News | May 10/21
DMF Medical’s memsorb™ Receives Health Canada Approval on All Major Anesthesia Platforms in Canada

DMF Medical Incorporated, a privately held medical device company, is pleased to announce it has received a Class II medical device license from Health Canada to sell its memsorb™ carbon dioxide (CO2) filtration device for general anesthesia in the Canadian market on all major platforms.

News | Mar 30/21
Audioptics Medical Closes $1.9 Million Seed Investment Round to Help Surgeons Treat Hearing Loss by More Accurately Visualizing & Diagnosing Middle Ear Pathologies

Audioptics Medical, a Canadian medical device company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has closed a $1.9 million seed investment round led by Innovacorp and Carl Zeiss Meditec AG.

News | Mar 10/21
Early Stage Commercialization Fund: 2020-2021 Funded Projects

Innovacorp’s Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF) helps move Nova Scotia university, college and university-affiliated hospital research to market. 

Below is a list of the 2020-2021 funded projects. 

News | Feb 25/21
McCain Foods Upping the Stakes in Vertical Farming with TruLeaf, GoodLeaf

McCain Foods Limited has made a substantial investment in TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture and its wholly owned subsidiary GoodLeaf Farms, Canada's largest commercial vertical farming operation, to help drive the company's growth and expansion plans.

News | Feb 11/21
Talem Health Analytics Raises $2.3 Million to Accelerate its AI platform Rollout to the Auto Insurance Sector

Talem Health Analytics — a technology company for auto insurers — announced today it closed a C$2.3 million seed round led by Build Ventures, with participation from Innovacorp, HOLT Accelerator, all existing angel investors, and new angel investors.

News | Feb 11/21
Strengthening Atlantic Canada’s Blue Economy

COVE’s new multi-use platform enables rapid, cost-effective product development in ocean technology sector.

News | Feb 9/21
Start-Ups Selected for Winter 2021 GreenShoots Program

Bioenterprise, Innovacorp, and Nova Scotia Innovation Hub are announcing the companies selected for their latest GreenShoots program intake. Each start-up will receive up to $40,000 and business guidance from seasoned professionals to put their plans into action.

News | Jan 29/21
Start-Ups Selected for Winter 2021 Sprint Competition

Forty applications from across Nova Scotia. Thirteen pitches from shortlisted start-ups. Seven winners.

News | Dec 8/20
NBIF launches $500,000 fund to help New Brunswick researchers commercialize early stage innovations

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) is pleased to announce the launch of the Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF), thanks to support from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (...

Paper Chasin | Oct 29/20
Shoulder to Shoulder: An Update from Reach Orthopaedics

This article was written by Michael Bochoff, Marketing & Communications Specialist at Innovacorp.

Although the pandemic cancelled countless meetings and networking sessions and pushed back fundraising timelines, Reach Orthopaedics has continued to press forward with its innovative shoulder implant for patients...