The Nova Scotia government has decided to move almost all the money Innovacorp received from its investment in Dartmouth-based Meta Materials Inc. to the general government coffers.

Entrevestor reported in September that Innovacorp had sold all its

Out of the haze and into the light, Canadians are finally waking from their 50-year psychedelic slumber. 

Once thought to be a lost generation of marmalade skies, the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s has evolved into a modern medical

Stephanie Lipp and Leonedest Gillis entered the Genesis Evolution accelerator in St. John's with plans to sell a mushroom-based nutraceutical product.

When they emerged from the program eight weeks later, they had pivoted to an entirely new

Development group Halifax Partnership has named Patrick Farrar its new Director of Innovation responsible for promoting innovative companies in the city.

“We are thrilled to have Patrick join our team to continue supporting the rapid growth of

St. John’s-based BreatheSuite, whose products help people to use their inhalers properly, has been accepted into the seventh cohort of the prestigious Lazaridis ScaleUp program.

The Lazaridis Institute for the Management of Technology Enterprises,

Granville Biomedical, the St. John’s-based maker of medical testing swabs, has formed a partnership with Toronto’s Inagene Diagnostics to develop a cheek swab for testing patients’ DNA and determining which medications are most compatible with their

St. John’s-based Mysa Smart Thermostat has raised a $20.3 million Series B funding round to scale up its marketing and finance an international expansion.

The deal was led by Cycle Capital Management, a cleantech-focused venture capital fund based

Innovacorp has put out a call for applicants to its GreenShoots funding and mentorship program, which will offer six agtech, biotech or cleantech companies up to $40,000 in grants.

The competition is run by Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia Innovation

The annual Spark Nova Scotia startup competition has awarded five-figure cash prizes to 10 startups, with a strong focus this year on medtech and cleantech innovation.

The 10 companies received a combined $375,000, with the top two bagging $50,000

Halifax’s Densitas has inked a deal with nonprofit RAD-AID International to deploy its intelliMammo AI mammography software at a hospital in Guyana, where the country’s government runs a publicly funded screening program aimed at combatting rising

Swiftsure Innovations, the Pasadena, NL-based startup developing a device for cleaning the mouths and throats of people on ventilators, has raised $1.05 million in an oversubscribed seed round.

The round’s backers included Threshold Impact, Killick

Sonrai Security has closed a US$50 million (C$61.9 million) Series C funding round, meaning the New York- and Fredericton-based cloud security company has now raised US$88 million in less than three years.

Sonrai issued a press release last week