Halifax medical testing startup Myomar Molecular is conducting the first beta tests of its product as it nears the close of a $1 million funding round, with $900,000 committed.

Founder Rafaela Andrade said in an interview the testing began in

Dalhousie University is looking for applicants to its Lab2Market Discover program, the precursor program to the school’s Lab2Market Validate accelerator, with two format options: a three-day intensive program and a less condensed, 10-week version.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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