Innovacorp has awarded two Nova Scotia ocean-tech companies $50,000 each through its Blue Solutions Start-Up Challenge.

The Nova Scotia venture capital and innovation agency said in a statement Thursday that Luna Ocean Consulting and Pelagis Data Solutions won the competition after pitching their prototypes and business models to a panel of judges.

Luna and Pelagis both specialize in collecting

In this edition of Jobs of the Week, we’re highlighting openings for an office administrator at Springboard Atlantic and a lead front-end engineer at Manifold.

Springboard Atlantic works with 19 colleges and universities across Atlantic Canada to try to amplify the economic impact of their research and development capacity. The organization acts as a dating service between industry and academia.

Common Good Solutions has been helping the region’s social entrepreneurs since 2012. Now the Halifax-based mentoring and consulting company is pushing ahead with marketing its online training platform for social entrepreneurs, before others emulate the idea.

CGS started its Social Enterprise Institute (SEI) platform in March last year and later introduced it to the world at the Social Enterprise

Halifax-based game maker Vesuvius Media’s crowdfunding campaign for its latest board game has drawn US$118,563 in commitments, making it the top-grossing tabletop game on Kickstarter over the holiday season.

Vesuvius said in a statement Thursday that the campaign for the game Dwar7s Winter ended Jan. 15 with 1,689 backers. The original goal for the campaign had been US$15,000.

The statement

The significance of SkySquirrel Technologies’ transformative deal announced last week far outweighs the number attached to it. The transaction will send ripples through the AgTech sector in the region and points to a few important trends in the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

CEO Richard van der Put announced that the company had raised $3 million and would use most of it to finance a

Startup Moncton is the latest addition to the Startup Canada Community, a grassroots, non-profit that aims to provide infrastructure and connect startup communities across the country.

Said Debbie Collins, the founding entrepreneur of Startup Moncton: “We foster an atmosphere of inclusivity, welcome diversity, and encourage more entrepreneurs to act as a community leader.”

Startup Moncton is

Eggcitables, a company that makes a vegan egg substitute from chickpeas, won the $10,000 cash prize at the third annual 100 Entrepreneurs Planting Seed$ pitching competition, an initiative put on by the Halifax non-profit, 100 Seed$ Atlantic.

Hannah Chisholm, founder of Eggcitables, will mainly use the winnings to finalize her chickpea recipe so it has the same texture, smell and taste as an egg

It’s an unflattering problem for runners everywhere. You work up a sweat, your face is dripping and your nose starts leaking like a faucet. With no tissues or towels, you turn to the next best thing; the sleeve of your shirt or a good ol’ fashioned snot rocket.

Ryan Jacobson, a Fredericton marathoner who’s fired hundreds of these mucus missiles himself, found a way to put an end to them.

He

Ellen Farrell is looking for a few startup founders or CEOs to help with an international venture capital event for students this spring.  

The entrepreneurship prof at St. Mary’s University’s Sobey School of Business is hoping to find two or three startups interested in pitching at the international Venture Capital Investment Competition, which SMU is hosting in March. The startups would be

St. John’s-based Sequence Bio has named Michael S. Phillips as its new Chief Scientific Officer.

Phillips brings more than 25 years of experience in large-scale genomic projects, drug target discovery and leading research teams to the job.

Sequence Bio, which made the announcement Tuesday, plans to lead a large-scale genetic research project in Newfoundland and Labrador, called the NL Genome