Canada has sent a deep roster of oceantech industry members and ecosystem support players to this year's Oceanology International Americas conference in San Diego, which is underway this week.

Twenty Canadian exhibitors — many of them startups, and all but one from either British Columbia or Atlantic Canada — are attending, along with a roster of ecosystem delegates from organizations like

Halifax’s Tidal Venture Partners has pledged to donate a portion of its profits to the Discovery Centre science museum, also in Halifax, in a move that looks to be aimed at least partly at increasing the talent pipeline for STEM jobs in Atlantic Canada.

The Discovery Centre mostly offers educational programming for children, and a frequent refrain from innovation economy observers is that the

Halifax-based Graphite Innovation and Technologies has begun applying its environmentally friendly, fuel-saving marine hull coatings to the ships of maritime services company KOTUG Canada.

GIT has applied its coatings to more than 20 vessels now, having inked partnerships last year with Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping, whose Techstars-backed startup accelerator it joined last year, and

Riverview, N.B. recruitment automation startup CandidateHub.io is eyeing sales to private healthcare facilities in the United States after receiving $50,000 from Kaleidoscope Social Impact, a Saint John-based social impact investor that offers loans and training programs to entrepreneurs.

CandidateHub CEO Brad DiPaolo said in an interview that his company is aiming to help private hospital

Last summer, Fredericton-based cybersecurity startup Beauceron Security quietly raised an oversubscribed $3.1 million equity funding round that included strategic investors from the world of community banking.

The round was led by Utah-based BankTech Ventures, with the Independent Community Bankers of America, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, the Arkansas-based Venture Center and

Nova Scotia industry group BioNova has appointed Doris Grant, formerly a high-ranking Nova Scotia Health Authority civil servant, as its vice president of business development and strategy.

At the NSHA, Grant was senior director of innovation, overseeing the Health Innovation Hub that often collaborates with healthtech and biotech startups. Before that, she spent more than 14 years running

A $50 million funding package to create a new BioAccelerator life sciences hub on Prince Edward Island, announced Friday, is set to become the largest single investment in economic development infrastructure in the province’s history.

Spearheaded by industry group the PEI BioAlliance, the BioAccelerator will include 75,000 square feet of space for biomanufacturing research and manufacturing

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are giving the Université de Moncton a combined $324,000 worth of grants to create a new artificial intelligence hub at its Shippagan, New Brunswick campus.

Dubbed the Carrefour de formation en robotique et intelligence artificielle, or CFRIA, the new centre will be focused on developing innovative industrial

For a week this March, entrepreneurs, students and researchers will gather in Fredericton for the city’s Boost Ideation Camp with the aim of developing new ways to track and reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Backed by Fredericton business incubator Planet Hatch and economic development agency Ignite Fredericton, the event will choose applicants partly based on whether they have

Dartmouth’s CarbonCure Technologies has managed to successfully sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide in concrete as part of a joint project with Brisbane, California-based Heirloom, in what both companies have described as a world first.

CarbonCure already sells technology to inject carbon dioxide into concrete, sequestering it and strengthening the end product. What makes the Heirloom project