With its user experience dialed-in, Halifax advertising startup Picture Pick has begun marketing itself to potential ad-buyers and bagged a deal with entertainment giant NBCUniversal Media.

Picture Pick’s app gamefies advertising by encouraging players to choose their favourite images or ads from a collection of 60 and then holding sweepstakes that award cash prizes to the people who choose the

The federally backed Sustainable Development Technology Canada foundation is expanding its cleantech Seed Fund by distributing grants to 21 new companies, including five with ties to Atlantic Canada.

The Seed Fund is now in its second year and has given grants of between $50,000 and $100,000 to 75 companies, with 52 startup accelerators acting as funding distribution partners.

STDC is funded by

Halifax startup incubator Volta has announced the creation of a new, year-long accelerator for AI startups focused on supply chains, with up to $14,000 of funding per company on offer.

The program, Volta AI, is the result of a partnership with Scale AI -- the federally backed supercluster that funds research partnerships using the same model as Canada’s Ocean Supercluser. To participate,

In the wake of launching a new, integrated version of its AI-based mammography software, Halifax’s Densitas has inked deals with the governments of New Brunswick, P.E.I. and Nova Scotia to roll out its technology in provincial hospitals and clinics.

The intelliMammo platform consolidates three previous software offerings from Densitas that measured patients’ breast density, assessed future

We are very happy to announce that Avery Mullen has joined the Entrevestor team as a reporter.

Mullen, who is just completing his final year at the University of King’s College School of Journalism, will be invaluable as we strive to cover the region’s ever-expanding innovation sector.  Regular readers will recognize Mullen’s byline as he has been freelancing for us since 2018 when he first

Innovacorp has opened applications for its Global Blue Innovation Challenge, which helps oceantech startups from other parts of the world immigrate to Nova Scotia.

The Nova Scotia early-stage venture capital agency will name as many as four winners in the competition, each of which will be given the opportunity to move to Nova Scotia under Canada’s Startup Visa program.

Each of the winning

DeNova Inc. is heading a $6 million project to develop its first facility, which will produce protein for aquaculture feed through a process that removes greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

There’s been a growing buzz about the three-year-old Halifax company because it is addressing two global problems – the climate crisis and the pending shortage of protein. Founder and CEO Brianna Stratton

Halifax-based Modest Tree, which sells augmented reality software, will spearhead a $2.2 million project from  Canada's Ocean Supercluster to develop a digital platform for ship and ocean equipment maintenance.

The system, dubbed “Tech Companion,” will aggregate design and maintenance information, including manuals and schematics, for use by technicians. It will be suitable for use with a wide

Planetary Hydrogen, a cleantech company that moved from Ottawa to Nova Scotia last year, has been accepted into the New York-based Carbon to Value Initiative, which encourages industrial uses of carbon dioxide.

The company launched in Ottawa a few years ago and last year moved most of its operations to the Halifax area because it was collaborating on research with Dalhousie University.

Now it

Entrevestor is delighted to be participating in the Nova Scotia Innovation Tour, a bi-weekly lunch-and-learn series presented by ONSIDE, which supports innovation in the province.

I’ll be kicking off the virtual series on Wednesday with the first public presentation of our 2020 data, and ONSIDE will also host five other seminars throughout the summer. My presentation this week will focus almost