Clever Fruit Adds Directors
Having raised more than $400,000 in equity funding, Halifax’s Clever Fruit Products has announced new directors to its board who it says will add top-flight expertise and connections. The company,...
View ArticleArolytics Lands $710K in Funding
Halifax- and Calgary-based Arolytics, whose software helps oil and gas companies track their methane emissions, has raised $710,000 in equity financing, which the company says will help it to scale...
View ArticleTalkatoo in Google Accelerator
Halifax-based Talkatoo is one of four Canadian startups accepted into the first cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: Voice AI. Google announced this week that 12 North American companies...
View ArticleSupercluster Unveils Aquaculture Project
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a $27 million project that will help improve the aquaculture industry through data analytics and increased connectivity. The group that supports the country’s...
View ArticleTorchlight Lends Meta US$10M
Metamaterial Inc. is borrowing US$10 million from Plano, Texas-based oil and gas producer Torchlight Energy Resources, the company it hopes to merge with in the coming months. Meta, as the Dartmouth...
View ArticleMcCain Invests $30M in GoodLeaf
Vertical farm operator GoodLeaf Farms has received a $30 million investment from McCain Foods, which will allow it to build two more Canadian farms this year. The company was launched several years ago...
View ArticleJobs: MCE, En Point, MindSea
Our Jobs of the Week column today features postings at En Point and MindSea in Halifax, and the Memorial University Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, in St. John’s. The mission of the MCE is to...
View ArticleNB Crypto Mining Centre Sold
A surprising corporate deal took place last week which will result in a new data centre in Grand Falls, NB, being part of an environmentally sustainable cryptocurrency operation. Vancouver-based HIVE...
View ArticleGlobe Lauds 3 East Coast Founders
By being named to the Globe and Mail’s inaugural list of 50 Canadian Changemakers, Charles Milton hopes he can shine a spotlight on the dearth of domestic Black entrepreneurs in the Nova Scotian...
View ArticleNB Bioeconomy Event Now Regional Partnership
For eight years, BioNB and partners have held the bioeconomy conference Atlantic BIOCON. For this year's event, the partnership is expanding to include the Nova Scotia Innovation Hub, CCNB-INNOV and...
View ArticleSnorble Set for Indiegogo Campaign
Snorble, an automated bedtime companion for children, has been chosen for a high-impact campaign on Indiegogo, says its Halifax-based designer Mike Rizkalla. Snorble is a soft toy, about the size of a...
View ArticleMCE’s Woodward Cup Set for March 25
The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship on March 25 will host the 2021 Mel Woodward Cup, which will hand out $40,000 in prize money to companies founded by Memorial University students. The virtual...
View ArticleSomaDetect Unveils $6M Raise
Agtech company SomaDetect has closed a $6 million venture capital round led by Ag Tech Canada, and intends to use the funds to accelerate adoption of its sensor technology that monitors the health of...
View ArticleDickinson in Outcast’s $10M Round
Dartmouth-based Outcast Foods, which makes powdered food products from rejected produce, has closed a $10 million funding round, half of which came from the fund led by Arlene Dickinson of Dragons’ Den...
View ArticleGranville’s Swab Approved
Health Canada has approved the Granville Swab, a new product created by St. John’s-based Granville Biomedical. During the pandemic, company Co-Founder and registered nurse Crystal Northcott has been...
View ArticleMySafe Lands $3.5M Grant
Health Canada has awarded a $3.49 million grant to the MySafe Society to help fund the roll-out of five opioid dispensers manufactured by Dartmouth-based Dispension Industries. The federal Health...
View ArticleServUs Eyes Expansion
After building up its business in British Columbia, Fredericton-based ServUs Health is looking to expand on the West Coast and in its home market of New Brunswick. The web-based company helps seniors...
View ArticleGenesis Partners with BDO Canada
St. John’s-based Genesis, Memorial University’s incubator for tech startups, has announced a partnership with the St. John’s office of BDO Canada, which is designed to benefit entrepreneurs in its...
View ArticlePassiv Now Manages $1B in Assets
Passiv, the Fredericton company that helps passive investors rebalance their portfolios, has been growing so strongly that it can now say investors are using its software to manage $1 billion in...
View ArticleClean Leadership Interns Program Open
Applications are open for the Clean Leadership Summer Internship Program, which is targeting Nova Scotians between the ages of 15 and 30. This year, over 100 internship positions are available,...
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