Webinars for Ocean Innovators
The pandemic has led the pan-regional Ocean Startup Project to cancel its in-person Engage Café events and allow virtual participation through a weekly #OceanofOpportunities webinar series. The...
View ArticleSalesRight Closes $600K Round
Halifax-based SalesRight, which helps software companies simplify their pricing models, has closed a $600,000 round of funding, building on the momentum of the $325,000 it raised last year. The latest...
View ArticleDeveloping Synthetic Lobster Bait
Two Nova Scotia entrepreneurs are partnering with a North Carolina life sciences startup to develop a more cost-effective and environmentally friendly system for baiting lobster traps. Vince Stuart is...
View ArticleCovid19 Sparks The Rounds’ Growth
As the Covid-19 crisis has deepened, a growing number of physicians and healthcare professionals have been signing up to The Rounds and its sister platform QID to exchange information on the growing...
View ArticleSide Door Refocuses on Online Shows
Halifax-based Side Door, an online platform that matches musical artists to small, intimate physical venues, is getting around the pandemic by offering online concerts and raising money for charity....
View ArticlePEI Startups Respond to Covid-19
We’ve been inundated in the past few days with press releases about what Atlantic Canadian startups are doing to provide products and services to help with the Covid-19 crisis. Consider Prince Edward...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening and What’s To Come in #Startupeast
I’ve spent a lot of time this week talking to support organizations and founders about the Covid-19 crisis – about what’s happening on the ground, how we are responding, and what should happen next....
View ArticleCyno To Launch Mental Health Aid
St. John’s-based Cyno, which has developed a healthcare platform offering secure online health services, has struck a partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association, Newfoundland and Labrador...
View ArticleUPDATE: Support Groups’ Response to Covid-19
Each week, we're posting information on how Atlantic Canadian startup support organizations are responding to the Covid-19 emergency. This is our third post, and many entries are repeats from the last...
View ArticlePM Outlines Programs for SMEs
The federal government is preparing to cover 75 percent of the wages of qualifying small and medium-sized businesses for three months, as well as extending these companies interest-free loans. Prime...
View ArticleMilk Moovement in 2 US Accelerators
St. John’s-based Milk Moovement has been accepted into the Food-X program in New York City, having also joined the Thrive accelerator in Silicon Valley, meaning it is simultaneously going through two...
View ArticleGray Wolf Launches Covid-19 App
Fredericton-based Gray Wolf Analytics has responded to Covid-19 by launching SafeContact, an app that helps with tracking and tracing the movements of individuals through the crisis. Gray Wolf started...
View ArticleRodgers No Longer CEO of Volta
Halifax-based Volta and its CEO Jesse Rodgers have parted ways, four years after he joined the largest innovation hub in Atlantic Canada. Jevon MacDonald, who chairs the Volta Board, sent out a memo to...
View ArticleCovid-19 Tool for Doctors
A digital COVID-19 risk stratification and screening survey has been announced by Charlottetown-founded GetOn Health, maker of a telehealth platform for doctors. Called SecurePass, the new feature is...
View ArticleData Suggests Startups Won’t Miss Out in Support Program
The debate has begun about whether too many Atlantic Canadian startups will be ineligible for the federal government’s wage-support program, and whether that could jeopardize the startup community. A...
View ArticleNGen Grants Sona Nano $4.1M
Halifax-based Sona Nanotech has secured a $4.1 million grant from NGen, Canada's advanced manufacturing supercluster, to commercialize its Covid-19 rapid-response antigen test. With a mission of...
View ArticleWhite: Measures Needed To Unlock VC Market
In the discussion about support for startups, Jeff White is worried about positioning the companies that survive the current crisis so they can resume their previous growth. The CEO of the New...
View ArticleA 2nd Take on Wage Support for Startups
I did something today I haven’t done before: I removed an opinion piece from Entrevestor because I became aware my analysis was wrong. On Tuesday night, I posted a column arguing the federal wage...
View ArticleDo You Need Help with PR Strategy?
Need help telling your story? I know of a few people who can help. I’m reaching out mainly to companies who are doing well in the current environment, or ones who have funding and are in a holding...
View ArticleMarketing in the ‘New Normal’
Marketing specialist Katelyn Bourgoin and her CustomerCamp team are launching a new online community called Marketing Mastermind to help marketers and entrepreneurs navigate the new business...
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