The federal and Nova Scotia governments on Wednesday announced more than $1.4 million in funding for two ocean-related companies and a support organization.

Halifax-based life sciences company DeNova, which is developing a sustainable source of

Dartmouth-based Sona Nanotech is developing a rapid screening test for the Coronavirus, a fatal disease that has spread around the world.

Sona is using its nanotechnology in the development of a rapid screening test for the novel Coronavirus, known

Away from the glitz of this week’s Academy Award ceremonies, one story that didn’t get covered by the global media was a budding partnership that shows how quickly a young Cape Breton company is growing.

Tara Milburn, the Founder and CEO of

Construction AI startup Harbr will see its technology used on projects owned by rental housing giant Killam Apartment REIT, as part of a pilot deal announced in January.

The news comes as Harbr ramps up its business-to-business marketing efforts

There’s still time to complete our survey, so please do it today if you head a qualifying startup.

I’ve been calling and contacting startups to prod them, and the comment I keep hearing is: ‘I’ve been meaning to get around to it but it slipped my

A new course that helps entrepreneurs cope with the stresses of forming their own businesses has got off to a promising start at the University of New Brunswick.

Organizers hope that Entrepreneurial Resilience, which is a full-credit course, will

Propel, the regional tech accelerator, is looking for an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in Halifax, and that opening headlines our Job of the Week column today.

The pan-regional organization offers a virtual accelerator called Incite – Phase 1 helps

St. John’s-based Verafin has been named to the 2020 Narwhal List, becoming only the second Atlantic Canadian company to be named to the log of Canadian companies that raise a lot of capital quickly.

Verafin made the list on the strength of its $515

Halifax-based Densitas, whose software helps assess the density of breasts during mammograms, has announced that Prince Edward Island has become the second province, after Nova Scotia, to integrate its software across its screening program.

The

Ross Arsenault, a Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer at Halifax oceantech company Ashored Innovations, has won the $10,000 first prize at the Canadian finals of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.

Arsenault, who is now completing the

Trip Ninja has struck a partnership with Britain’s A1 Travel Deals under which the Halifax company’s FareStruture technology will be integrated with Globehunters.com, a subsidiary of A1 Travel serving the U.K.

Trip Ninja is a software-as-a-service

Having adopted a new structure over the past year, Island Water Technologies is hoping to double installations of its Sentry unit this year, focusing on its key markets of California and the U.K.

Charlottetown-based IWT last year took on capital to