Innovacorp, the venture capital and innovation agency owned by the Nova Scotia government, sank $5.6 million into startups in its 2016-17 fiscal year, continuing at the same pace as the previous three years.

The agency released the numbers last week in its annual accountability report, which outlines its finances and investments in the 12 months that ended March 31.

Last year at this time,

Weeks after its relaunch, Code + Mortar of Halifax is building up its development team and looking for a senior developer.

Code + Mortar headlines the Job of the Week column this week, having been in the news in June when it changed its name from Norex.

Code + Mortar aims to work with clients on innovation, helping them conceive new products, build them, and take them to market. One interesting

As it begins its pilot project in New Brunswick, SomaDetect has been validating the international demand for its product. The Fredericton AgTech company recently signed letters of intent with three-quarters of the 80 farmers it met with during a recent jaunt to Vermont.

Working with the Saint John sales-focused consultancy Momentum, SomaDetect CEO Bethany Deshpande made a four-day road trip to

Each of the ship captains currently in Halifax for the Tall Ships Regatta will take home a box full of Nova Scotia-themed treasures along with their memories. The Nova Boxes are being provided by Nova Box creator Allyson England, who established her e-commerce gift-giving business in less than a year.

The seven items in each box include: a driftwood frame by Saltwreck; Maud Lewis coasters from

Dane Creek Capital Corp. this week agreed to buy pet-related assets of Dartmouth-based Nature’s Way Canada in its latest step in building up a Nova Scotia-based portfolio of sustainable pet food products.

Dane Creek is a Mississauga, Ont.-based merchant bank specializing in pet-related businesses, and in the last nine months it has done three deals in Nova Scotia.

As a result, it has

The fifth annual Big Data Congress, to be held in Halifax in November, will feature something that none of the previous four have – a focus on specific sectors.

Alternating between Saint John and Halifax, the Congress is an annual celebration of data analytics, and its goal is to help traditional businesses, government and organizations understand how Big Data can assist them. The theme this

The government of Newfoundland and Labrador is replacing its Research & Development Corporation with a new body called InnovateNL, whose first chair is Killick Capital President Mark Dobbin.

In a statement last week, the government said the creation of InnovateNL is the next step in its plan to foster greater innovation and accelerating business growth in the province. InnovateNL will fall under

Last Friday, Halifax’s Trip Ninja integrated its travel-planning platform with Galileo, a computer reservations system owned by the international travel service company TravelPort.

It was one more step in a three-year process in an entrepreneurial journey that began when co-founder Andres Collart tried booking a trip to several European cities and learned of the difficulties in doing so. Since

Moncton-based RtTech Software announced last week that its Cipher platform has received a major certification for interoperability in the industrial automation space.

The Industrial Internet of Things company, whose products help industrial companies reduce their energy consumption, announced that the OPC Foundation has certified its Cipher Embedded OPC UA Linux Connector.

OPC is the

Dash Hudson continues to grow its staff, and its opening for a Sales Development Representative in Halifax is the focus of this edition of Job of the Week.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson has created a “visual intelligence platform” that helps its corporate clients to create and distribute photos and video, then analyze their impact. The system is an integrated solution to predict, measure, and