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Building event showcases innovations that cut emissions
The Smart Sustainable Resilient Infrastructure Association is showcasing innovations from Alberta's building industry at a Nov. 19 showcase event, including one company from the region that uses local hay to increase efficiency.
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Wyvern head says anything possible in Edmonton after US$6-million investment
Hot on the heels of receiving US$6 million in new investment, a co-founder of hyperspectral imagery company Wyvern said space isn't the final frontier for Edmonton's startup ecosystem — it's imagination.
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The Fort Distillery wins Startup TNT's Summit X
The Fort Distillery won at least $150,000 in investment at Startup TNT's Summit X on Nov. 14, held at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.
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Alberta Ecotrust aims to accelerate building retrofits
The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation is investing $15 million to spark deep retrofits across Alberta, an effort it hopes can make the process of reducing building emissions simpler and cheaper.
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Atadel's latest app expands delivery services and is capable of rideshare
The tech-enabled delivery service Atadel is expanding from food and grocery delivery to packages, retail, and eventually to rideshare services, with what its co-founders call the "Super App."
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ChargeStop builds Canada's first dedicated EV station in Strathcona
The CEO of ChargeStop Technologies, which opened a new electric vehicle charging station at Whyte Avenue and 99 Street, said it's "a gas station without gas," and the first of its kind in Canada.
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RUNWITHIT Synthetics secures $3.5M investment to put its tools into more hands
The $3.5 million investment RUNWITHIT Synthetics has received from Raven Indigenous Capital Partners will allow the company to create new products for more customers across the globe and to hire more people, including in business development, to allow it to establish further hubs for people who make change.
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CarePros growth spurs new company and product launch
The people behind growing child-intervention agency CarePros are launching a new company that offers the software they have developed to allow healthcare providers in Alberta and beyond to focus less on paperwork, data encryption, and data insights, and more on actual care.
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Alberta oil to become carbon fibre in new Edmonton facility
Researchers will establish processes to turn the bitumen found in Alberta's oilsands into carbon fibre, a common building material in sports equipment, automobiles, wind turbines, and mobility scooters, after Alberta Innovates received $10 million from Prairies Economic Development Canada in July.
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