CEO and Founder of Swiftsure Innovation Deanne McCarthy has experienced first-hand the amount of care required for mechanically ventilated patients. For her company, Newfoundland-based Swiftsure Innovation, above all, their mission is to support patients by developing products that will help prevent hospital-acquired infections.
For International Women’s Day this year, we are celebrating some of the female leaders in Atlantic Canada.
Women are becoming a powerful voice in the community. More support organizations are naming women as CEOs and placing them in other senior positions, and there are a growing number of female founders.
Forty applications from across Nova Scotia. Thirteen pitches from shortlisted start-ups. Seven winners.
Join us in congratulating the start-ups selected to participate in the 2021 Sprint winter intake.
Halifax-based innovation hub Volta has announced that five early-stage startups will each receive $25,000 and join the fall 2020 Volta Cohort program.
A Newfoundland company developing a new technology to help patients on ventilators has won BioNova’s 10th annual BioInnovation Challenge (BIC) business pitch competition.
With the win, Swiftsure Innovations scooped up a $55,000 prize that included $25,000 of seed funding and an advisory services package worth $30,000.