The annual Spark Nova Scotia startup competition, which offers companies up to $50,000 of non-dilutive funding, has announced the winners for two of its three regional categories: Nova Scotia Southwest and Nova Scotia North. The Cape Breton division has been deferred until Spring.

Now in its ninth year, the Spark program aims to nurture Nova Scotian startups based outside of metro Halifax. The

St. John’s-based ReportMate, which sells software for cleaning up disorganized medical records, has rebranded as SiftMed as it enters commercialization.

The newly dubbed SiftMed’s artificial intelligence platform automatically organizes medical records into a clearly labelled, searchable database for use by insurance company employees as they assess some types of claims, such as accident-related

Dalhousie University’s Emera IdeaHUB has announced the latest cohort of its BUILD accelerator, with artificial intelligence playing a role in the underlying technology behind at least four of the 10 companies.

BUILD, previously called Design2Build, is a 10-month accelerator meant to help deep tech entrepreneurs develop and manufacture their products.

The program is split into three modules. The

CoLab Software, the St. John’s-based maker of collaboration software for 3D modelling, has been accepted into the Lazaridis Institute’s prestigious ScaleUp program for growth-stage companies in the wake of its best quarter ever.

Chief Executive Adam Keating said in an email that CoLab’s recently ended third quarter saw the company more than double its revenue compared to its previous best

Sherbrooke, Quebec-based Oneka Water Technologies, which received a $1 million investment from Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp in 2021, has won the Innovation Award at the International Desalination Association Conference.

Held in Sydney, Australia, the conference is the flagship event of the International Desalination Association, or IDA — a United Nations recognized

Honolulu, Hawaii has become the fourth city to sign on to New York- and Halifax-based edtech startup Pressto’s Junior Journalist Program, aimed at helping youths develop media literacy, as the company readies a new product offering for school classrooms.

Pressto, founded by former magazine publisher Daniel Stedman, is a web app that lets children write and edit a mock newspaper and receive

We have posted articles recognizing and thanking many people who supported Entrevestor Live, which was held Thursday at Volta. But there were a few people working behind the scenes that deserve our sincere thanks.

Entrevestor Live was a showcase for some of the hottest startups in the region. Hosted by Propel CEO Kathryn Lockhart, it featured a range of speakers from founders to investors to

Moncton startup hub Venn Innovation’s Atlantic Fintech initiative has announced the Atlantic Canadian companies attending the Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas this week.

The delegation is being backed by the governments of the four Atlantic Provinces via their Atlantic Trade and Investment Growth Strategy, and will include eight fintech startups.

Venn said in a press release that the purpose

Nicole LeBlanc, the former chair of Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp, has moved to Japan to become a partner at the Toyota Motor Company’s US$800 million or C$1.09 billion Woven Capital investment fund.

Located in Tokyo, Woven Capital is part of Woven Planet, a Toyota subsidiary focused on smart cities and novel transportation systems. The New Brunswick-born LeBlanc

Entrepreneurs and investors gathered at Halifax startup hub Volta Thursday for the second annual Entrevestor Live conference, which was held in-person for the first time.

The three-hour event gave startup founders like Shoelace Learning CEO Julia Rivard Dexter and Milk Moovement Co-founder Robert Forsythe, along with investors like Sandpiper Ventures Founding and Managing Partner Rhiannon Davies