Matthew Martel, previously COO of Halifax non-profit the Black Business Initiative, will replace Rustum Southwell as its CEO.

Southwell will retire Monday but oversee the transition to Martel’s leadership as an advisor.

Martel is a serial entrepreneur who holds a Master's Degree in Technology, Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Saint Mary's University and serves on the board of the Halifax

Halifax-based BlueNode, which sells logistics software for the shipping industry, has been acquired by San Marcos, California’s Everstream Analytics for an undisclosed price in what BlueNode CEO Louis Beaubien has described as a bid to diversify his company into verticals outside the maritime sector.

Founded in 2018 by Beaubien and COO Grant Wells, BlueNode has developed a supply chain analytics

Halifax’s Union.Dev, which makes administrative software for labour unions, now has clients across Canada and in several American states, with its cross-border expansion effort bolstered by the release of its second product.

Founded in 2018 by father-son team Randy and Kevin Ansems, Union.Dev’s first product was a pension management platform to help unions negotiate complex internal processes

Emera IdeaHUB Program Manager Barrinique Griffin has joined the board of directors of Onside, which aims to foster inclusive innovation in Nova Scotia.

Griffin, who spent four years at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education & Development before joining Dalhousie University's IdeaHUB, holds an MBA from that same school and teaches business at Nova Scotia Community College. She is also the

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced two new projects worth $4.3 million — a $1.3 million initiative to create a digital engineering platform for designing oceans assets and a $3 million plan to develop seafloor imaging tech for fishing trawlers.

The $1.3 million Virtual Ocean project will include $614,000 of government funding and be led by Victoria, B.C.-based engineering consultancy and

Dalhousie University’s CDL Atlantic, part of the internationally noted Creative Destruction Lab network of startup accelerators, has opened applications for its 2023 cohort, including a general stream, dubbed Prime, and a bluetech stream, Oceans.

The nine-month program, founded by University of Toronto management professor Ajay Agrawal and now with operations in six countries, is milestone-based

Laval, Que.-based Dispersa, which has its research and development operations in Sydney, has raised $3 million of funding split evenly between equity and debt, with the round led by economic development agency Invest Nova Scotia.

Dispersa makes biodegradable surfactants, which are ingredients used in consumer products likes soaps, shampoos and cosmetics to break down oils. Unlike most

Wayne Sumarah, CEO of industry group Digital Nova Scotia, will retire at the end of May after three years on the job.

Sumarah, a marking executive who previously worked in the telecommunications sector, presided over a 50 percent increase in the organization’s membership, along with 136 percent revenue growth and a more than doubling of staff.

“Wayne’s strategic, kind and people-focused

St. John’s-based Mysa Smart Thermostats is donating about $40,000 worth of inventory to non-profit Habitat pour l'humanité Québec, Habitat for Humanity’s Francophone arm, in celebration of Earth Day.

Mysa said in a statement the 300 smart thermostats, which use internet-of-things technology to better manage energy use for heating, will save more than 4,500 kWh hours of electricity every year

French digital technology and defence giant Thales Group is spearing the creation of a new cybersecurity hub at Fredericton’s Knowledge Park under a partnership with economic development agency Ignite and the University of New Brunswick’s digital technology hub, The McKenna Institute, with $8.6 million of federal and provincial funding.

The National Digital Excellence Centre, or NDEC, as Thales