Digital Nova Scotia last week honoured members of the province’s tech community with its Tech Forward Awards, recognizing diverse contributors and contributions to the province's ecosystem.

The winners are:

Diversity and Inclusion Award: MOC BioTechnologies

“MOC BioTechnologies has made significant strides in fostering diversity and inclusion in Nova Scotia’s tech sector. Their inclusive

Finalists have been announced for the third annual InnovateNB Awards, which recognizes innovators from all sectors of the province’s economy.

Winners will be revealed at the awards event to be held November 13 at the Delta Beausejour in Moncton. InnovateNB is organized by TechImpact, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, the McKenna Institute at the University of New Brunswick, Propel and

St. John’s-based Sparrow BioAcoustics is celebrating Health Canada’s approval of Stethophone, an AI-powered app that allows users to capture and analyze heart sounds using a smartphone.

Designed for both healthcare professionals and personal use, Stethophone helps detect structural and rhythmic heart anomalies. The company is aiming to build the world’s biggest databank of cardiological

With her own business on ice after seven years of operations, entrepreneur Tracy Bell is able to bring a lot of empathy to her new role as executive director of the Wallace McCain Institute, which aims to help business owners and entrepreneurial leaders throughout Atlantic Canada grow bigger, faster. 

Bell, a co-founder of Saint John-based Millennia TEA, a startup that imported frozen tea from

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL-Atlantic) and Volta are holding an investment day that will showcase high-potential, early-stage startups building innovative solutions in the region.

Founders will pitch their companies to a curated audience of active investors, ecosystem leaders and the tech community, organizers said in a press release.

There will be no prizes or judging, just straight pitches

Well-known entrepreneur Tracy Bell is joining UNB Saint John-based Wallace McCain Institute as Executive Director, taking up her role over the next few weeks.

Bell who is from Rothesay, NB, first joined the institute in 2019 as a member of its Entrepreneurial Leaders Program, the institute said in a press release.

Bell co-founded a startup called Millennia TEA in 2017 and led that company until

Collide, an initiative that provides entrepreneurship programming for students, is being rolled out across Atlantic Canada following a year-long pilot project. 

Collide was developed at Dalhousie University to mirror the national research commercialization accelerator Lab2Market which is designed for graduate students and faculty looking to commercialize their research.

Similarly, Collide

Spellbook, the St. John’s legal software-maker that earlier this year raised US$20 million, has announced it has integrated content from Thomson Reuters Practical Law to allow clients to leverage the capabilities of both platforms.

Users now have access to thousands of Practical Law’s attorney-editor created standard documents and clauses directly within Spellbook’s AI-powered contract drafting

With its first NOVAC holographic display table in operation, Avalon Holographics of St. John’s is preparing to ramp up sales in the coming year and deploy working models to the U.S.

The company, which can legitimately claim to be a global leader in holographic display technology, received a $1.02 million grant from the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Industry, Energy and Technology in

Invest Nova Scotia has recovered almost all the $573,000 stolen from it in a phishing scam this past spring, the economic development agency said Friday.

In July, the economic development agency said an imposter posing as a venture capital executive stole the money, which was intended for the investment group Sandpiper Ventures. The theft was the work of a hacker using a Russian VPN.

On Friday,