Development group Halifax Partnership has named Patrick Farrar its new Director of Innovation responsible for promoting innovative companies in the city.

“We are thrilled to have Patrick join our team to continue supporting the rapid growth of startups and scaleups in Halifax,” said Wendy Luther, HP President and CEO, in a statement.

“Patrick will work with partners to advance Halifax’s

St. John’s-based BreatheSuite, whose products help people to use their inhalers properly, has been accepted into the seventh cohort of the prestigious Lazaridis ScaleUp program.

The Lazaridis Institute for the Management of Technology Enterprises, part of the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Kitchener, Ont., last week named 11 Canadian companies to the

Granville Biomedical, the St. John’s-based maker of medical testing swabs, has formed a partnership with Toronto’s Inagene Diagnostics to develop a cheek swab for testing patients’ DNA and determining which medications are most compatible with their biology.

Co-Founder and CEO Christine Goudie said in an interview that the cheek swab uses a similar design to a COVID-19 nasal testing swab her

St. John’s-based Mysa Smart Thermostat has raised a $20.3 million Series B funding round to scale up its marketing and finance an international expansion.

The deal was led by Cycle Capital Management, a cleantech-focused venture capital fund based in Montreal. The other investors included Bruce Croxon’s Round13 Capital via its Earth Tech Fund, as well as Climate Innovation Capital, BDC Capital,

Innovacorp has put out a call for applicants to its GreenShoots funding and mentorship program, which will offer six agtech, biotech or cleantech companies up to $40,000 in grants.

The competition is run by Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia Innovation Hub and Guelph, Ont.-based Bioenterprise Corporation. To qualify, startups must have booked less than $1 million in cumulative sales and not have

The annual Spark Nova Scotia startup competition has awarded five-figure cash prizes to 10 startups, with a strong focus this year on medtech and cleantech innovation.

The 10 companies received a combined $375,000, with the top two bagging $50,000 each and the smallest prize being $10,000. Four of the 10 winners sell health-related products and three are involved in cleantech.

Now in its

Halifax’s Densitas has inked a deal with nonprofit RAD-AID International to deploy its intelliMammo AI mammography software at a hospital in Guyana, where the country’s government runs a publicly funded screening program aimed at combatting rising breast cancer rates.

The intelliMammo platform consolidates three previous software offerings from Densitas that measured patients’ breast density,

Swiftsure Innovations, the Pasadena, NL-based startup developing a device for cleaning the mouths and throats of people on ventilators, has raised $1.05 million in an oversubscribed seed round.

The round’s backers included Threshold Impact, Killick Capital, Pluto Investments, Pelorus Venture Capital and female-focused venture capital firm Sandpiper Ventures. Sandpiper revealed it had invested in

Sonrai Security has closed a US$50 million (C$61.9 million) Series C funding round, meaning the New York- and Fredericton-based cloud security company has now raised US$88 million in less than three years.

Sonrai issued a press release last week saying the round was led by the venture capital arm of London-based cybersecurity company Istari, which was set up last year by the Singapore

The Future of Hockey Lab in Halifax is looking for a Chief Program Officer, which headlines our Job of the Week column today.

The Future of Hockey Lab says it is the first social innovation lab in the world working to solve access in the sport of hockey. It was established because, while hockey is loved by many, it's only truly accessible to a select few, and that number gets smaller every year