Today, on World Oceans Day, we’re launching our first global coverage of the oceantech space.

On our new Oceantech page, we’ve published an article on the explosion in bluetech accelerators around the world, which marks the first time Entrevestor has covered a global development in the startup space. Global bluetech will now become a regular feature in our coverage, and we’re hoping to develop

One of the biggest changes in the ocean innovation space in the last five years is the explosion of bluetech accelerators around the world.

Five years ago, an entrepreneur with an ocean-focused venture would have had only a few accelerators to work with, such as PortXL in Rotterdam or Braid Theory, which works out of the AltaSea facility in Los Angeles.

Today, there are bluetech accelerators

Halifax’s Talkatoo, which sells transcription software for veterinarians, has won a major pitch competition hosted by the North American Veterinary Community, or NAVC, industry group.

Talkatoo beat out 19 competitors at the fourth annual VMX Pet Pitch Competition to win a free exhibitor booth at the Veterinary Innovation Summit in Kansas City and an invite to Purina’s Pet Care Innovation

Halifax’s Aurea Technologies is launching a Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday to fund its first consumer product, a portable wind turbine called Shine.

The turbine is a portable power generator designed for campers and hikers who need to charge their devices during wilderness excursions. CEO Cat Adalay said in an interview that the turbine provides 13.3 watts per pound, making it more efficient

A team in Halifax has completed the soft launch of a new social media network focused on "talk", and hopes it will become the next big thing in online interactions. 

Watzan, a Halifax-based content curation platform for the pharmaceutical industry, has developed a new product for the mass market – a social network that allows people to post with their voices. It’s called ililli – pronounced

Software startup RIDDL has closed a $1.3 million funding round with investors that include Gerry Pond’s East Valley Ventures, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, and at least one angel.

The Nova Scotia and New Brunswick company is aiming to cash in on the burgeoning environmental, social and corporate governance movement with a software platform that automates impact assessments usually

Fredericton-based Anessa Biogas Software has finished a capital raise from a roster of investors that includes Halifax’s Concrete Ventures, Toronto’s GreenSky Capital, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Saint John’s East Valley Ventures.

The parties did not reveal the size of the funding round.

Anessa makes software for feasibility assessments of biogas plants, as well as an artificial

Fredericton-based Smart Skin Technologies has closed a $10.7 million round of funding led by BDC Capital, and intends to double its staff with the new financing.

BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund led the round, which was joined by existing investors including Schott AG, East Valley Ventures and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. Schott, a German glass manufacturer, first

Though remote work has become commonplace in the innovation economy in the past year, a distributed team had already become essential for the business model of one Halifax startup before the pandemic.

Founded in 2016 by Mario Comando and Alessia Bosatra, Renderator makes high-definition, three-dimensional models of buildings, as well as technology for tracking how people react to the models.

The Energia Ventures accelerator is calling for applicants for its fall cohort, which will be its second program held this year.

The accelerator is part of University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management & Entrepreneurship, commonly known as TME.  Energia accepts companies from around the world that are involved in energy, cleantech, cybersecurity and artificial