A quartet of startups delivered pitches of about half an hour each to an audience of investors and ecosystem members Thursday night in Halifax at an investment club event hosted by SUMS Capital, a platform for early-stage companies to communicate with their financial backers.

Co-founded by life sciences industry veterans Peter Hickey, Neil Smith and Kent MacLean, SUMS has developed a platform

The University of New Brunswick’s Energia Ventures accelerator for energy, cleantech, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence companies is looking for applicants for its spring cohort.

The accelerator, which is based in Fredericton at UNB’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship, or TME, holds two virtual cohorts per year. Companies receive access to mentoring,

Halifax’s SimplyCast, which sells a platform for companies to consolidate and automate their marketing efforts and communications, is expanding its Canadian server group in response to growing demand.

Chief executive Saeed El-Darahali said in an interview Tuesday that the increasing proliferation of data localization laws, which require businesses to store information in the same country where

Two years after it announced it would open a branch office in Halifax, international technology consultancy and services company Cognizant plans to double its presence in the city, adding another 1,000 jobs.

When Cognizant originally announced it was coming to Nova Scotia, it pledged to employ 1,250 people under a payroll rebate agreement with provincial business development agency Nova Scotia

Eight startups presented Thursday at Halifax innovation hub Volta’s annual Democamp event, showcasing their technology to an audience of investors and ecosystem members.

Held at Volta’s new offices overlooking Argyle Street, one of the event’s core conceits was that entrepreneurs could not make their presentations with the aid of a slide deck. The aim of Democamp is that presenters focus on

Dalhousie University’s Emera ideaHUB has opened applications for this year’s ideaBUILD accelerator — a 10-month program meant to help deeptech startups develop and manufacture their products.

The program lasts 10 months and offers participating companies up to $10,000 of funding, as well as access to training workshops, research and development facilities, technical assistance and one-on-one

Seven months after it won United States Food and Drug Administration approval, St. John’s-based Sparrow Bioacoustics has launched its stethoscope app for smartphones in the United States.

The app, called Stethophone, uses a phone’s internal microphones, along with software processing, to allow the device to function as an ad hoc stethoscope when it is held against a patient’s chest. And in a nod

Invest Nova Scotia, the provincial business development agency, is seeking applicants to its Market Entry Development Program, which helps businesses establish a virtual presence in Europe or Asia in preparation to begin exporting.

The program, which is focused on countries that have trade agreements with Canada, involves Invest Nova Scotia helping participants develop strategies tailored to

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced seven “commercialization-ready” academic research projects receiving a combined $540,000 from this year’s Climate Impact Grants.

NBIF and economic development agency Opportunities New Brunswick created the Climate Impact Research Fund to accelerate the development and implementation of technology for climate change mitigation and adaptation,

Halifax startup hub Volta will host a Women Taking over the World with Tech, or WTWT, pitch competition next Tuesday, March 26 at 4:00 p.m.

The competition, to be held virtually, will invite female founders to deliver three-minute pitches and receive feedback from a panel of of industry experts. The judging will be based on the quality of both the pitch and the underlying business, and the