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

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

The University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship will host its Future of Innovation in Canada conference Oct. 17, exploring the latest trends and talking-points in the innovation economy.

Online startup accelerator Propel has announced 14 businesses joining the fall cohort of its Traction and Growth accelerator for scaling companies.

Traction and Growth is meant for startups with more developed operations than those in Propel’s

We’re thrilled to announce that Entrevestor Live will be held this year in collaboration with Tribe Network in downtown Halifax at their new office location, 1717 Barrington Street.

This announcement is more than just a change of location from our

The co-CEOs of Saint John technology company Innovatia, Roxanne Fairweather and Dave Grebenc, have been inducted into industry group InnovateNB’s Hall of Fame.

Innovatia, which helps businesses develop and implement their internal

Halifax-based Glas Ocean Electric, which is developing technology to electrify boats and optimize their energy performance, has won a contract from the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

The company issued a

Growing out of the crisis of the pandemic, Halifax-based Food for Thought Software Solutions, a company that provides stigma-free school meals to kids in need, is using its participation in a U.S. EdTech program to expand.

The

Industry group Digital Nova Scotia has a new CEO: software-as-a-service veteran Owen Sagness.

With a background at Microsoft, where he eventually became the U.K. managing director for advertising and online, Sagness most recently founded consulting

Arolytics, the Halifax- and Calgary-based maker of emissions tracking software for oil and gas companies, has raised a seed round worth over $3.5 million, led by BDC Capital’s new, $150 million Sustainability Venture Fund.

Other backers of the

Boston-based bluetech innovation hub SeaAhead and the New England Aquarium have selected a fourth cohort of startups for BlueSwell, a program focused on early-stage bluetech innovation.   

The five startups target decarbonization, ocean data

The Halifax maker of anti-microbial film for fish packaging that was formerly called Impactful Health R&D has rebranded to Freshr Sustainable Technologies.

Freshr, which was founded by biomaterials researcher Mina Mekhail in 2017 and makes its