SiftMed, the St. John’s maker of software that helps law offices and insurance companies organize and search jumbled medical records, has been named Startup of the Year by techNL in the wake of securing its first paying clients.

SiftMed earlier this year raised a $2.7 million seed round led by Halifax-based Sandpiper Ventures, and CEO Holly Hill said in an interview Monday her team has used the

The Halifax Innovation Outpost, an initiative of the Halifax Partnership, is offering up to $5,000 for startups to pilot or test circular economy technologies for the food industry, but applications are due by Nov. 13.

The Circular Food Solution Challenge is being hosted by the Partnership in collaboration with the National Zero Waste Council, which is a public sector and industry group led by

A new Halifax-based startup is aiming to improve the process of assessing heart murmurs in children, and is hoping to have its Software-as-a-Service product in the market in 2025.

KardioDiagnostix, one of the companies named to Invest Nova Scotia’s Accelerate program this month, is developing an artificial intelligence system to help doctors assess whether a cardiac murmur is caused by a heart

Charlottetown-based life sciences company AffinityImmuno has met with good results in preclinical trials for an antiviral compound that shows promise against COVID-19, with infected mice seeing as much as an 81 percent reduction in the amount of virus in their lungs within four days.

The animal trials began in 2021 under a partnership with the Robarts Research Institute at Western University in

Halifax-based Marine Thinking, which sells tracking and navigation software and hardware for marine environments, is launching commercial trials of its tagging system for preventing lost fishing equipment, known in the industry as ghost gear.

The trials represent the next stage of a research and development project backed by Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Ghost Gear Fund. Marine Thinking is

Saint Mary’s University has launched a new diversity, equity and inclusion program for student entrepreneurs via its Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre.

The Entrepreneurship Inclusion Initiative, funded with $200,000 from TD Bank, will have three components: a 10-week training program for young founders, a one day boot camp and periodic inclusion-focused community events.

The 10-week

St. John’s-based PolyUnity Tech, which uses agile manufacturing to make products rapidly for hospitals, has been named the CAN Health Network’s Company of the Year, which it hopes will help attract investors and clients.

PolyUnity works with hospitals – mainly in Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario, so far – to understand products they need quickly, then manufactures those products to suit the

Two central players in the Atlantic Canadian startup ecosystem are taking home some award hardware this week: TechImpact CEO Cathy Simpson and the Verschuren Centre bioprocessing hub in Cape Breton.

International industry group the Women’s Executive Network, which is headquartered in Toronto, has named Simpson as one of its Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canadian business. And the Verschuren

Foundry, the Massachusetts-based owner of Halifax’s LeadSift, will host an artificial intelligence-focused hackathon at Dalhousie University Nov. 12 alongside Halifax startup hub Volta.

The day-long hackathon will invite coders to develop a new piece of software employing technology from OpenAI or another large language model. Participants will be provided with an API key for OpenAI’s GPT Turbo

Invest Nova Scotia has announced the 12 companies joining the second 2023 cohort of its Accelerate startup program.

Now in its third year, Accelerate offers participating startups four months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding. It is completely virtual and aimed at companies that have already established market opportunities for products based on science or