...
View ArticleOutcast, B4 Reveal Staff Moves
Several high-profile companies and organizations in the Halifax area, including Outcast Foods and b4checkin, have announced changes in senior management in the past few days. Dartmouth-based Outcast...
View ArticleHarbr Testing New Fintech Product
Harbr, the Halifax-based maker of project management software for the construction industry, is testing a fintech service that CEO Dave Kim says will help address systemic problems with late payments...
View ArticleUsing the Seas to Capture CO2
When discussing what big, ocean-based carbon capture or storage could look like in 10 years, Matthew Eisaman likes to point out that atmospheric carbon capture will prove difficult unless it’s...
View ArticleAppili COVID Trial Expands to Mexico, Brazil
Halifax-based Appili Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing drugs for infectious diseases, has added clinical research sites in Mexico and Brazil to its Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating...
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