Invest Nova Scotia has announced 11 companies joining the first 2023 cohort of its Accelerate startup program.

Accelerate offers participating companies 5 months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding.

Accelerate, which Innovacorp retooled in the summer of 2021, replaced both the old, longer program of the same name and the shorter Sprint accelerator. It is completely virtual

Halifax-based innovation hub Volta today announced it will move its operations this fall to the Armoyan Centre at 1800 Argyle Street, the former World Trade Centre building.

The decade-old startup support organization until recently occupied the first three floors of the Maritime Centre, at the corner of Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road. With more than 40 resident startups, it needed

This year’s edition of BSides Halifax, which is a community-run cybersecurity conference, is coming May 4.

The BSides conferences, held at numerous locations around the world, are a franchise of information security gatherings that offer event organizers a “peer-to-peer framework” for engaging with industry players.

The Halifax event, which will be held at the Halifax Central Library from 9:00

Mariner Partners-owned Shift Energy has reached a deal to roll out its artificial intelligence technology for managing electricity consumption across 10 Toronto area buildings owned by commercial property giant Cadillac Fairview.

Shift’s technology, which Mariner originally backed as an investor in successive funding deals before eventually purchasing the company outright, uses AI to optimize

Halifax’s Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, has inked a two-year deal to apply its new coating for ship propellers to 25 vessels owned by London, U.K.-based tanker company Stolt Tankers.

Stolt Tankers is the shipping division of Stolt-Nielsen, which was founded in 1959 and now operates more than 150 tanker ships, as well as fish farms and shipping terminals.

Founded in 2017

Veer Group, the brainchild of Lunenburg, N.S.-based shipping entrepreneur Danielle Southcott, is raising capital and searching for a manufacturing partner for its planned hydrogen- and wind-powered container ships.

So far, CEO Southcott said in an interview, Veer has raised about US$1.6 million (C$2.2 million), and hopes to raise about another US$2.4 million to cover operating expenses while it

Virtual startup accelerator Propel has announced the finalists for its annual Gerry Pond Sales Award, with food-related startups making a strong showing.

The Gerry Pond Award is an annual, $25,000 cash prize in honour of former NBTel CEO and Aliant Telecom President Gerry Pond, who went on to co-found Saint John-based Mariner Partners and Propel itself. Propel, meanwhile, offers a suite of

Martha Casey, the former CEO of Halifax startup hub Volta, has been named interim co-CEO of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, replacing Richard Florizone, who she also worked under at Dalhousie University.

Casey joined the IISD about a year ago, overseeing the think tank’s administration as vice president for operations and business transformation. Her new co-president and

This year’s Canadian Women in Ocean Industries Leadership Conference, or CWOIL, will be in St. John’s from May 9 to 11, with the aim of fostering blue economy participation by women.

CWOIL aims to increase the competitiveness of the oceans sector by expanding its talent pipeline, particularly for women from marginalized groups such as the LGBTQ community and Indigenous women.

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The David Sobey Centre National Retail Innovation Awards recognized three Canadian startups last week for improving customer service and product accessibility.

The David Sobey Centre for Innovation in Retailing and Services at Saint Mary’s University has handed out the awards since 2017 in recognition of young companies that are improving retail through sustainable solutions, e-commerce,