Gaming software company Swarmio Media Holdings,  which has received about $5.7 million in funding from government agencies, has filed for creditor protection.

The IT company, which has had operations in Sydney and Halifax and is listed on the

Lunch and Learn, a virtual connector event for women entrepreneurs, will take place on Thursday. Hosted by ONSIDE, a community accelerator program in Nova Scotia, the event aims to help entrepreneurs of underrepresented groups network.

The

St. John’s legal software startup Spellbook is launching a program to make its artificial intelligence system for contract drafting free to law students as the company looks to dramatically scale up its operation and consolidate triple-digit

Industry group Digital Nova Scotia is seeking nominations for this year’s Tech Forward Awards, which honour social and business pioneers in the technology sector.

With winners in eight categories, the awards ceremony will be held Nov. 9 at the

Dalhousie University’s Ocean Alk-align research program, which is studying how to make the world’s oceans more alkaline, has received almost $15 million from the Carbon to Sea Initiative.

Katja Fennel, an oceanographer with Dalhousie, will lead a

NATO's new Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, for which Halifax is bidding to be the North American host city, is seeking applicants for a trio of innovation challenges for sensor and surveillance tech, secure communications and

Dal Innovates, the multi-tiered innovation program at Dalhousie University, is a global finalist for the Triple E Awards, which recognize the most entrepreneurial universities in the world.

Dal is one of 24 university entrepreneurship programs that

Nova Scotia Health’s Innovation Hub is dipping its toe into the startup support ecosystem with a new co-working space for healthtech and medtech startups, along with a Network of Innovators that will offer funding and training services.

The

Dalhousie University researchers are launching an $850,000 project to increase regional and international health security by monitoring emerging pox viruses in Nova Scotia populations. 

In response to recent outbreaks of the MPOX virus (formerly

Virtual Hallway, a Halifax-based platform that lets physicians and nurse practitioners schedule consultations with specialists and streamlines communication and record-keeping processes, has rolled out its technology on Prince Edward Island under a

Two Halifax teams -- Aging Proactively and Axtion Independence Mobility -- will pitch at industry group AGE-WELL’s National Impact Challenge 2023 in Toronto on Thursday, with a chance to win $25,000 each.  

Nominated in the community category of

Fredericton-based Chinova Bioworks, which uses mushrooms to make food preservatives and other ingredients, plans to quadruple its production capacity in response to demand from market-segments including non-alcoholic beer.

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