Halifax’s Tranquility Online, whose digital solution helps people deal with anxiety, has been acquired by Toronto-based health insurer Green Shield Canada for an undisclosed sum.

The companies issued a statement on Wednesday saying Tranquility

Halifax’s Maritime Centre, the Barrington-street home of startup hub Volta, now sports a new mural celebrating Nova Scotia’s innovation community.

Painted by local artist John McPartland, who does business under the name ABSEN, the mural was paid

Texas energy giant Phillips 66 has paid US$150 million, or about C$188 million, for a 16 percent stake in Novonix Ltd., an Australian maker of materials for lithium-ion batteries that owns Novonix Battery Testing Solutions -- a startup spun off from

PanGeo Subsea, which was bought by fellow Newfoundland and Labrador company Kraken Robotics in July, will lead a $3.4 million Ocean Supercluster project to develop seafloor imaging technology for offshore energy installations.

Also on board are

Halifax startup hub Volta has opened applications for its ninth Volta Cohort pitch competition, held every six months.

The companies chosen to pitch will compete for $25,000 of early-stage investment from a “microfund” run by Volta, BDC Capital,

To launch its annual Report on Angel Investing in Canada, industry group the National Angel Capital Organization will hold a roundtable discussion Thursday featuring two speakers from Atlantic Canada.

NACO is an industry group comprised of angel

The annual Spark Nova Scotia startup competition, which offers winners up to $50,000 of non-dilutive funding, will hold its training seminars online again this year and has moved the registration deadline to August 30.

Entrepreneurs will still be

In our Job of the Week column today, we’re showcasing an opening posted by Dalhousie University for a Communications Manager for its Founders Skills Initiative, part of the I-INC program.

The Founders Skills Initiative is developing evidence-based

META, the Dartmouth-based advanced materials startup that in June became Atlantic Canada’s first publicly traded unicorn thanks to a reverse listing on the NASDAQ, will buy British Columbia’s Nanotech Security Corp. in a $90.8 million, all-cash

Fredericton- and Miami-based sales software startup Introhive said Thursday it has inked a deal with British Columbian consulting firm Traction on Demand to help identify gaps in companies’ sales data.

Under the deal, Introhive and Traction on

Dartmouth drug discovery company IMV is replacing its CEO.

Former Chief Executive Frederic Ors stepped down Wednesday, with Chief Business Officer Andrew Hall slated to serve as interim CEO until the Board of Directors hires a permanent replacement

Fredericton entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch has announced the 12 companies participating in its inaugural Newcomer Startup Accelerator, which targets international students and other new arrivals to Canada.

The accelerator will run until Aug. 26