Bright Lands SMU Student Group
Halifax-based Bright (formerly known as Cribcut) has signed up the Saint Mary's University Students' Association as a customer for its online well-being platform, the Bright Pass. Cribcut was best...
View ArticleInnovacorp Names 9 Sprint Winners
Innovacorp has named nine winners for its fall Sprint competition, each of whom will receive $25,000 in prize money and mentoring. The Nova Scotia government’s venture capital agency said Wednesday it...
View ArticleInnovation Week Coming to NL
The Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Technology and Innovation will hold its annual Innovation Week starting Monday, with a special focus on resiliency and adaptability. NATI and its partners...
View ArticleSonrai Closes US$20M VC Round
Cloud security company Sonrai Security has closed a US$20 million (C$26.4 million) venture capital round led by Menlo Ventures of Silicon Valley, the largest fully disclosed VC deal in Atlantic Canada...
View ArticleInnovacorp 2019-20 Funding Down 60%
Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency, invested a total $2.5 million in 19 companies in 2019-20, a drop in dollar terms of 60 percent from the previous fiscal...
View ArticleInnovacorp Accelerates Deals in Last 6 Months
Taking issue with the notion that Atlantic Canadian startups face a major funding problem, Andrew Ray says the companies in the Innovacorp portfolio have raised $71 million in the last six months...
View Article3D BioFibR Raises $550K Round
Halifax-based 3D BioFibR Inc., only formed in July, has closed a $550,000 funding round that will launch its mission to produce commercial quantities of nature’s “strongest, lightest and toughest”...
View ArticleNavigate Creates Software Studio
Sydney-based Navigate Startup House has teamed up with the Nova Scotia Department of Labour & Advanced Education to create work experience for a team of junior software developers in Cape Breton....
View ArticleSpark Awards $375K to 11 Teams
Eleven teams of entrepreneurs have been awarded a total of $375,000 in the Spark Nova Scotia program, which aims to develop startups in Nova Scotia outside of metro Halifax. The cash prizes – ranging...
View ArticleBounce Health Launches Next Phase
Bounce Health Innovation, the organization supporting medtech companies in Newfoundland and Labrador, is enhancing its operations with a new full-time director and three years of funding. The...
View ArticleHaight Books On Sale in NS
As many of our readers know, I have a side hustle writing crime novels. A few of you have asked how or where to order the new editions of my books THE HAIGHT or A HITMAN ON HAIGHT STREET, which come...
View ArticleVolta Launches New AI Program
Volta has teamed up with Scale AI, the Montreal-based artificial intelligence supercluster, to offer a new program called Volta AI, which supports companies bringing AI to supply chains. Volta, the...
View ArticleIgnite Wins Social Innovation Award
Ignite Labs has been recognized with a national Canie Award just days after the organization opened a new facility in Pictou County, N.S. Yarmouth, N.S-based Ignite, headed by Founder and CEO Doug...
View ArticleNatural Breast Prosthesis in Development
Simonne Cormier, Founder of a company that will make breast prostheses from natural fibres, is celebrating making it into Emergence, the national Bioscience Business Incubator run by PEI BIoAlliance....
View ArticleLooking Back at Q1 Labs, Radian6
I was astonished – and, to be frank, a little embarrassed – by how much I learned reading Gordon Pitts’ superb new book, Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers Are Changing the Game....
View ArticleCvent Aims to Hire 20-30 in Region
After increasing its Atlantic Canadian staff 30-fold in the past six years, Cvent is hiring again, hoping to add 20 to 30 people in the region. The maker of software for the event and hospitality...
View Article16 Startups To Present at AVF
Sixteen Atlantic Canadian companies will present at the Atlantic Venture Forum next week – a virtual event due to the pandemic. Calgary-based Critical Path Group, which stages the forum for startups...
View ArticleMESH/Diversity Closes $750K Round
MESH/Diversity, which helps clients use data to support diversity initiatives, has closed a $750,000 equity funding round led by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Concrete Ventures. The Saint...
View ArticleFundmetric Signs Texas Tech
Halifax-based Fundmetric, which helps non-profits raise more money from philanthropists, has signed up Texas Tech University, one of its largest clients to date. Fundmetric started seven years ago with...
View ArticleLockhart Wants ‘Baby Unicorns’
Kathryn Lockhart has a vision for Atlantic Canada: A farm of baby unicorns. Lockhart is almost through her second month as Chief Executive of the regional tech accelerator Propel, and she’s good with...
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