Vertiball Snags $420K on Dragons’ Den
Vertiball, the Fredericton-based manufacturing concern, appeared on Dragons’ Den on CBC last week and walked away with a $420,000 investment by marketing whiz Arlene Dickinson. Once the deal closes,...
View ArticleMotryx Partners with Germany’s Aerocom
Halifax-based Motryx, whose technology helps ensure the safe transport of blood samples, has struck a partnership with Germany’s Aerocom, a global leader in installing pneumatic tube systems in...
View ArticleScale Up Atlantic Canada Returns
The TME program at the University of New Brunswick is looking for scaling companies to participate in the next cohort of Scale Up Atlantic Canada. Two years ago, the Fredericton university teamed up...
View ArticleSnapAP Announces Funding Close
Moncton-based SnapAP, which makes payment software, has closed a “significant portion” of a funding round that it hopes will reach US$2 million (C$2.6 million). The money has come largely from angels...
View ArticleEntrevestor’s Top 10 Stories of 2020
Thursday night, Propel held its virtual Christmas party, at which the regional accelerator posted a video by me ranking the top 10 stories we've covered in 2020. Limiting the number of stories to 10...
View ArticleAfter Sandpiper, Graham Joins Imaginal
Eight months after being named Investment Principal of Sandpiper Ventures, Danielle Graham has taken two new jobs, becoming a partner of both the Halifax-based business advisory group Imaginal Ventures...
View ArticleJob of the Week: Dash Hudson
Our Job of the Week column this week features an opening for a Customer Success Associate at Dash Hudson in Halifax. Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its...
View ArticleClean Leadership Applicants Sought
Dartmouth-based Clean Foundation is seeking host and student applicants for its Clean Leadership Summer Internship Program, a sustainability-focused youth employment program in Nova Scotia. The group...
View ArticleOcean Project Targets Digital Twins
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a new $18 million project that aims to create “digital twins” for use in ocean-related industries. The organization charged with developing new technology and...
View ArticleSeaChange Eyes Production by June
SeaChange Biochemistry, which extracts specialty chemicals from seaweed, is planning to begin production at its new facility in Clark’s Harbour, NS, by June. Having won or placed prominently in a range...
View ArticleCollaborating To Build a Smart City
Saint John Energy, the municipal utility that sells electricity to residents of greater Saint John, is partnering with several innovation-driven companies in the region with the goal of improving...
View ArticleInteractive Novel Wins School Covid Care Contest
Schools have a new tool to help them handle the pandemic now that Eyeread has named interactive novel Ready R Naught the winner of a contest to create School Covid Care Packages. In a collaboration...
View ArticleHappy Holidays to our Readers
We're signing off on 2020 with a wish for happy holidays for all our readers. We're really looking forward to 2021, and not just because it has to be better than 2020. We're looking at some...
View ArticleFour NL Startups Receive $800K
The governments of Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada last week announced almost $800,000 in financial support for four startups based in St. John’s. The provincial Department of Industry, Energy and...
View ArticleEcosystem Wish List for 2021
Ideally, my wish list for the Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem for 2021 would begin with an East Coast angel network. But I’m growing more pessimistic about an angel network coming to fruition in...
View ArticleSona’s COVID Test Approved in Europe
Halifax-based Sona Nanotech, which makes rapid diagnostic tests, has been granted regulatory approval to sell its rapid test for COVID-19 in the European Union. The company said in a statement New...
View ArticleAfrican Nova Scotian Stream for Green Economy
Green economy companies and organizations are invited to apply for the Employers for the Clean Leadership Summer Internship Program, which this year sees an African Nova Scotian internship stream join...
View ArticleVCIC Seeking Startups to Pitch
The Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University is looking for three startups to pitch at the Venture Capital Investment Competition taking place in Halifax on March 5. The VCIC is an...
View ArticleCartmill Sells C-Therm to Harris
Adam Harris, who has served as Managing Director of Fredericton-based C-Therm Technologies since its inception in 2007, has bought the company from founder Charles Cartmill. The company released a...
View ArticleHow Strong Branding Aided a COVID Pivot
What’s truly fascinating about the story of how Educated Beards coped with the COVID-19 pandemic is it shows the value of a superior branding program. The maker of organic beard-grooming products is...
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