A Halifax-area company is aiming to build a ready-to-use underwater platform with a suite of “lab-on-a-chip” sensors for marine research.

Dartmouth Ocean Technologies, or DOT, is the creation of president Arnold Furlong and Director of Innovation Roger Race. Furlong is a serial entrepreneur specializing in marine technology, and Race is a biologist and engineer based out of Dartmouth,

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The origins of ONSIDE, one of the newest components of the Nova Scotia startup ecosystem, date back four years to when a group of business, government and academic leaders joined an ecosystem acceleration program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It was called the Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program, or REAP, which MIT initiated in 2012. Nova Scotia was

Fredericton-based Potential Motors, a software company that uses Artificial Intelligence to boost vehicle safety and performance, has closed a $2.5 million funding round, with which it plans to increase its staff.

The company issued a statement Wednesday saying that Build Ventures, the Atlantic Canadian seed-stage investor that had the initial close of its second fund last year, led the round.

Halifax’s HomeEXCEPT, which sells remote-monitoring equipment to help with senior care, is launching a version of its product that can be installed without the help of a technician.

CEO John Robertson said in an interview that the new iteration was in the works before the COVID-19 crisis. But the timing of the launch will allow customers to purchase the equipment without the need to risk

Digital Nova Scotia, the province’s technology industry association, is seeking nominees for its 2020 Digital Diversity Awards.

The awards honour people and companies that are “driving innovation through diversity,” with the ceremony tentatively scheduled for Oct. 22.

There are five award categories:

• Next Generation Leadership – This award recognizes an emerging female leader who is focused

Fredericton entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch is moving its second annual Sales Accelerator Program online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the six-week program, participating startups will receive training from sales professionals, up to $25,000 of funding and an intern, whose salary will be paid by Planet Hatch and its partner organizations.

The goal of the accelerator is to give

LeadSift CEO Tukan Das is hosting a webinar Thursday for salespeople looking for ideas about how to continue generating business during the pandemic.

Das, whose company sells software to help identify and research business-to-business sales leads, often hosts online events featuring sales and marketing specialists.

Also in attendance will be Jeff Kostermans, who is senior director of demand

As founders continue to grapple with the implications of COVID-19, a nascent Halifax psychology startup is changing its launch plans to help the public cope with the lockdown.

The startup 90Second Health is the brainchild of psychologist Dr. Patrick McGrath, who is a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University and a researcher at the IWK Health Centre. The company’s main business model is to

Peter and Sarah Eastwood, local potters and creative entrepreneurs, have launched a new online marketplace to help Nova Scotian crafters and makers sell their creations amid the COVID-19 crisis.

The new site, novascotiamakersmarket.ca, gives local artisans the ability to create their own store to sell their products online in a virtual marketplace, without the initial upfront costs of designing

We’d like to welcome Avery Mullen to the Entrevestor team for the next four months.

Our regular readers will recognize Avery’s byline as he’s been our intern for the past two years, and now he’s joined us as our full-time reporter for the summer.

Avery is going into his final year at the University of King’s College Journalism School, and has a keen interest in business journalism. When we