It was a willingness to pivot based on market feedback that helped propel Halifax-based Dash Hudson to an enterprise employing 220 people, but it may have been a resolute focus on human resources that made the business sustainable.

Audiences at Entrevestor Live last month heard from Co-Founder Tomek Niewiarowski and Vice-President of Operations Jill Hennigar that while Dash Hudson was founded in

Having just closed $10 million in funding, Sparrow BioAcoustics is setting its sights on building the world’s biggest databank of cardiological recordings, and helping doctors and patients understand how that can help them.

Last week, the five-year-old St. John’s medtech company announced it had closed a $13 million seed round, led by Killick Capital, Klister Credit and Pelorus Ventures. In an

St. John’s-based Mysa has closed an $11 million round of funding, which is a continuation of the $20.3 million Series B round it announced in 2021.

The investors in the continuation round are all returning from the previous funding round: Climate Innovation Capital (CIimateIC), Cycle Capital, Bruce Croxon’s Round 13 Capital, Business Development Bank of Canada, and Killick Capital. The original

As he mourns his late wife, educator Mary Kilfoil, Ed Leach focuses on their joint commitment to boosting entrepreneurship and employment among older workers. It’s an issue of fairness, but Leach stresses that prolonged working is also better for the individual and the nation.

“Employing older adults can have a positive impact on the economy, particularly in boosting GDP,” Leach told

Two weeks after it won entry to a high-profile American accelerator, Halifax-based Wellnify has announced a partnership agreement with another Nova Scotia company, outdoor gym equipment-maker Outdoor-Fit Exercise Systems.

Under the deal, 61 schools in Milwaukee where Outdoor-Fit has already installed its exercise equipment will have access to Wellnify’s app, which aims to use gamification and

Two weeks after Dartmouth-based Aurea Technologies opened its Kickstarter campaign for the next generation of its portable wind turbines, the company has raised over 13 times its goal, as CEO Cat Adalay eyes deliveries in January or February.

The campaign to fund production of the Shine 2.0 originally had a target of $30,000, but Aurea actually received $405,000 worth of pre-orders for 600

Invest Nova Scotia has announced the 10 companies joining the latest cohort of its Accelerate startup program.

Now in its fourth year, Accelerate offers participating startups four months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding. It is completely virtual and aimed at companies that have already established market opportunities for products based on science or engineering-related

KardioDiagnostix, the Halifax maker of AI for analyzing paediatric heart murmurs, has expanded its research and development efforts via an agreement with a clinic in Toronto after gathering data from about 400 patients in Nova Scotia.

In an interview this week, Co-Founders Dr. Robert Chen, Dr. Santokh Dhillon and Mohammed Shameer Iqbal, the CEO, said they hope to commence similar operations in

The organizers of this year’s InnovateNB Awards are seeking nominations for people and companies.

Nominations are being sought for the InnovateNB awards that recognize individuals and companies that deserve to be celebrated for their contributions to the innovation economy.

This is the InnovateNB Awards’ third year succeeding the longstanding KIRA awards. The event is hosted jointly by a

When life sciences entrepreneurs and investors gathered at the Halifax Convention Centre for this year’s BioPort Atlantic conference, they received a day and a half of advice from senior players in the industry, including on managing risk, finding talent and doing business with healthcare organizations.

This year marked the 23rd BioPort conference, which is organized by industry group Life