Industry group Digital Nova Scotia has a new CEO: software-as-a-service veteran Owen Sagness.

With a background at Microsoft, where he eventually became the U.K. managing director for advertising and online, Sagness most recently founded consulting firm Cypian, which works specifically with startups. He has also served as interim CEO at several early-stage companies.

“I am thrilled to be

Arolytics, the Halifax- and Calgary-based maker of emissions tracking software for oil and gas companies, has raised a seed round worth over $3.5 million, led by BDC Capital’s new, $150 million Sustainability Venture Fund.

Other backers of the round included Vancouver-based Yaletown Partners, returning Alberta investors Metiquity Ventures and Startup TNT and an unnamed strategic backer from

Boston-based bluetech innovation hub SeaAhead and the New England Aquarium have selected a fourth cohort of startups for BlueSwell, a program focused on early-stage bluetech innovation.   

The five startups target decarbonization, ocean data collection, and cellular agriculture.

“These ventures sit at the intersection between innovation and conservation, led by deeply talented and driven

The Halifax maker of anti-microbial film for fish packaging that was formerly called Impactful Health R&D has rebranded to Freshr Sustainable Technologies.

Freshr, which was founded by biomaterials researcher Mina Mekhail in 2017 and makes its packaging from sustainable materials, said in a statement that the new name is meant to highlight how the company’s product offers food packagers benefits

A group of innovation ecosystem support groups on Prince Edward Island are collaborating to host a one-day entrepreneurship conference in Charlottetown Nov. 2.

The Summit for Island Entrepreneurs and Innovators is being organized by Startup Zone, foodtech industry group the Food Island Partnership, bioscience incubator Emergence, virtual incubator Propel, Innovation P.E.I. and the law firm

On the eve of Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Saint John-headquartered North Shore Mi’kmaq District Council has inked $3 million worth of investment deals with two makers of next-generation nuclear reactors.

The two nuclear companies, Moltex Energy and ARC Clean Technology, both plan to build "small modular reactors" in New Brunswick. The new systems will be less than a

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a raft of new artificial intelligence-related research and development deals with the private sector, including a $10.5 million, six-company group working on environmental assessments for tidal energy projects.

The Supercluster has made funding AI a priority in recent months, with the federally backed oceantech hub having last spring announced a

The Prince Edward Island BioAlliance has become the first North American group to receive the Gold Label of Cluster Management Excellence by the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis.

The Charlottetown-based group, which brings together government, business and academia to support the life sciences ecosystem, said in a press release Wednesday it is one of 144 economic clusters to receive the

Energia Ventures, the Fredericton-based accelerator affiliated with University of New Brunswick, launched its 10th cohort this week, with five participants from as far away as  Israel.

Energia is hosted by the university’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship, or TME, and supports startups from around the world involved in energy, smart grids, cleantech and

Chester, N.S.-based circular economy company Sustane has won Canadian Food Inspection Agency approval for its organic GroBoost Fertilizer product as it eyes commercialization.

Sustane has developed technology for repurposing curbside garbage into high-value fuels and biomass pellets, converting up to 90 percent of  municipal solid waste into valuable commercial products.

The company itself grew