Ellen Farrell, the Saint Mary’s University professor who has been one of the key architects behind the Sobey School of Business’s entrepreneurship programming, is commercializing a new software product aimed at helping women founders perform better

Sustane Technologies has received a $950,000 funding package from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and used it to develop a system for converting plastic waste into naphtha — one of the constituents of gasoline and jet fuel, though the

A phishing scam that led to Invest Nova Scotia sending $573,000 to an imposter posing as a venture capital executive will not impact startups, the provincial economic development corporation said Monday.

First reported by The Halifax Examiner and

The Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub and QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation are looking for applicants to their Innovation Den pitch competition, which offers companies up to $100,000 to bring new medical technologies to market.

The event,

When Marcel Gaier commutes to work these days, he often travels via a ferry treated with his own company’s environmentally friendly hull coating.

Gaier is the chief technology officer for GIT Coatings, previously Graphite Innovation and

Bluedrop Training and Simulation, a longtime player in the East Coast innovation economy, is receiving a $448,950 loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to incorporate AI into its product offerings.

One half of an organization that also

Provincial economic development agency Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to the next cohort of its GreenShoots accelerator, which offers up to $40,000 of funding.

GreenShoots offers agtech, biotech and cleantech companies funding and

Life Sciences Nova Scotia CEO Doris Grant will take on an additional role following a collaboration agreement between her industry group and Nova Scotia Health.

Grant has been announced as the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub’s new managing

Halifax supplements startup Infusd Nutrition has signed a partnership agreement with another, more mature life sciences company nearby in P.E.I., Natures Crops International.

Infusd, the creation of lawyer Jack MacDonald and chemical engineer David

BIOVECTRA, the Charlottetown drug maker that in 2019 was bought by Miami-based H.I.G. Capital for US$250 million, has reached an agreement to be sold again, this time for US$925 million or C$1.27 billion.

The deal with Santa Clara, California’s

Two alumni of cybersecurity unicorn Verafin have returned to the startup world with an AI tool meant to help business-to-business product teams gather customer feedback, and just months after founding their new business, they have raised about

John Risley’s World Energy GH2 plans to work with Dalhousie University to test a roster of potential replacements for the costly precious metals used in green hydrogen production — with the help of AI.

World Energy earlier this summer received