The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship and Thales Canada have announced the winners of their Digital Dockyard naval innovation challenge: St. John’s-based CORSphere and Toronto’s Datifex.

CORSphere sells marine fleet management software, including digital twin technology, under the leadership of CEO M. Sazied Hassan. Datifex, helmed by CEO Chris Erickson and with

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE, will host its annual Demo Day on Wednesday, with bluetech companies demonstrating their innovations off the facility’s dock.

The event will include 17 exhibiting companies from as far away as British Columbia and Denmark, and COVE said in a statement it expects about 400 private sector and government decision-makers

Halifax-based fintech company QuickFacts, which helps insurance brokers compare quotes from insurers, has closed a $1.13 million funding round as it starts to expand in Western Canada.

The company has been on a roll in the past few months as it won the $25,000 Gerry Pond Award from Propel for success in sales, and graduated from the Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic stream. And in May, the

Halifax Partnership and Volta announced Friday a joint program to support Nova Scotian cleantech companies at all stages of growth.

This partnership will give selected startups access to the Volta residency program and tailored support to help them thrive, they said in a statement.

The two organizations plan to work hand-in-hand to provide a comprehensive support system. The startups will

Memorial University and the Ocean Startup Project are calling for applications to their Lab2Market Oceans accelerator.

The program, part of a national group of accelerators, is aimed at helping academic researchers in the oceans space commercialize their work. It will run for 16 weeks, eight of which will be full time. Participants will also receive $15,000 of funding, as well as mentorship in

CoLab Software, the St. John’s maker of collaboration software for 3D modelling, is seeing early success from its sales deal with automotive giant Ford.

The carmaker uses CoLab’s system in its Ford Pro department, which makes fleet management software and hardware.

Ford Pro gives fleet operators the ability to track metrics like electric vehicle charging and driver behaviour. CoLab chief

Just in time for World Oceans Day, Sidney, B.C.-based Cascadia Seaweed is launching its first agricultural product — a kelp-based fertilizer dubbed ReFeed Seaweed Extract and released under a partnership with innovation hub ReFeed Canada.

The seaweed extract is a liquid plant food made from cultivated, cold-water kelp. Cascadia said in a statement it contains essential nutrients for plant growth

Five months after it hired a new chief executive, Fredericton- and Miami-based artificial intelligence star Introhive also has a new chief financial officer.

Freshly minted CFO Saeideh Fard is a software-as-a-service veteran who most recently served as senior vice-president of finance at Toronto’s PointClickShare, a healthtech software-maker that ranks among North America’s largest privately

St. John’s-based Sparrow BioAcoustics has won United States Food and Drug Administration approval for its smartphone stethoscope app.

The app uses a phone’s internal microphones, along with software processing, to allow the device to function as an ad hoc stethoscope when it is held against a patient’s chest.

Trials were conducted at Newfoundland’s Eastern Health Medical Centre, where 70

After successful medical trials in India, Halifax's NeoCare is aiming to recreate the promising results in Canada as it looks to secure regulatory approval and close a $750,000 funding round.

NeoCare’s flagship product is SAMIRA — a system that uses light shone through a newborn’s thumb to test for jaundice, anemia and hypoxia, all of which are leading causes of infant mortality globally.