Invest Nova Scotia has announced the 10 companies joining the latest cohort of its Accelerate startup program.
Now in its fourth year, Accelerate offers participating startups four months of business and technical training and $40,000 of funding. It is completely virtual and aimed at companies that have already established market opportunities for products based on science or engineering-related intellectual property, as well as having completed or nearly completed a proof of concept or prototype.
Here’s a look at the companies:
Lark Meadow, Deóis (Yoshi) Ua Cearnaigh
Sydney
Aeon blue is developing technology to use wind energy, seawater and captured carbon dioxide to produce a cost-efficient synthetic fuel.
Alex Liot
Halifax
BILIOnomics describes its mission as providing marketers with authorized, location-centric content from professionally authored and published books.
Dan Ruegg, Lu Liu, Erin Dunnet
Halifax
EcoMarine is developing an autonomous, remote-operated vehicle to clean ships' hulls to achieve, among other things, regulatory compliance.
Shubhra Singh, Purvasha Dewanjee and Rajat Budhiraja
Halifax
EmployNXT is using artificial intelligence and machine learning for job matching, skill prediction and video interview grading.
Shivam Mahajan, Zak Ahmed
Halifax
Floqer sells software to automate sales processes.
Max Medyk
Halifax
ImmigrateAI is working on technology that streamlines and improves the visa application process for new Canadians.
Aaron Dublenko
Pictou, N.S.
Karyotica Labs is developing biostimulants to increase crop productivity and reduce production cost for farmers.
Ulaş Güntürkün
Halifax
Marecomms sells underwater mobile communication technology.
Katie McNeill
Kentville, N.S.
Mycaro is commercializing a sustainable protein with a neutral taste and pleasant texture.
Pascal McCarthy
Halifax
Parados is movement intelligence software that turns any camera into a motion capture system.
