Halifax’s Bright has raised a $1.45 million round of funding led by Halifax’s Tidal Venture Partners, building on traction from the spring and summer, CEO David Howe said in an interview.

Along with Tidal, Halifax’s Concrete Ventures and provincial venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp — now being amalgamated with Nova Scotia Business Inc. to form Invest Nova Scotia — also participated.

The Atlantic Venture Forum, or AVF, has announced 22 showcase companies that will be highlighted at the event.

The AVF will be held Sept. 13 and 14 at the Halifax Marriot Harbourfront Hotel, marking the first in-person iteration of the event since the beginning of the pandemic.

The forum is organized by Calgary-based Critical Path Group, which describes itself as an “events, advisory and

Dalhousie University will hold a demo day for the third cohort of its Ready2Launch accelerator September 22.

The three-month program for technology-based ventures was held virtually this year and wrapped up Aug. 26. It was open to undergraduate, graduate and PhD students, as well as postdoctoral fellows.

Ready2Launch teaches customer discovery skills and helps coach participants through the

Halifax payment processing specialist B4Checkin's TransForm technology will be incorporated into Ontario-based Maestro PMS’s property management software for hotels.

B4Checkin, which does business as b4, sells browser-based software to process credit-card payments by eliminating the need for clerks to enter credit card information manually and immediately encrypting the data.

The company says

Rally, the St. John’s maker of process automation software for law firms, is incorporating technology from San Francisco artificial intelligence non-profit OpenAI into its software platform to help lawyers draft contracts.

Spellbook is Rally’s new tool for auto-generating contract clauses using OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model, which is capable of writing prose largely indistinguishable from that

We’re delighted to announce that our second annual Entrevestor Live event will be held on the afternoon of Oct. 20, and it will be hybrid so you can attend live or online.

Showcasing some of the most successful startups in the region, we launched Entrevestor Live last year as a virtual event. This year, we are partnering with Volta, so anyone in Halifax on Oct. 20 can join us for the live event

A Halifax-based network that tracks ocean health has received almost $39 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The money will help with tracking important aquatic species impacted by climate change.

The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN), based at Dalhousie University, is a global aquatic research, data management and partnership platform. In a statement, the group said

The second annual session of The Spark: Igniting Conversations series will focus on growing entrepreneurship in the African Nova Scotian community, introducing new entrepreneurs to seasoned ones to share how to build successful businesses.

Organizers invite anyone who’s interested in supporting or working with Black businesses to attend and begin building relationships. For those looking to

Nova Scotia life sciences industry group BioNova has chosen eight semi-finalists for its annual BioInnovation Challenge, with $55,000 of funding and in-kind services up for grabs.

Now in its twelfth year, the pitching competition will be held during BioPort Atlantic — the annual conference for life sciences and biotech in Atlantic Canada — on Nov. 2 and 3. The finals are being held in-person

Three early-stage New Brunswick startups have entered the Venn Garage incubator program, after being selected from the open pitch competition in July.

As a resident Garage startup, the new companies will receive a hotdesk at the Junction, Venn’s new tech-focused innovation hub in Moncton. They will also be offered workshops and coaching sessions, resources and networks, as well as support with