8 Nova Scotia Tech Start-Ups Take Their Innovations to the Global Stage at Web Summit Lisbon

This November, eight innovative technology start-ups from Nova Scotia are heading to Lisbon, Portugal, to take part in Web Summit, one of the world’s leading technology conferences.

The delegation will showcase a diverse range of homegrown technologies and solutions, demonstrating the ambition, creativity and global potential of Nova Scotia’s growing tech ecosystem.

Meet the eight Nova Scotia start-ups heading to Lisbon

MindEdge
MindEdge helps athletes develop confidence, focus and resilience through personalized coaching and guided mental performance training. Its platform also equips coaches with tools to better understand athletes' mental performance and provide more effective support.
Contact: Glodin Mulali and Lesley Smyth

ShieldLoss
ShieldLoss replaces paper-based floor logs and incident reports with a mobile-first platform designed for multi-location operations. Its technology allows frontline staff to record inspections, hazards and cleaning activities in real time, while providing management with live risk visibility and secure, timestamped documentation to support claims and incident reporting.
Contact: David Miles

Wellnify.ai
Halifax-based Wellnify.ai provides a white-label digital wellness platform that helps governments, health systems and employers deliver preventative health programs at scale. Through gamified daily activities, AI-driven step goals, challenges and rewards, its platform encourages healthier habits across four dimensions of wellbeing: body, mind, spirit and community.
Contact: Travis McDonough and Brendon Ferguson

PlayFinder
PlayFinder provides shared digital infrastructure that connects communities to recreation. Its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform brings municipalities, recreation facilities, organizations and families together, simplifying registration, payments, bookings, scheduling and reporting. By connecting these services, PlayFinder also generates data and insights that help communities improve participation, optimize resources and make informed decisions.
Contact: Laura Duggan

Hivo
Hivo is transforming how people access flexible workspaces by turning underutilized spaces into productive environments for remote workers, entrepreneurs and digital nomads. Its platform connects the modern workforce with the hospitality sector, creating new opportunities to use existing spaces while giving people greater flexibility in where they work.
Contact: Fahad AlRuhayem

Pricing2Profit
Pricing2Profit is a SaaS platform that helps small businesses understand their operational capacity, assess financial commitments and establish profitable pricing strategies. By turning complex operational and cost data into clear, actionable insights, the platform helps business owners make more informed decisions, strengthen profitability and plan for long-term growth.
Contact: Katy Baker

RetOps
RetOps is an AI-powered revenue protection platform that analyzes customer interactions across calls, chats, emails and support tickets. Its technology identifies service failures, emerging customer churn risks, revenue exposure and potentially risky AI-generated responses. It also provides managers with prioritized alerts, coaching actions and standard operating procedure (SOP) recommendations to help protect revenue and improve customer experiences.
Contact: Tashell Tucker

Gia
Gia helps professional services firms turn their expertise into branded software tools for their clients. Its platform transforms a firm's methodologies and project history into a living knowledge system, allowing firms to deploy secure, client-facing digital tools within the software environments their clients already use.
Contact: Bailey Darling

Building connections and creating global opportunities

Web Summit Lisbon takes place November 9–12, 2026, providing an opportunity for the participating companies to raise their international profiles, connect with potential customers and investors, explore partnerships, and build relationships that can help accelerate their growth beyond Nova Scotia.

Through Invest Nova Scotia's trade mission, participating companies will have access to exhibition opportunities, investor meetings, networking events, mentorship, and masterclasses, helping them build the connections and knowledge needed to pursue international growth.  

To learn more about Invest Nova Scotia's support for high-growth companies and international trade missions, contact:

Valerie Caswell, Export Development Executive
Invest Nova Scotia
valerie.caswell@investnovascotia.ca