Halifax medical device-maker Hollo’s $50,000 win at the QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation’s Innovation Den awards comes as the company makes strides towards commercialization, according to CEO Sara Fedullo, including signing a letter of intent with a global distributor.

Hollo, which is developing an improved spacer for asthma inhalers, was one of six finalists to pitch. Fedullo co-founded

Transport Canada is looking to spend $22.5 million to fund research and development work on low-emission marine propulsion systems over the next five years.

The Clean Vessel Demonstration Stream of the federal agency’s Green Shipping Corridor Program, announced Friday, will offer grants for research, engineering and feasibility studies; safety assessments for pilot projects; and the development

Startup Genome, the Silicon Valley group that ranks innovation ecosystems, has released its combined report on cleantech and bluetech ecosystems, building on last year’s bluetech list, with Atlantic Canada improving its showing from 10th to eighth in the oceans rankings.

The report is officially being launched at the COP28 climate conference on Dec. 2, but has been made available online ahead of

With several large Canadian clients, Four Eyes Financial is turning its sights to the United States market, with the Saint John maker of regulatory compliance software for wealth management businesses planning a roughly two-year expansion push.

Founded by CEO Lori Weir and CTO Kendall McMenamon in 2015, Four Eyes sells its software to back office firms like Winnipeg-based Wellington-Altus

The Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences, a national industry group led by the P.E.I. BioAlliance and headquartered in its Charlottetown biomanufacturing incubator, is launching a national upskilling program for biomanufacturing, along with a training facility in Montreal.

The upskilling initiative, called CASTL Elevate, is the first in a planned series of programs offered

Dartmouth pharmaceuticals company Sona Nanotech has raised money via a private placement share sale for the second time this year, capitalizing on recent increases in its stock price.

In a statement Monday, Sona, which trades on the Canadian Securities Exchange, said it had sold an additional 3.75 million shares to raise $750,000. The deal comes in the wake of a similar $1.1 million share

Invest Nova Scotia has announced the nine medtech companies participating in the 2023-2024 cohort of Scale-up Hub: Cambridge, its cross-border business development accelerator.

The nine-month program is funded mainly by the Atlantic Trade and Investment Growth Strategy — a joint initiative between the federal government and the four Atlantic provinces that plans to spend $20 million by 2027.

Provincial economic development agency Invest Nova Scotia has revealed the companies in its seventh GreenShoots cohort, each of which is receiving at least $10,000 of funding, with two receiving the maximum outlay of $40,000.

GreenShoots offers agtech, biotech and cleantech companies funding and mentorship to develop their ideas. Cleantech made a particularly strong showing this time, with all

Fredericton economic development agency and entrepreneurship hub Ignite has been honoured by International Economic Development Council for its programming for women and immigrant startup founders, receiving an award for excellence in economic development in the Economic Equity and Inclusion category.

Based in Washington, D.C., the non-profit International Economic Development Council, or IEDC,

Halifax-based Dispension Industries, which launched as a seller of smart kiosks for dispensing controlled substances as part of harm reduction programs, is diversifying into alcohol sales, starting with sports arenas.

Chief executive Corey Yantha, who founded Dispension in 2017, said in an interview the move does not represent a pivot, but rather a long-planned expansion of the company’s