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

After a short, pandemic-induced halt to its activities last spring, Halifax senior-monitoring startup Tenera Care is ramping up its expansion with the help of a new, remote installation procedure for its technology.

Tenera has closed or is in the process of closing deals with care homes in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Arkansas and the United Kingdom, after already adding monitoring for

Halifax-based DMF Medical has received a Class II medical device license from Health Canada to sell its memsorb carbon dioxide filtration device, which has been created to improve safety for patients undergoing general anesthesia.

The company said in a statement the product is now on sale across Canada for use on a range of anasthesia machines.  

Company President David Roach, and Chief Medical

A Halifax ed-tech company is on a mission to help make children better, more thoughtful writers – by helping them create their own newspapers.

Pressto, founded by former magazine publisher Daniel Stedman, is a web app that lets children write and edit a mock newspaper and receive automated feedback on their work from an AI system.

The app, which left beta testing last week and is now available

Halifax-based Outcast Foods has received $100,000 after being named a semi-finalist in the Government of Canada's Food Waste Reduction Challenge. Twelve finalists will receive $400,000 and two winners will each receive $1,500,000. 

Outcast has been growing rapidly and recently closed a $10 million funding round, half of which came from District Ventures Capital, the fund led by Arlene Dickinson

Our Jobs of the Week column today features 10 different postings by Halifax-based social media monitoring company Dash Hudson, which is seeking executives in Halifax, New York and Los Angeles.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for clients to manage,

With its user experience dialed-in, Halifax advertising startup Picture Pick has begun marketing itself to potential ad-buyers and bagged a deal with entertainment giant NBCUniversal Media.

Picture Pick’s app gamefies advertising by encouraging players to choose their favourite images or ads from a collection of 60 and then holding sweepstakes that award cash prizes to the people who choose the

The federally backed Sustainable Development Technology Canada foundation is expanding its cleantech Seed Fund by distributing grants to 21 new companies, including five with ties to Atlantic Canada.

The Seed Fund is now in its second year and has given grants of between $50,000 and $100,000 to 75 companies, with 52 startup accelerators acting as funding distribution partners.

STDC is funded by

Halifax startup incubator Volta has announced the creation of a new, year-long accelerator for AI startups focused on supply chains, with up to $14,000 of funding per company on offer.

The program, Volta AI, is the result of a partnership with Scale AI -- the federally backed supercluster that funds research partnerships using the same model as Canada’s Ocean Supercluser. To participate,

In the wake of launching a new, integrated version of its AI-based mammography software, Halifax’s Densitas has inked deals with the governments of New Brunswick, P.E.I. and Nova Scotia to roll out its technology in provincial hospitals and clinics.

The intelliMammo platform consolidates three previous software offerings from Densitas that measured patients’ breast density, assessed future