Entrevestor Live offers Bang for Buck
When we started planning Entrevestor Live, we set out to give founders and investors the biggest possible bang for their buck. Entrevestor Live, an online conference that showcases the East Coast...
View ArticleProposify Raises $13M
Halifax sales software maker Proposify has raised $13 million from provincial venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp and the Canadian Business Growth Fund -- an investment fund backed by major...
View ArticleCreate ‘Atlantic Bubble’ for Investment: Business Luminaries
A group of Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs and business development organizations have launched a campaign for the four Atlantic provinces to create an investment tax credit bubble that would permit...
View ArticleEvolution Accelerator Seeks Applicants
Newfoundland and Labrador’s Genesis startup hub has put out a call for applications for the fall cohort of its eight-week Evolution startup accelerator, with a September 22 deadline. Genesis bills...
View ArticleBounce Grows To Help 40 Startups
A year into its second iteration, Newfoundland and Labrador medtech support organization Bounce Health Innovation is working with 40 young companies, many in new programs introduced by the group....
View ArticleWe’ve Reached a New Plateau in Funding
I presented our most recent startup data to a group of policymakers on Thursday, and the conclusion of the presentation demonstrated perfectly the theme of Entrevestor Live. Entrevestor Live is a...
View ArticleCacheFlo Bags Chamber of Commerce Deal
Halifax fintech startup CacheFlo has inked a distribution agreement with the Halifax Chamber of Commerce in a move CEO Stephanie Holmes-Winton expects to pave the way for similar deals with other...
View ArticleSparrow Raises $3.25M
After three years of stealthy research and development, Halifax’s Sparrow Biologic has raised $3.25 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by family offices Killick Capital and Klister Credit...
View ArticleInnovacorp Books $101M on Meta Exit
Innovacorp has cashed in on its investment in Metamaterials Inc., banking a gain of $101 million and making a return of almost 35 times. Nova Scotia’s provincial venture capital Crown corporation...
View ArticleTrip Ninja Closes
Executives at Halifax travel scheduling startup Trip Ninja are shuttering the company, citing COVID-19’s protracted effects on the travel industry, as first reported by Huddle. Founded in 2015 by CEO...
View ArticleInnovacorp Books $101M on Meta Exit
Innovacorp has cashed in on its investment in Metamaterials Inc., banking a gain of $101 million and making a return of almost 35 times. Nova Scotia’s provincial venture capital Crown corporation...
View ArticleCollaborating to create great companies
Sponsored Content Two years ago at the University of New Brunswick, a group of faculty, students and alumni began to toss around an idea: could artificial intelligence (AI) help regulators trace the...
View ArticleUnion.Dev Bags ACOA, IRAP Funding
Halifax’s Union.Dev is deploying its pension-management software at a 30,000-person union in Ontario and has raised $310,000 of non-dilutive funding from NRC IRAP and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities...
View ArticleAppili to Spend US$1M on Covid Drug Trials
Halifax drugmaker Appili Therapeutics has raised US$1 million from FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical Co. to pay for ongoing clinical trials of the Japanese pharma giant’s favipiravir antiviral medication, which...
View Article3D BioFibR Raises $700K
Halifax advanced materials startup 3D BioFibR has raised $700,000 in what it describes as an “oversubscribed follow-on round,” marking the company’s second six-figure raise since its founding last...
View ArticleLab2Market Oceans Launches Year 2
Ocean Startup Project has announced 22 participating teams have been accepted into the second year of the Lab2Market Oceans program, which aims to produce commercial applications for academic research....
View ArticleCDL Partners With Virginia’s Ocean Visions
Startup accelerator Creative Destruction Lab’s oceans stream has joined Virginia-based industry group Ocean Visions to offer training to startups gunning for the Carbon Removal XPRIZE -- a cleantech...
View ArticleSperri Sales Surge After Award
Halifax-based Novagevity is celebrating a surge in demand for Sperri, its organic, plant-based meal replacement drink, and is raising funds to finance staffing, R&D and distribution. The company...
View ArticleWhat To Do With Innovacorp’s $101M?
Talks are now under way between Innovacorp and the Nova Scotia government about what should be done with the $104 million that Innovacorp received from its investment in Metamaterials Inc. Last week,...
View ArticleMOC Readies Bioprinting Tech
When Ali Mousavi and Arash Helmi joined the Startup Visa program sponsored by Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp, it was not from their home country of Iran, but thanks to a South...
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