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Halifax space startup Galaxia Mission Systems is receiving $1.7 million from the Canadian Space Agency to launch the first two in a “constellation” of satellites equipped with its edge computing ...
A new investment group called 7th Wave Capital has been launched to support five established businesses a year in the Maritime Provinces. The new Halifax-based group is headed by Paul LeBlanc, best ...
Invest Nova Scotia spent $8.8 million across 16 venture capital deals for its 2022-2023 fiscal year, which ended last March, and dispersed just under another $6.5 million to VC funds. With another ...
Today, we're announcing the full lineup for the 2023 edition of Entrevestor Live, which we believe is the greatest single showcase ever for innovation in the region. This conference highlighting the ...
The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation announced yesterday that the total prize value of its Breakthru competition – which assesses the business plans of embryonic companies -- has risen to a total ...
Jennifer Wagner and Mike Kelland listen to Marc St-Onge at Entrevestor Live. A common theme emerged in many of the startups featured at this year’s Entrevestor Live conference Tuesday: their business ...
We’re delighted to announce that our second annual Entrevestor Live event will be held on the afternoon of Oct. 20, and it will be hybrid so you can attend live or online. Showcasing some of the most ...
Joel Thompson: 'I’ve always been interested in telling stories of social good.' A New Brunswick-made documentary that explains the benefits of starting a social venture and gaining B Corp (Benefit ...
As improbable as it sounds, Doug Jones has turned a love of sports into a licencing business, then into an innovation hub in Yarmouth and then into an entrepreneurship network for rural Nova Scotia.
There are only three-and-a-half weeks left to register for Entrevestor Live, our annual event showcasing the best and the brightest in the Atlantic Canadian innovation community. To be held Sept. 17 ...
My wish-list for the Cape Breton startup community in 2020 (or shortly thereafter) is short and sweet – 1. a university computer science program, and 2. an angel group. The problem is its companies ...
Even if Verafin did not exist, the Newfoundland and Labrador startup community would have had a really good year in 2019. Of course, Verafin does exist, and it did raise $515 million in equity and ...