Nova Scotia industry group BioNova has appointed Doris Grant, formerly a high-ranking Nova Scotia Health Authority civil servant, as its vice president of business development and strategy.

At the NSHA, Grant was senior director of innovation,

A $50 million funding package to create a new BioAccelerator life sciences hub on Prince Edward Island, announced Friday, is set to become the largest single investment in economic development infrastructure in the province’s history.

Spearheaded

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are giving the Université de Moncton a combined $324,000 worth of grants to create a new artificial intelligence hub at its Shippagan, New Brunswick campus.

Dubbed

For a week this March, entrepreneurs, students and researchers will gather in Fredericton for the city’s Boost Ideation Camp with the aim of developing new ways to track and reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Backed by Fredericton business

Dartmouth’s CarbonCure Technologies has managed to successfully sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide in concrete as part of a joint project with Brisbane, California-based Heirloom, in what both companies have described as a world first.

CarbonCure

Cross-border business development accelerator Scale-up Hub: Atlanta, has announced its nine-company winter cohort.

The group includes five companies from New Brunswick, two from Nova Scotia and one from Prince Edward Island, as well as one

St. John’s-based SiftMed, which sells software for cleaning up disorganized medical records, has raised a $2.7 million seed round led by the Atlantic Canadian female-focused VC fund Sandpiper Ventures. 

Chief Executive Holly Hill said in an

Halifax-based social network for medical professionals The Rounds has closed two follow-on investments to a prior Series A funding round, bringing the company's total capital raised since its founding in 2012 to around $9.4 million.

The latest

Halifax biomarker-testing startup Myomar Molecular is ramping up clinical trials and preparing to file a patent application, as it eyes a possible crowdfunding campaign to raise capital later this year.

Myomar, which is developing a urine test to

Eleven bluetech startups from around the world presented at the IMPAC5 conference in Vancouver on Monday, showcasing how they can help to protect marine environments.  

Startups and social enterprises were invited to present their ideas for

Invest Nova Scotia, the successor to recently amalgamated provincial venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp and business development corporation Nova Scotia Business Inc., will hold this year’s NEXT conference March 2.

The NEXT Nova Scotia

Newfoundland and Labrador industry group TechNL is looking for nominees for its board of directors with expertise in cybersecurity and risk management, finance and facilities management.

TechNL members can either nominate someone else for the role