Bluedrop Training and Simulation, a longtime player in the East Coast innovation economy, is receiving a $448,950 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to incorporate AI into its product offerings.

One half of an organization that also includes Bluedrop ISM, or integrated skills management, Bluedrop Training and Simulation sells virtual reality simulators and training programs for

Life Sciences Nova Scotia CEO Doris Grant will take on an additional role following a collaboration agreement between her industry group and Nova Scotia Health.

Grant has been announced as the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub’s new managing director, returning to the organization where she previously spent just over three years as senior director of innovation. Gail Tomblin Murphy, a top civil

Halifax supplements startup Infusd Nutrition has signed a partnership agreement with another, more mature life sciences company nearby in P.E.I., Natures Crops International.

Infusd, the creation of lawyer Jack MacDonald and chemical engineer David Giffin, has developed a process to make fat-soluble nutrients, such as omega-3 fatty acids and many vitamins, water soluble. The company uses the

BIOVECTRA, the Charlottetown drug maker that in 2019 was bought by Miami-based H.I.G. Capital for US$250 million, has reached an agreement to be sold again, this time for US$925 million or C$1.27 billion.

The deal with Santa Clara, California’s Agilent Technologies is expected to close by the end of this year, BIOVECTRA said in a statement. The companies did not disclose the conditions that must

Two alumni of cybersecurity unicorn Verafin have returned to the startup world with an AI tool meant to help business-to-business product teams gather customer feedback, and just months after founding their new business, they have raised about $800,000.

Aucure is the creation of Andrea King, who spent a little over two years at Verafin before becoming NASDAQ’s Director of Media and Government

John Risley’s World Energy GH2 plans to work with Dalhousie University to test a roster of potential replacements for the costly precious metals used in green hydrogen production — with the help of AI.

World Energy earlier this summer received environmental approval to build a four-gigawatt wind farm and 1,200-megawatt hydrogen plant near Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. Project

The University of New Brunswick is looking for applicants to its Saint John-based Axis Sales Accelerator, a 10-week program for business-to-business startups looking to grow their revenues and prepare to raise capital.

The program, which will begin in September and require three to five hours per week from participants, is aimed at positioning the founder of a company as its lead salesperson, as

Six student teams from the University of New Brunswick’s Master of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship program pitched their startup ideas Thursday, with pet-sitting marketplace FURWARD taking home the $1,500 top prize.

The MTME program, managed under the umbrella of UNBs J. Herbert Smith Centre, offers students specialized training in how to commercialize technological innovation. The

Just a month after it raised a funding round led by California’s Kern Venture Group, Halifax medtech startup MIMOSA Diagnostics is heading to Chicago in August to compete in the North American finals of the AI Healthtech Innovation Challenge.

Founded by Dr. Karen Cross, a plastic surgeon, and General Leung, a magnetic resonance researcher at the University of Toronto, MIMOSA has developed

The Ocean Startup Project, a national industry group, has announced the 25 very early-stage companies chosen to participate in its Ocean Idea Challenge, which offers up to $7,000 of funding, as well as training and support services.

The Idea Challenge is a milestone-based accelerator program for entrepreneurs working on customer discovery and product-market fit, and for top-performing companies.