Milk Moovement Raises $26M
Halifax’s Milk Moovement, which makes supply chain management software for the dairy industry, has raised a US$20 million or C$26 million round of Series A funding as it looks to expand its product...
View Article6 Firms Pitch at Summer Institute
The University of New Brunswick held a demo day Wednesday for its Summer Institute accelerator, its first in-person pitch event since the pandemic, with six companies presenting. Most startup...
View ArticleChinova Raises $6M
Chinova Bioworks, a Fredericton-based company that uses mushrooms to make food preservatives and other ingredients, has raised a $6 million Series A funding round. The company plans to use the money to...
View ArticleHollo, PragmaClin Win Canadian GSEA
Two East Coast medtech entrepreneurs claimed the top prizes in the Canadian edition of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards, or GSEA, and will now proceed to the international finals. David Hodgson,...
View ArticleInnovacorp Seeks Applicants for 2 Programs
Innovacorp has announced that applications are open for its five sector-specific Innovacorp Accelerate streams as well as the GreenShoots program, which is aimed at early-stage agritech or bioeconomy...
View ArticleOunje Bazaar Wins MTME: NEXT
A trio of student teams from the University of New Brunswick’s Master of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship or MTME, program pitched their startup ideas Friday. The pitches were part of MTME:...
View ArticleIWK Appoints MacMaster VP of Innovation
Halifax’s IWK Health Centre, Atlantic Canada's largest children's hospital, has appointed a new vice-president of research and innovation, Dr. Frank MacMaster. In his new role, MacMaster will oversea...
View ArticleThe Economist’s Bluetech Conference Draws Eyes to Halifax
Britain's leading global affairs magazine, The Economist, will host a bluetech conference in Halifax this October, showcasing the region's fast-growing oceans sector on the international stage. For...
View ArticleAVF Coming Sept. 13 and 14
The Atlantic Venture Forum, or AVF will be held at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel Sept. 13 and 14, marking the first time the annual summit has taken place in person since the beginning of the...
View ArticleStartup Atlantic: Inside the New Branding Push
Fifty Atlantic Canadian startup community members travelled to the Startupfest Montreal conference last week in a bid to entice outside investors, entrepreneurs and talent to consider doing business...
View ArticleLatest Energia Cohort Targets Jordan, Africa
Fredericton-based startup accelerator Energia Ventures held a demo day for its latest cohort Wednesday, highlighting its status as a draw for international entrepreneurs, with four of the five...
View ArticleIntrohive Lays Off Staff, Braces for Recession
Just a year after raising the largest equity funding round in New Brunswick history, Fredericton- and Miami-based Introhive is laying off about 16 percent of its workforce as the company braces for...
View ArticleCASTL Names Etter Director of Technical Training
The Prince Edward Island-based Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences, or CASTL has hired pharma industry veteran Paul-Xavier Etter as its director of technical training. Etter’s...
View ArticleNACO Reports Strong 2021 in Atlantic Canada
Early-stage investors invested $29.4 million in Atlantic Canadian startups last year, according to a forthcoming report by the National Angel Capital Organization, or NACO, accounting for about 5...
View ArticleMoffitt Bows Out at BioNova
BioNova Executive Director Scott Moffitt has resigned from the Nova Scotia life sciences industry group, with Director of Operations Kerri Manette stepping in as interim director. Moffitt started at...
View ArticleNS to Amalgamate Innovacorp, NSBI
Crown corporations Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Innovacorp are being amalgamated into a single agency called Invest Nova Scotia, as Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservative government looks to...
View ArticleProcedureFlow Raises $12M
Saint John-based ProcedureFlow has raised $11.8 million in a funding round that includes its existing investors and some employees, as well as newcomers Sandpiper Ventures of Halifax and the Canadian...
View ArticleFACE Offers Loans to Black-Run SMEs
The Federation of African Canadian Economics, or FACE, recently celebrated the first anniversary of its founding, capping off a year in which it provided financial backing to businesses, including some...
View ArticleNewAE Sold to Britain’s lowRISC
Halifax cybersecurity company NewAE Technology, which manufactures products to study "hardware hacking", has been acquired by Britain's lowRISC C.I.C., with the aim of accelerating growth. LowRISC,...
View ArticleRecimply Wins Pitch & Pick
Recimply, which is developing “smart receipt” software, has won the $2,000 first prize at St. John’s-based startup hub Genesis’s Pitch & Pick competition — the culmination of its eight-week...
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