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Halifax-based CarbonCure Technologies Inc. announced today that it has closed a $3.5 million Series B financing round led by BDC Venture Capital. Other investors include Eagle Cliff Partners, Innovacorp, 350 Capital and strategic investors.

Immunovaccine Inc. (“Immunovaccine” or “IMV”) (TSX-V: IMV), a clinical stage vaccine and immunotherapy company, has closed the previously announced private placement of its securities, raising gross proceeds of $4.2 million (the “Private Placement”).

The following I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition participants have been invited to compete in round two:

Zone 1 (Cumberland, Colchester, Pictou, Antigonish and Guysborough counties)

Innovacorp today announced the list of Nova Scotia start-ups moving on to round two of the I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition.

Halifax-based DeCell Technologies Inc. has come up with a better way to produce skin grafts for wound treatment.

With an equity investment from Innovacorp, Nova Scotia's early-stage venture capital organization, DeCell will complete the development and human testing of its first product for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers.

Halifax-based Analyze Re is developing technology to improve how the reinsurance industry, which provides insurance for insurance companies, analyzes huge volumes of complex data.

With investment from the province, Analyze Re plans to complete development of its product and build its customer base worldwide.

With more than 50,000 student members, Equals6 has become an important online community for high school and post-secondary students. The company helps members achieve their career and academic goals by connecting them with employers, peers and exclusive scholarships.

Health Outcomes Worldwide (HOW), Canada’s leading e-health software solutions provider for optimizing patient care and cost outcomes, today announced its award-winning how2trak software is now available as a mobile app on all iPads and Android mobile devices.

Tactics Cloud provides sales and marketing insights using billions of strands of publicly available social and business data to help identify individuals and groups with common skills, interests and relationships. Unlike social media monitoring solutions, Tactics Cloud focuses on social network connections to provide unique insights.

Once again, Nova Scotians have proven there’s no shortage of innovation and entrepreneurship happening across the province. Innovacorp received 228 submissions to this year's I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition.

The submission breakdown by zone is as follows: