The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship and Thales Canada, a division of French satellite imaging giant Thales Group, will run two naval innovation challenges this spring with prizes of $175,000 each.

The first challenge

New Brunswick's Joint Economic Development Initiative, or JEDI, the Indigenous economic development organization, has launched a directory of First Nations businesses, along with its own e-commerce shop.

Indigeshop, as JEDI has dubbed its

P.E.I.-based Sofistofish Technologies, which makes analytics software for lobster fishers, has announced a North American distribution deal with Mackay Marine Canada, which is a division of one of the world's largest maritime electronics companies.

The Spark Nova Scotia startup competition, which last fall held three pitching events on the province’s mainland, is coming to Cape Breton as it looks to revive last fall’s competition with new entries.

Companies that entered last fall when Spark

Halifax bioprinting startup MOC Biotechnologies is testing its products with a slate of universities and research institutions across North America as it eyes its first major capital raise.

Founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneurs Ali Mousavi and

Here are a few of the oceans events that will take place in Canada and around the world in the coming months:

• Ocean Business will occur April 18 to 20, in Southampton, U.K. The free event will focus on defining the future of ocean technology.

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We’re now surveying startups in the region to establish the metrics for our annual Atlantic Canada

Halifax’s Zen Electric has raised $1.25 million from Nigerian utility company North South Power as it eyes commercialization of its technology in South Asia.

Zen was originally founded by Ravindra Kempaiah to make electric bicycles under the name

Sydney-based Protocase is sponsoring a hackathon at innovation hub Navigate Startup House this month aimed at solving socioeconomic problems in Cape Breton.

The event will run for 12 hours on March 25 and four hours on March 26, with a $1,500 prize

Halifax-based research group eOceans has come up with a definition for the “Blue Economy” that only includes activities that are tied to ocean health.

Some academics and some experts in southern hemisphere countries use a similar definition, and

Dalhousie University’s Dal Innovates startup hub has opened applications to the three summer cohorts of its Lab2Market Launch Accelerator, which will include an Atlantic research stream, a national health stream and a generalized Atlantic stream.

Sherbrooke, Que,-based Oneka Technologies, which recently opened an office at the Dartmouth-Based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, will head up a new Ocean Supercluster project to install a wave-powered desalination system off the