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COVE, Thales Name Digital Dockyard Winners
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
COVE to Host Demo Day Wednesday
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
QuickFacts Closes a $1.13M Round
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
Halifax Partnership, Volta Team Up on Cleantech
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
Lab2Market Oceans Seeks Applicants
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
CoLab’s Ford Deal Yields Productivity Gains
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
Cascadia Launches Fertilizer Product
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
Introhive Names Saeideh Fard CFO
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
Sparrow Wins FDA Approval
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
NeoCare Readying for Canadian Trials
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
Dal Innovates Announces Launch Cohorts
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
Sona Returns to its Roots
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