Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp is launching a revamped version of its Accelerate program, which will replace both the old, longer program of the same name and the shorter Sprint accelerator.

Accelerate will be completely virtual and focus on oceantech, medtech, agtech and cleantech. The program is meant for companies that have established a market opportunity.

St. John’s-based disinfectant maker Polyamyna Nanotech has inked a deal with Eastern Health to run clinical trials of its product once it receives Health Canada approval.

Polyamyna, which graduated from the Genesis Evolution program in January, says its disinfectant has been proven by third-party testing to kill antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, sometimes called “superbugs.” It can be used to

A fledgling company that allows individuals to rent and hire personal items like sports equipment has won a pitching contest run by innovation hub Volta.

Halifax-based frenter soft launched on April 5th.  Fifteen-year-old Zachary Laberge, the venture’s Founder, said the company already has 40 users. Frenter is about to launch its #takebacksummer campaign which will help people celebrate the

With COVID-19 making the hiring process more complex than ever, a Riverview, N.B. company has developed a solution to help automate the process of finding and attracting job seekers.

Brad DiPaolo is the founder of CandidateHub.io, which lets employers peer into the “hidden talent market” -- people who are eyeing a potential employer, but haven’t formally reached out. The software is being

St. John’s-based TriNav Marine Design has won a $500,000 prize from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Hull Design Efficiency Challenge.

Founded in the 1990s, TriNav is a consulting firm with offices in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. The company sells services ranging from boat design tweaks to full engineering. It is part of the TriNav Group of Companies.

TriNav’s winning design for a

Industry group Atlantic FinTech will participate in the 2021 Payments Canada Summit, Canada’s largest payments conference, along with two Moncton-area companies that are members of the group. 

The association will be joined by purchase-to–payment software platform SnapAP and WeyMedia, a company that runs creditcardGenius, a credit card matchmaker that compares features of Canadian and American

For a Fredericton life sciences company dating back more than two decades, the pandemic has offered an opportunity to reinvigorate its business and venture into the lucrative world of diagnostic medical testing.

LuminUltra was already an innovation success story. Since its founding in 2003, based on technology that had been in development since 1995, LuminUltra has carved out a market for itself

Dartmouth-based drug discovery company IMV has announced that its lead compound, known as maveropepimut-S, will be trialed in patients with hormone receptor positive/HER2-negative breast cancer.

In a statement, the company said these tumors represent an unmet clinical need with relatively poor responses to preliminary hormonal treatment. The investigator-initiated clinical study will be

Halifax-based Audioptics Medical, whose device can see through eardrums to study the middle ear, has received a $492,000 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and a $240,000 grant from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program.

Audioptics has developed a system that can visualize and measure the structures of the middle ear through an intact

Ali Ghorbani has launched a new company, and not surprisingly it is focused on cybersecurity.

An academic, researcher and serial entrepreneur, Ghorbani is the Director of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity in Fredericton, and his new company is Cydarien, whose product tests software for security vulnerability.

Cydarien, whose product is now in the market, helps software developers test