AffinityImmuno Eyes Licensing Partner
Charlottetown-based AffinityImmuno is looking for a larger partner to licence out its product that tests whether a person has antibodies that can ward off COVID-19. The four-year-old company...
View ArticleNova Box Expands with Acquisition
Nova Box, which sells gift boxes stuffed with goods made in Nova Scotia, is expanding across Atlantic Canada with the acquisition of The East Coast Box Company. Allyson England, who started...
View ArticleNS Ecosystem Evolved in 2019
The important activity in the Nova Scotia startup community in 2019 was in the development of the ecosystem rather than the performance of companies. Certainly, many companies had highlights, which...
View ArticleThe White Cross, by H.P. MacKeen
My grandfather, artillery officer H.P. MacKeen, shown on the left, wrote this poem in Ypres in September 1917, two months before the Battle of Passchendaele. The White Cross It isn’t a medal or...
View ArticleLED Wins Export Canada Award
Halifax-based LED Roadway Lighting Ltd., which manufactures smart and low-energy street lighting, has been named a cleantech Export Star by Export Development Canada, or EDC. Each year, EDC highlights...
View ArticleBerhane Wins GSE Award
Robel Berhane, Co-founder and CFO of Halifax-based Clean Catch Baits, has been named Global Student Entrepreneur for Atlantic Canada in the recent Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. Clean Catch is...
View ArticleAiresun Signs $150M Contract
Airesun Global, a Cape Breton company that makes industrial oils, cleaners and lubricants out of seed oil, has signed two contracts worth a total of almost $160 million. The Sydney-area company held a...
View ArticleMCE a Finalist at GCEC Awards
For the second year in a row, the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, has been named a finalist in the Outstanding Emerging Centre category of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship...
View ArticleSaint John’s New Startup Facility
The Block One Incubator has opened in Saint John, providing the Port City with a facility offering programs and working space for growing startups. Five companies are now working at the...
View ArticleSupercluster Funds Three Projects
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Friday announced funding for three projects with a total value of $6.6 million led by innovation-driven groups based in St. John's. The Atlantic Canadian group dedicated...
View ArticleMysa Launching Third Product
St. John’s-based Mysa has pre-launched a new control for air conditioners, the third product in its suite of smart home temperature controls, and is reporting great demand in the pre-orders. The...
View ArticlePegasus Biotech Joins Emergence
Charlottetown-based contract research organization Pegasus Biotech is the latest bioscience company to join Emergence, the P.E.I.-based national bioscience business incubator. Founded last year,...
View ArticleMitacs, NBIF Launch Intern Program
Mitacs and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, or NBIF, have announced a joint initiative that will pay $860,000 toward research internships at New Brunswick companies. The two organizations...
View ArticleOliver POS Teams up with Nexcess
St. John’s-based Oliver POS has partnered with Nexcess, a major web-hosting company specializing in ecommerce, to help distribute its technology to more ecommerce merchants. Oliver has developed a...
View ArticleSimplyCast Aims for 100 Interns
SimplyCast, the Dartmouth-based marketing automation company, is aiming to hire 100 interns in 2021 to help post-secondary students thrive during the pandemic. The company said in a statement on...
View Article10 Companies Join Scale-Up Hub
Nova Scotia Business Inc. on Tuesday named 10 Atlantic Canadian companies to the Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge, which helps scaling companies find clients in the New England market. For the past two years,...
View ArticleIntrohive in Deloitte Fast 50 Again
Introhive, which makes B2B sales intelligence software, has been named to the 2020 Deloitte Fast 50 Technology Awards for the second time in as many years. The company, which is based in Fredericton...
View ArticleRural Innovators Advanced in 2019
One of the bright spots of the Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2019 was the strong showing by rural innovators, especially in Nova Scotia. A stalwart of the startup community once told...
View ArticleFour Supercluster Projects Unveiled
Further ramping up its activity, Canada’s Ocean Supercluster on Thursday announced it is backing four more projects that aim to grow Canada’s marine economy, benefit the environment and encourage...
View ArticleSalesRight Acquired By FastSpring
Halifax-based SalesRight, which helps B2B Software-as-a-Service companies simplify their pricing, has been acquired by Santa Barbara, Calif.-based FastSpring for an undisclosed price. FastSpring is a...
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