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A new pain relief company is receiving $50,000 in funding and business guidance through Innovacorp’s 2018 Spark Innovation Challenge, a province-wide competition for new technology companies. The business, Panag Pharma, is one of four winners selected in the Halifax region.

The winners of our 2018 Spark Innovation Challenge are described below.

Metamaterial Technologies Inc. (MTI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Douglas Hall as chair and Bill Lambert and Eric Leslie as board members.

Judges gathered in the four Spark competition regions last week to review the 122 Spark submissions. The judging committees in each region selected a shortlist of applicants to move on in the competition.

Read about the 27 shortlisted companies below:

The following post is from Innovacorp marketing & communications assistant Michael Bochoff.

RetailDeep, the Halifax startup that used to be known as Skyline, is currently in the running for some big prizes and was shortlisted to the Top 20 at the XRC Labs innovation accelerator in New York City.

Roberts Oxygen Company, Inc., America’s leading independent distributor of compressed industrial gases, has teamed up with CarbonCure Technologies to provide a complete solution for innovative carbon dioxide utilization for the concrete industry in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.

Spring Loaded Technology announced today an enhanced solution for the 14 million people in North America living with knee osteoarthritis through their latest product development efforts.

The following post is from Innovacorp marketing & communications assistant Michael Bochoff.

Ocean innovators will soon have a new place to work and collaborate, with the Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, known as COVE, set to open this spring.