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Centre for Women in Business Readies Accelerator

Halifax’s Centre for Women in Business will launch a virtual accelerator for women tech entrepreneurs beginning Feb. 25. Its aim is to introduce founders of companies with revenues to the fundamentals...

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Volta LEAP Deadline is Dec. 23

Halifax startup hub Volta has opened applications for its free LEAP program, which aims to prepare entrepreneurs to submit an application to a startup accelerator, such as Creative Destruction Lab or...

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Region Losing Ground in VC

Here are two ways to look at the funding environment in Atlantic Canada in 2021: it will likely be the second-best year ever, or it will likely be the worst year since 2014. If you dive into data...

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Ajibola Joins Venn Board

New Brunswick startup hub Venn Innovation has added a new board member: Welkom-U Chief Executive Oluwatosin "Tosin" Ajibola, whose company finished a closed test of its software last month. Ajibola, a...

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Smooth Meal Prep Eyes Franchising

Halifax food delivery startup Smooth Meal Prep has hired organizational design firm Simplycity Designs to help with a franchising strategy and is eyeing expansion into a second community. CEO Nevell...

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Halifax Port Authority Opens PIER

The Port of Halifax's new living lab, designed to be a global centre for collaboration on maritime innovation, especially as it pertains to the port industry, is open for business. Located in the old...

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Sentry Lands $1.9M from SDTC

Charlottetown-based Sentry, whose technology gives utilities real-time analyses of their wastewater, has received a $1.9 million grant from Sustainable Development Technologies Canada, or SDTC. Sentry,...

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Volta Launches Virtual Incubator

Halifax startup hub Volta is adding a virtual version of its Residency incubator program for companies based outside the city at a $100 per month price point, instead of the floor space-based invoicing...

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BioTalent Warns Labour Outlook Grim

A report by industry group BioTalent Canada warns that the Atlantic Provinces face a potentially crippling labour shortage in the bioeconomy, deepening a staffing crunch that BioNova Executive Director...

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Automating Archaeology

Sponsored Content When archaeologist Cora Woolsey conceived of the idea for a software platform that would help her peers gather and log data about their work, she drew inspiration not from her own...

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DuaScript Wins Pitch & Pick

DuaScript, which makes software for compounding pharmacies, has won St. John’s-based Genesis’s Pitch & Pick competition, amid a field of heavily software-focused competitors. The company, founded...

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Gaia To Produce Natural Gas for Rockets

A Saint John entrepreneur plans to tap Atlantic Canada’s high winds for carbon capture projects that she hopes will help power the space industry, with a working prototype slated for completion next...

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Volta To Host Media Relations Seminar

The Halifax-based startup hub Volta will host a seminar on media relations for startups next month, led by Entrevestor principal Peter Moreira. The free seminar will be a hybrid in-person and online...

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Trophi.ai Races Through Seed Round

St. John’s-based Trophi.ai, which is developing artificial intelligence software for e-sports coaching and eventually real-world sports, has raised a round of seed funding led by Halifax’s Concrete...

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Sankara Wins BMO Celebrating Women Grant

Lily Lynch, co-founder of Saint John-based online multicultural marketplace Sankara, is one of 18 women recognized by the BMO Celebrating Women Grant. Nationally, nearly a thousand women business...

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IDG Communications Buys LeadSift

Halifax-based LeadSift, whose software helps tech companies identify sales leads, has been acquired by Boston-based media company IDG Communications for an undisclosed price. The two companies issued a...

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Bluetech Founders: Please Fill Out Our Survey

At Entrevestor, we're in the process of preparing our annual data reports for 2021, including our first pan-Canadian Oceantech Data Report, which will be made available to the general public early in...

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Alongside Buys CareerBeacon

Alongside, the Moncton-based maker of human resources software, has acquired CareerBeacon for an undisclosed price, allowing the development team to take control of the job board and plot its...

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Supercluster Announces Two Projects for $3.6M

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a pair of new projects worth a combined $3.6 million -- one to remotely monitor work being conducted at offshore sites and one to develop risk assessment and...

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Four Eyes Prepares for Series A

In the wake of doubling both its team and its client count over the last 18 months, Saint John regulatory software startup Four Eyes Financial is hiring another five people and preparing for a Series A...

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