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

Dartmouth-based Metamaterial Inc., which makes advanced materials, is entering the geothermal electricity market in a partnership with Houston-based Sage Geosystems.

The two companies this week announced that they are collaborating on a next-generation geothermal technology called Pluton that is designed to drastically lower the price of geothermal and allow geothermal facilities in more

Fundmetric and Acadia University are teaming up to host the Fundraising AI Forum 2021, a virtual event that shows non-profits the advantages of advanced technologies like AI and how to adopt them.

The event, which will be held May 18, will feature several experts in AI adoption, who will discuss the capabilities of AI and show non-profits how they can use it to their advantage.

Fundmetric, a