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COVE, Thales Name Digital Dockyard Winners

  • Jun 12, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship and Thales Canada have announced the winners of their Digital Dockyard naval innovation challenge: St. John’s-based CORSphere and Toronto’s Datifex.

CORSphere sells marine fleet

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COVE to Host Demo Day Wednesday

  • Jun 12, 2023
  • Emma Zhao and Avery Mullen

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE, will host its annual Demo Day on Wednesday, with bluetech companies demonstrating their innovations off the facility’s dock.

The event will include 17 exhibiting companies

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QuickFacts Closes a $1.13M Round

  • Jun 12, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based fintech company QuickFacts, which helps insurance brokers compare quotes from insurers, has closed a $1.13 million funding round as it starts to expand in Western Canada.

The company has been on a roll in the past few months as it won

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Halifax Partnership, Volta Team Up on Cleantech

  • Jun 12, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax Partnership and Volta announced Friday a joint program to support Nova Scotian cleantech companies at all stages of growth.

This partnership will give selected startups access to the Volta residency program and tailored support to help them

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Lab2Market Oceans Seeks Applicants

  • Jun 11, 2023
  • Emma Zhao

Memorial University and the Ocean Startup Project are calling for applications to their Lab2Market Oceans accelerator.

The program, part of a national group of accelerators, is aimed at helping academic researchers in the oceans space commercialize

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CoLab’s Ford Deal Yields Productivity Gains

  • Jun 08, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

CoLab Software, the St. John’s maker of collaboration software for 3D modelling, is seeing early success from its sales deal with automotive giant Ford.

The carmaker uses CoLab’s system in its Ford Pro department, which makes fleet management

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Cascadia Launches Fertilizer Product

  • Jun 07, 2023
  • Emma Zhao

Just in time for World Oceans Day, Sidney, B.C.-based Cascadia Seaweed is launching its first agricultural product — a kelp-based fertilizer dubbed ReFeed Seaweed Extract and released under a partnership with innovation hub ReFeed Canada.

The

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Introhive Names Saeideh Fard CFO

  • Jun 07, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Five months after it hired a new chief executive, Fredericton- and Miami-based artificial intelligence star Introhive also has a new chief financial officer.

Freshly minted CFO Saeideh Fard is a software-as-a-service veteran who most recently

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Sparrow Wins FDA Approval

  • Jun 06, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

St. John’s-based Sparrow BioAcoustics has won United States Food and Drug Administration approval for its smartphone stethoscope app.

The app uses a phone’s internal microphones, along with software processing, to allow the device to function as an

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NeoCare Readying for Canadian Trials

  • Jun 05, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

After successful medical trials in India, Halifax's NeoCare is aiming to recreate the promising results in Canada as it looks to secure regulatory approval and close a $750,000 funding round.

NeoCare’s flagship product is SAMIRA — a system that

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Dal Innovates Announces Launch Cohorts

  • Jun 05, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Dalhousie University’s startup hub Dal Innovates has announced the cohort for three Lab2Market Launch accelerators, part of a national research commercialization program for post-secondary institutions.

The programs include a research stream for

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Sona Returns to its Roots

  • Jun 04, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

Two years on from its dramatic stock matket spike during the pandemic, Dartmouth-based Sona Nanotech is once again focused on using its gold nanorods to battle cancer.

The company has had some major announcements in the first half of 2023. Having

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