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A Chester-based company that turns municipal waste into valuable products is receiving a $100,000 seed investment from Innovacorp to take its technology to market.

NOTE: A brief description of all the winners is available here.

Innovacorp’s Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF) helps move Nova Scotia university and community college research to market. Below is a list of the 2015-2016 funded projects.

Densitas density measures provide an alternative to clinical risk factors in predicting cancer risk

The British Journal of Radiology this week published a study on risk factors used to evaluate a woman’s risk of breast cancer at the time of imaging. The study looked at the use of breast density measurements exclusively versus traditional clinical risk factors such as age, family…

Fifteen Nova Scotia start-ups have won $850,000 total, in cash and services, to further develop their knowledge-based companies.

Innovacorp has announced the zone and sector winners in the 2015-2016 provincial I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition, a competition to find and support high potential early stage Nova Scotia knowledge-based companies. (Winner descriptions are below.)

Proposify, cloud-based software that streamlines the proposal process, experienced a 1,500 per cent growth in recurring revenue and 709 per cent growth in customers in 2015 within the highly competitive online sales automation market.

Immunovaccine Inc., a clinical stage vaccine and immunotherapy company, today announced that its chief executive officer, Marc Mansour, will participate in a panel discussion at Biotech Showcase 2016. 

We’re shaking things up on our investment team and thought you should know.

Immunovaccine Inc., a clinical stage vaccine and immunotherapy company, today announced the publication of research that used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to predict and optimize the efficacy of its cancer vaccines by measuring size changes in vaccine-draining lymph nodes.

QRA Corp has initiated work to provide Lockheed Martin engineers with an advanced early-stage systems verification solution for the proactive development of increasingly complex cyber-physical designs.