Invest Nova Scotia has announced payroll rebate agreements for two Halifax startups: medical scheduling platform Virtual Hallway and oceans data specialists Global Spatial Technology Solutions, or GSTS.

Payroll rebate agreements are the process by which a government subsidizes some of a business’s payroll costs to incentivize job creation. In this case, Virtual Hallway could receive as much

Halifax-based personal chef service Easy Platter has joined the Seattle cohort of the prestigious TechStars accelerator, as it looks to cement its market position in Halifax, Vancouver and now Toronto.

Founded by CEO Mandhir Singh in 2020, Easy Platter matches customers with personal chefs to come to their homes and cook a supply of meals for them. The chefs’ cooking abilities are vetted by Easy

The Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University, which offers a broad suite of programming for aspiring startup founders, has opened its new Sobeys Inspiration Hub — a four-storey, 43,000-square-foot facility meant to act as a nexus between the academic and business communities, with facilities for prototyping and research.

The building was funded with the help of $5 million from the

Today, we're announcing the full lineup for the 2023 edition of Entrevestor Live, which we believe is the greatest single showcase ever for innovation in the region. 

This conference highlighting the biggest and best innovation-driven companies in Atlantic Canada will take place on the afternoon of Nov. 14 at the new headquarters of Tribe Network in downtown Halifax. Space to attend in person is

At the InnovateNB reception Thursday night, NBIF Chief Executive Jeff White said his agency will provide capital to three groups in Atlantic Canada and three outside the region. The goal of the new

With conflict of interest allegations leading Sustainable Development Technology Canada to temporarily halt new funding anouncements, East Coast cleantech founders are likely to be less affected than those elsewhere in the country because they were not receiving anywhere near as much funding from the federally backed, arms-length foundation to begin with.

SDTC's funding disclosures detail grants

Atlantic Canadian venture capital firm Sandpiper Ventures, which specializes in backing female-owned businesses, is one of five organizations nationally to receive a combined $25 million from the federal government via BDC and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.

Managing partner Rhiannon Davies said in an interview the money will go towards a second fund that Sandpiper is

Economic development agency Halifax Partnership is celebrating receiving four international awards.

They are three gold and one silver 2023 Excellence in Economic Development Awards from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC).

First, Halifax Partnership’s best-in-class economic development strategies and initiatives received a gold award for Economic Development Organization of

Halifax’s KorrAI, which uses artificial intelligence to help assess satellite images of infrastructure and mining sites, has launched a new, free software platform for assessing ground movement in population centres, which can indicate risks like flooding and infrastructure damage.

Dubbed the Open Ground Motion Service — “open” in the context of software meaning freely accessible — the platform

Halifax-based Frenter, which sells asset-management and geofencing software for heavy equipment, is joining the Alberta chapter of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup funding group Plug and Play’s accelerator program, batch 4.

Frenter is one of 18 startups joining the fourth cohort of the accelerator’s sustainability stream, which is backed by major industry players like Suncor and Shell Canada.