Four Canadian teams have won a collective $22,500 in the first-ever Ocean Communities Climate Challenge, a program designed to help businesses improve ocean sustainability.

The Challenge was presented by the Ocean Startup Project, a national organization that offers resources and support to help sustainability-focused startups. The challenge started in May, and supported startups focused on:

Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada is donating $3 million to help grow B.C.'s ocean and marine technology sectors and foster Indigenous entrepreneurship and expertise in emerging industries.

The federal government’s economic development agency is contributing the money to the South Island Prosperity Partnership. The Partnership will use the funds to support the blue economy through

The cryptocurrency world’s first public look at the sophisticated hacking operation in its midst, which Fredericton crypto-sleuthing startup Gray Wolf Analytics is playing a key role in investigating, came via a Twitter thread from an anonymous industry account.

The April 18 thread described a successful and widespread effort to hack the digital “wallets” of cryptocurrency owners and steal their

Halifax space startup Galaxia Mission Systems is receiving $1.7 million from the Canadian Space Agency to launch the first two in a “constellation” of satellites equipped with its edge computing technology.

Galaxia, founded in 2020 by Dalhousie University engineer Arad Gharagozli, is developing technology to allow groups of satellites to complete computing tasks among themselves, rather than

David Hodgson, CEO and Co-founder of Halifax-based Hollo Medical, has won the 2023 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards, or GSEA, beating out almost 1,100 entrepreneurs from all over the world.

Hodgson claimed the US$50,000 (C$66,000) first prize at an event in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday. His medtech company, which aims to reduce the size of children’s inhalers, has been one of the most

Gaming software company Swarmio Media Holdings,  which has received about $5.7 million in funding from government agencies, has filed for creditor protection.

The IT company, which has had operations in Sydney and Halifax and is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange, developed a platform that reduces the latencies between data centres, which reduces the time lag of gamers playing one

Lunch and Learn, a virtual connector event for women entrepreneurs, will take place on Thursday. Hosted by ONSIDE, a community accelerator program in Nova Scotia, the event aims to help entrepreneurs of underrepresented groups network.

The organizers hope participants can foster meaningful and informative connections with other female entrepreneurs. The speakers at the event include:

• Nicole

St. John’s legal software startup Spellbook is launching a program to make its artificial intelligence system for contract drafting free to law students as the company looks to dramatically scale up its operation and consolidate triple-digit quarterly revenue growth.

Chief executive Scott Stevenson said in an interview that the student access initiative is in response to requests from professors

Industry group Digital Nova Scotia is seeking nominations for this year’s Tech Forward Awards, which honour social and business pioneers in the technology sector.

With winners in eight categories, the awards ceremony will be held Nov. 9 at the Halifax Marriot Harbourfront. People can self-nominate, or be nominated by their employers or industry peers. Digital Nova Scotia is particularly looking

Dalhousie University’s Ocean Alk-align research program, which is studying how to make the world’s oceans more alkaline, has received almost $15 million from the Carbon to Sea Initiative.

Katja Fennel, an oceanographer with Dalhousie, will lead a team of international researchers in the five-year study into reversing ocean acidification. Oceans are becoming more acidic, which is reducing their