Saint John-based Innovatia Accelerator, which makes software for information management and communication in industrial settings, has been acquired by Swedish automation and remote monitoring giant Hexagon AB for an undisclosed price.

Innovatia is

Two Atlantic Canadian startups have inked collaboration deals with foreign companies: Halifax construction fintech specialist Harbr and Fredericton- and Miami-based sales software-maker Introhive.

Introhive sells artificial intelligence technology

After six years leading the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, Florian Villaumé has been selected as the new CEO for techNL, the Newfoundland and Labrador association for digital industries.

The techNL board’s search committee had been working

Volta CEO Martha Casey will step down this month after almost two years in the role, rejoining former collaborator Richard Florizone at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, or IISD, as Vice-President of Operations and

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced $1 million of investments in a trio of artificial intelligence research and development projects via its Strategic Acceleration program for ongoing research projects.

The three university-based

Medtech company Precision BioLogic and cleantech star CarbonCure Technologies have been honoured at the Halifax Chamber of Commerce’s 2022 Halifax Business Awards. CarbonCure won Innovative Business of the Year and Precision BioLogic won the

A group of 26 Cape Breton investors have pooled $1.3 million of their personal money to form the island’s first venture capital fund, Cape Breton Capital Group.

General Partner Todd Mercer, who runs residential oil supply company Mercer Fuels, said

A $2 million capital raise by Halifax’s Dear Life will go towards developing an online platform to automatically comb through users’ raw video clips and edit them into compilations, according to company President Harrison Smith.

The funding round

Dartmouth's Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship’s will host an Ocean Connector event Thursday, that will include a panel on the bluetech startup ecosystem.

The panelists will be moderator Mohammad Ali Raza, Eric Siegel, Peter Moreira and

Dal Innovates, the innovation arm of Dalhousie University, plans to launch the Scientific Venture Program this autumn, rounding out a suite of programs designed to develop entrepreneurial thinking.

The program will help people working on

The Halifax Innovation District has begun a series of articles that show how Halifax entrepreneurs are using the city’s startup ecosystem to develop their businesses.

The first two articles, which detail how companies receive support from Volta and

St. John’s-based PragmaClin Research has won first place and $25,000 in Memorial University’s annual Mel Woodward Cup, as Co-Founders Bronwyn Bridges and Gord Genge prepare to trial their software and hardware suite for helping Parkinson’s patients.