David Hodgson, CEO and Co-founder of Halifax-based Hollo Medical, has won the 2023 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards, or GSEA, beating out almost 1,100 entrepreneurs from all over the world.

Hodgson claimed the US$50,000 (C$66,000) first prize at an event in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday. His medtech company, which aims to reduce the size of children’s inhalers, has been one of the most

Gaming software company Swarmio Media Holdings,  which has received about $5.7 million in funding from government agencies, has filed for creditor protection.

The IT company, which has had operations in Sydney and Halifax and is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange, developed a platform that reduces the latencies between data centres, which reduces the time lag of gamers playing one

Lunch and Learn, a virtual connector event for women entrepreneurs, will take place on Thursday. Hosted by ONSIDE, a community accelerator program in Nova Scotia, the event aims to help entrepreneurs of underrepresented groups network.

The organizers hope participants can foster meaningful and informative connections with other female entrepreneurs. The speakers at the event include:

• Nicole

St. John’s legal software startup Spellbook is launching a program to make its artificial intelligence system for contract drafting free to law students as the company looks to dramatically scale up its operation and consolidate triple-digit quarterly revenue growth.

Chief executive Scott Stevenson said in an interview that the student access initiative is in response to requests from professors

Industry group Digital Nova Scotia is seeking nominations for this year’s Tech Forward Awards, which honour social and business pioneers in the technology sector.

With winners in eight categories, the awards ceremony will be held Nov. 9 at the Halifax Marriot Harbourfront. People can self-nominate, or be nominated by their employers or industry peers. Digital Nova Scotia is particularly looking

Dalhousie University’s Ocean Alk-align research program, which is studying how to make the world’s oceans more alkaline, has received almost $15 million from the Carbon to Sea Initiative.

Katja Fennel, an oceanographer with Dalhousie, will lead a team of international researchers in the five-year study into reversing ocean acidification. Oceans are becoming more acidic, which is reducing their

NATO's new Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, for which Halifax is bidding to be the North American host city, is seeking applicants for a trio of innovation challenges for sensor and surveillance tech, secure communications and energy resilience.

Called DIANA for short, the accelerator is meant to promote cooperation between the defence sector and the startup economy.

Dal Innovates, the multi-tiered innovation program at Dalhousie University, is a global finalist for the Triple E Awards, which recognize the most entrepreneurial universities in the world.

Dal is one of 24 university entrepreneurship programs that will compete in the finals next week in Barcelona. The finalists include two other Canadian universities: McGill and Wilfrid Laurier.

The Triple E

Nova Scotia Health’s Innovation Hub is dipping its toe into the startup support ecosystem with a new co-working space for healthtech and medtech startups, along with a Network of Innovators that will offer funding and training services.

The Innovation Hub was created by the provincial government in an attempt to bring high-tech solutions to bear on Nova Scotia’s faltering healthcare system. The

Dalhousie University researchers are launching an $850,000 project to increase regional and international health security by monitoring emerging pox viruses in Nova Scotia populations. 

In response to recent outbreaks of the MPOX virus (formerly known as monkeypox), the project will provide a comprehensive map of these viruses in central Africa and Nova Scotia. The information and data collected