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Applications are now open for FounderFuel’s fall 2015 cohort.

GoodLeaf Community Farms Ltd. (GoodLeaf Farms), a wholly owned subsidiary of TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture Ltd. (TruLeaf), has awarded a contract to Fowler Construction Services Ltd. (Fowler Construction) to begin construction of its first farm, in Bible Hill, this month.

Nova Scotia companies can boost innovation and productivity with expertise and services from the province's universities and colleges.

The Productivity and Innovation Voucher Program, now managed by Innovacorp, is open for applications from small and medium-sized businesses. The deadline is July 3.

aioTV, a global provider of middleware and back-office tools for video service providers, recently announced a new offering for multichannel video programming distributors, internet-service providers and wireless operators. The web-video product, called Cuyte, centres on free, unlicensed video that could lead to a broader offering by incorporating licensed and subscription-TV services.

Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister, Chris Alexander, touted the success of the Start-up Visa Program today (May 29, 2015) with the announcement of more successful applicants who have been approved for permanent residence in recent months.

Densitas Inc. announced today it has received 13485:2003 certification from the International Standards Organization (ISO). This ISO standard specifies the requirements for comprehensive quality management systems for the design and manufacture of medical devices. Densitas is an early stage start-up company that develops software for use in the digital mammography enterprise.

Innovacorp investment manager DAWN UMLAH asks The Great “Lean Out” Question in the latest post on her personal blog, DAWN UNFILTERED. You should check it out regularly for her insights and tales about the VC and technology worlds she lives in.

CarbonCure Technologies Inc., a green technology company serving the concrete sector, has closed a $3 million Series C investment round.

Best wishes for what’s next for long-time friend and colleague, Peter Mugridge, our (now former) manager of properties and incubation. We’ll miss you!

aioTV, a global provider of back-office tools for video service providers, today announced they received U.S. Patent No. 9,027,065 granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering, among other things, the normalization of disparate metadata sources, associated packaging and video playback.