Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a raft of new artificial intelligence-related research and development deals with the private sector, including a $10.5 million, six-company group working on environmental assessments for tidal energy projects.

The Supercluster has made funding AI a priority in recent months, with the federally backed oceantech hub having last spring announced a

The Prince Edward Island BioAlliance has become the first North American group to receive the Gold Label of Cluster Management Excellence by the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis.

The Charlottetown-based group, which brings together government, business and academia to support the life sciences ecosystem, said in a press release Wednesday it is one of 144 economic clusters to receive the

Energia Ventures, the Fredericton-based accelerator affiliated with University of New Brunswick, launched its 10th cohort this week, with five participants from as far away as  Israel.

Energia is hosted by the university’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship, or TME, and supports startups from around the world involved in energy, smart grids, cleantech and

Chester, N.S.-based circular economy company Sustane has won Canadian Food Inspection Agency approval for its organic GroBoost Fertilizer product as it eyes commercialization.

Sustane has developed technology for repurposing curbside garbage into high-value fuels and biomass pellets, converting up to 90 percent of  municipal solid waste into valuable commercial products.

The company itself grew

Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to its Early Stage Commercialization Fund for university research, which offers startups up to $50,000 of funding.

The money can go towards assessing a product’s market potential, developing go-to-market strategies and other planning, finishing a proof-of-concept, prototyping and leveraging other funds.

And for the second time this year, Invest Nova

The Ghost Gear Fund, a federally funded program, has contributed $551,270 to Ocean Legacy Foundation to assist Nova Scotia in the clean up after Hurricane Fiona which struck the region a year ago.

B.C.-based Ocean Legacy Foundation is a Canadian non-profit that develops and implements worldwide plastic pollution response programs with the goal of ending plastic pollution.

The new funds will

The U.S. manufacturing partner of Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics has won Food and Drug Administration approval to sell Appili’s liquid formulation of the common antibiotic metronidazole under the name LIKMEZ.

The news comes just four months after Appili announced it had secured a U.S. patent for the new formulation, which will be manufactured and sold south of the border by

Halifax-based SkinFix has divested its SweetSpot Labs line of women’s health products in a deal with Miami-based private equity shop AOI Capital.

Launched in California in 2003 by entrepreneur Shari Creed, SweetSpot was bought by SkinFix in 2015 in a bid to round out its own line of skincare products. SweetSpot sells a range of genital health products for women for treating issues such as razor

Resson, the Fredericton developer of artificial intelligence systems to advise farmers about how to care for crops, has wound up its operations and officially been dissolved by Corporations Canada as of Wednesday, according to a regulatory filing in India.

In a letter to the National Stock Exchange of India, mandated under that country’s security laws, farm equipment giant Mahindra said it was

Two startup support organizations, an economic development specialist and a social venture focused on alleviating food insecurity were among the winners Wednesday of the fifth annual Ecosystem Impact Awards.

Hosted by Halifax startup hub Volta at Dalhousie University’s Ocean Sciences Building, the awards recognize founders and members of support organizations who have made significant