Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to the spring edition of its Investment Day event, which it hosts in collaboration with accelerator Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic.

The event will be held at Volta’s new offices in downtown Halifax’s Armoyan Centre on May 14 and will give 12 seed-stage and Series A companies the chance to pitch to an audience of venture capitalists from

Acuicy, the Halifax-based maker of business intelligence software for emissions reduction, was victorious at the cleantech finals of the Atlantic Canada Cleantech Scale-up and Investment Challenge, a startup competition that aims to develop not just new entrepreneurs, but also new angels.

The company was one of three finalists in the cleantech division, with judging for a parallel, healthtech

About 50 million cubic yards of concrete have now been produced using the technology of Halifax clean concrete star CarbonCure, the company said Wednesday, with 800 systems having been licensed to clients across 35 countries.

The milestone comes as CEO Rob Niven and his team aim to help sequester 500 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually starting by 2030 with the help of their technology for

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A Halifax student athlete hopes to make his laundry subscription service a slam dunk with busy consumers.

Saint Mary’s University basketball player Jayrell Diggs is the founder of SudDrop, which offers to collect dirty laundry from users' homes and return it washed and folded. It was the experience of trying to fit laundry into his hectic schedule that inspired Diggs to launch the business at

Charlottetown drug-maker BIOVECTRA has signed a supply chain partnership deal with a quartet of other life sciences companies as part of a project from NGEN, the federal manufacturing Supercluster.

The project will see BIOVECTRA share supply chain resources with: Toronto's CCRM, which produces regenerative medicine-based technologies and cell and gene

SiftMed, the St. John’s maker of software that helps law offices and insurance companies organize and search jumbled medical records, has won a key cybersecurity certification for its technology.

The company’s software is now officially recognized as SOC 2 compliant, an endorsement from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants related to ensuring that a business’s third-party

Halifax-based Precision BioLogic, one of the oldest life sciences companies in Atlantic Canada, has been acquired by the Swedish private equity firm Procuritas Capital Investors for an undisclosed sum.

The companies issued a statement late last week saying Stockholm-based Procuritas, a mid-market PE fund, had acquired Precision Biologic and its Ancaster, Ont., subsidiary Affinity Biologicals,

ReelData, the Halifax maker of AI for land-based aquaculture, has launched its latest product, ReelWeight, which is a smart camera system for estimating the weight of fish.

The new offering will complement four other products from ReelData that estimate fish’s appetite, stress levels, physical health and biomass. In a social media post, CEO Matt Zimola said ReelWeight took four years to develop.

Invest Nova Scotia has earmarked $60 million to join private sector investment funds as a limited partner, reallocating money that was previously set aside for loans.

In an interview, CEO Peter MacAskill said a maturing startup ecosystem with changing needs is a key reason the agency has transferred the money via a provincial Order in Council. The capital has been shifted from the agency’s