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Today’s Weekly Dish checks out the food at two of the better-publicized, bigger, new brewpubs, Campio downtown and Polar Park in Old Strathcona. Polar Park Brewing is the brainchild of Robert Oeming, grandson of the late, great Al Oeming, the colourful owner of the long-defunct Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park private zoo. Polar Park is finally …
CONTINUE READINGHicks’ Weekly Dish: The craft-beer pub craze
A Winnipeg-based online flower delivery start-up that stepped inside the “Dragons’ Den” has walked away with a fresh-smelling deal. Callia Flowers and its 29-year-old tech entrepreneur, Catherine Metrycki, appeared on the CBC reality show Thursday night. Metrycki pitched her company to the venture capitalists and landed a $500,000 investment from Manjit Minhas for a 12.5 percent stake. “I’m thrilled my pitch connected with …
CONTINUE READINGWinnipeg-Based Callia Flowers Lands Deal on Dragons’ Den
EDMONTON, Alberta, Nov. 22, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Radar Endeavour Group Inc. is pleased to announce an exciting milestone: the success of our Venture Capital Corporation funding for G2V Optics Inc’s seed round. We have raised $800K CDN from experienced angels and first-time tech investors who all came together to support the vision expressed by the G2V Optics …
CONTINUE READINGRadar Endeavour Group Inc. We closed our raise || G2V Optics
‘Clean Tech’ Firm Building Revolutionary Indoor Farming Lighting, Plant Monitoring, and Data Science Platform Edmonton, AB, November 20, 2019 — G2V Optics, a fast-growing Edmonton-based firm revolutionizing smart lighting technology around the world, is embarking on several new commercial agricultural partnerships after closing a round of seed financing that raised CA$1.875 million (US$1.4 million). “Our technologies optimize …
Alberta company has created hempcrete blocks from industrial hemp that it claims are built to last for more than 100 years Humans have utilized many materials for their homes throughout the ages, from wood to metal to concrete. But what about hemp? Just BioFiber Structural Solutions, an Airdrie, Alberta-based company, has been utilizing hempcrete blocks …
CONTINUE READINGWelcome to my lightweight, fire-resistant, insect-repellent… hemp house
A Valhalla Angels Portfolio Company Global News Su-Ling Goh recently did a story on local Edmonton #PortfolioCompany iMbiotechnologies and their Ekobi Embolization Microspheres. Many women suffer silently from uterinefibroids and are unaware of non-surgical treatment options like embolization. Hear from one women that was successfully treated with Ekobi Embolization Microspheres, a new biodegradable embolic agent …
CONTINUE READINGGlobal News| Made-in-Edmonton technology helps doctors treat uterine fibroids |
LinkedIn Announcement: Good morningToronto & Hamilton! 🇨🇦🌤️ It’s official. Drake isn’t the only one with a team in Toronto. Our teams are now delivering Callia moments in the GTA and Hamilton! We’ve been working around the clock to finally open in one of our most requested locations and we couldn’t be more excited to finally …