Halifax-based Tribe Network’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program for African Nova Scotian youth will now be counted as a Personal Development half credit by the province’s education system.

During the last school year, the program engaged more than 80 African Nova Scotian students across various high schools, introducing them to entrepreneurship, business ownership, financial literacy,

ResearchNB has joined the InnovateNB Awards as a core partner ahead of the fifth annual event, scheduled for Nov. 26 at the Fredericton Convention Centre.

ResearchNB joins TechImpact, NBIF, the McKenna Institute at UNB and Propel as presenting partners of the awards, which recognize people, companies and organizations involved in digital adoption and innovation in New Brunswick.

“ResearchNB

Halifax-based AI company SyncraSys has closed an oversubscribed seed financing round that exceeded its fundraising target by 30 percent.

The company is developing an artificial intelligence platform for physical security operations and is nearing completion of its first proof of concept.

SyncraSys announced the funding round in a press release on Tuesday but did not reveal the amount it had

Halifax-based Sona Nanotech Inc. has raised $2.53 million through an oversubscribed private placement to fund further development of its Targeted Hyperthermia Therapy oncology treatment.

The company, whose shares trade on the Canadian Securites Exchange, announced Aug. 10 that it had closed the financing with the issuance of 8,423,372 common shares at 30 cents per share. Sona had originally

Galaxia has closed an oversubscribed $4.5 million funding round to support the expansion of its satellite technology and space infrastructure business.

The Halifax-based company said in a press release Thursday the financing was co-led by Montreal-based Amiral Ventures and Invest Nova Scotia. Other investors included Reaction Dynamics and Anges Québec.

Galaxia said the capital will be used to

Dalhousie University’s Linh Tran has won the 2026 Falling Walls Lab Atlantic Canada pitch competition for research aimed at improving diagnostic testing with smaller blood samples.

Tran, a master’s candidate in biomedical engineering, won the competition Monday at Halifax Central Library with a three-minute presentation titled “Breaking the Wall of Sample Volume: Big Diagnostics from Tiny

Dal Innovates will hold its annual Demo Day on Oct. 6, featuring teams from across the country that have participated in the AI2Market, Campus2Market and Lab2Market programs.

The event will be held at the Joseph Strug Concert Hall on the Dalhousie University campus, beginning at noon. The pitches begin at 1:30 p.m.

The participants have completed the Launch stream of three programs offered

Dryve Battery Materials has been selected for a Canadian government program designed to help the Dartmouth-based company develop business opportunities in Sweden’s growing battery industry.

The company, which is developing a process for manufacturing cathode active materials, will participate in the Sweden Battery Value Chain Special Edition Canadian Technology Accelerator 2026-27, delivered by

On a cold Tuesday morning in February, Travis McDonough sits at the front of a packed conference room in the Halifax Convention Centre, listening intently. He's been invited to the WHEN (Women's Health Equity Now) Movement, an initiative launched by the IWK Foundation to transform healthcare for women+ across the Maritimes and Canada.

McDonough is confident that Wellnify, his new wellness tech

Halifax-based Virtual Hallway has launched Asklepius, an artificial intelligence tool designed to help Canadian clinicians find evidence-based answers to clinical questions.

The company said Asklepius combines AI with information from Canadian clinical sources, including more than 500 clinical guidelines, provincial formularies, Health Canada drug monographs and drug information from the