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A $100 Billion Goal
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Posted 29 July 2025 | innovation; start up; entrepreneurship; atlantic canada; venture

A $100 Billion Goal

https://media.transistor.fm/9ce0a7b7/f9101a6f.mp3 Marc Campagna has a fire in his belly. From selling high-end knockoffs in high school to a $100 million exit for his first startup, Oxio, he’s lived the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. Relocating to Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, Marc has...

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Where has the funding gone?
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Posted 8 July 2025 | innovation; start up; entrepreneurship; atlantic canada; venture

Where has the funding gone?

https://media.transistor.fm/a2409054/533c8326.mp3 New data shows VCs are pumping more money into later stage rounds at the expense of early stage startups. Matt Roberts, Managing Director VC Coverage at RBCx, Tash Jeffries, a Halifax-based serial founder and global startup advisor, and Ray...

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Turn Up the Cool: Ray Gracewood has a vision for a cooler Saint John
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Posted 17 June 2025 | innovation; start up; entrepreneurship; atlantic canada; venture

Turn Up the Cool: Ray Gracewood has a vision for a cooler Saint John

https://media.transistor.fm/81c04f96/95f58a1e.mp3 Turn Up the Cool: Ray Gracewood has a vision for a cooler Saint John. With his Waterfront Container Village and Area 506 music festival, this innovative entrepreneur, who helped make Organigram a cannabis powerhouse, is making it happen.

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Robot doctors? AI is transforming Maritime healthcare
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Posted 3 June 2025 | innovation; start up; entrepreneurship; atlantic canada; venture

Robot doctors? AI is transforming Maritime healthcare

https://media.transistor.fm/857c3ee3/2dd80298.mp3 AI will radically change healthcare. Matthew Murphy, Chief Data Officer at the Nova Scotia Health Authority, and Dr. Louis Beaubien, professor at Dalhousie University and Chief Scientific Officer of Halifax-based ResolveHD, join hosts Allan Gates...

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Into the Blue-Oceans of Opportunity- In partnership with Ocean Startup Project
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Posted 20 May 2025 | innovation; start up; entrepreneurship; atlantic canada; venture

Into the Blue-Oceans of Opportunity- In partnership with Ocean Startup Project

https://media.transistor.fm/61be22e7/84d9f955.mp3 Ride the wave of innovation as hosts Allan Gates and Chris Crowell explore the surging tide of technology revolutionizing the East Coast’s Ocean sector. They’re joined by Natasha Lagay from the Ocean Startup Project, who reveals how...

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Raising the Tides
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Posted 6 May 2025 | innovation; start up; entrepreneurship; atlantic canada; venture

Raising the Tides

https://media.transistor.fm/3300769e/29ad96ed.mp3 Hot on the heels of the Halifax Tides FC’s historic first game, we speak with club co-founder and CEO Courtney Sherlock about her vision for professional women’s soccer in Halifax, and how to turn a passion into a business.

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East of Montreal in the Big Smoke
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Posted 22 April 2025 | innovation; start up; entrepreneurship; atlantic canada; venture

East of Montreal in the Big Smoke

https://media.transistor.fm/c4083bae/f6097927.mp3 You probably don’t think of downtown Toronto when you hear “kitchen party”, but that is exactly what the ACG (Association for Corporate Growth) holds each spring at The Pilot, an iconic Yorkville tavern that dates back to World...

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Accessing Capital in Uncertain Times
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Posted 8 April 2025 | innovation; start up; entrepreneurship; atlantic canada; venture

Accessing Capital in Uncertain Times

https://media.transistor.fm/de01c9cf/68c520c7.mp3 Finding capital to fuel your start-up is always challenging. It’s even harder in the midst of a global trade war. Jeff White, CEO of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, and Kristina Milke, General Partner with Alberta’s Sprout...

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Tariff wars, Federal Election, Carney, what does it all mean for Atlantic Canadian businesses?
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Posted 25 March 2025 | innovation; start up; entrepreneurship; atlantic canada; venture

Tariff wars, Federal Election, Carney, what does it all mean for Atlantic Canadian businesses?

https://media.transistor.fm/6687461f/3a209261.mp3 It’s been a wild time in Canadian politics – Trudeau out, Carney in, tariff war with Trump, and now a federal election. David Tarrant with Enterprise Canada, Kelly Bennett with Abacus Data, and Trevor Floyd with Iris Communications...

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Critical Minerals – the New Gold Rush?
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Posted 11 March 2025 | innovation; start up; entrepreneurship; atlantic canada; venture

Critical Minerals – the New Gold Rush?

https://media.transistor.fm/f5fb73ab/e922b988.mp3 Critical minerals – critical to growing the East Coast economy? Like gold prospectors of old, Scott Eldridge sees opportunity – this time in a long abandoned mine in Nova Scotia. Backed by changing world markets and intriguing data,...

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