The first Ocean Startup Challenge has awarded $25,000 each to 14 companies – 40 percent more winners than it had originally planned.

Organizers had intended to announce 10 winners but said the judges decided to extend the group of winners to 14 due to the calibre of the startups. As well as all four Atlantic Provinces, the winners are based in British Columbia, Ontario and Washington, D.C.

The

One part of our Atlantic Canada Startup Data report that merits closer examination is our claim that the region has a problem with early-stage funding.

This sort of funding declined in 2019 for the first time in three years, and the pandemic will likely result in a further drop in 2020. And that is important because funding rounds of less than $500,000 are needed to bring young companies to the

Our Job of the Week column features an opening for a Product Marketing Manager at Dash Hudson in Halifax.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for clients to manage, source and engage with the traffic of their photos and videos.

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Planet Hatch is preparing to launch a new program that prepares post-secondary students for the coming wave of employment opportunities, and it hopes to extend the program beyond New Brunswick.

The Fredericton-based innovation hub is working with the University of New Brunswick on the pilot of the Future of Work Skills-Development program, which it hopes to launch in the next few months.

Canada's Ocean Supercluster said last week it is helping to fund the OceanDNA System, a project designed to change the way scientists monitor the ocean.

With a total project value of $4.9 million, the Supercluster has provided $2.2 million in funding to the project with the balance of funding coming from project partners.

The OceanDNA project is being led by eDNAtec Inc., a St. John’s company

The Health Challenge Pitch Event has named four companies to participate in its second pitching competition, which will be held Friday and award $100,000 to the winner.

Several Nova Scotian organizations this summer launched the program, which aims to provide grants totalling $500,000 to Atlantic Canadian health and life sciences companies, and arrange for them to work with the Nova Scotia

The Scale-Up Hub: Cambridge project has extended the deadline for applications for its next cohort – which will be a virtual program – until Friday.

The program, which helps scaling companies find clients in the New England market, is looking for about a half-dozen Atlantic Canadian companies to participate. You can find application forms here.

The program usually offers companies a base in

The UNB TME group on Monday is launching its second cohort of I-STEM, a program that helps post-secondary researchers develop companies by using lean startup methodology.

Developed in partnership with George Washington University and based on the I-Corps methodology created by the National Science Foundation in the U.S., the program teaches researchers how to commercialize deep technology and

Eight teams presented at the UNB Summer Institute's Demo Day on Wednesday, wrapping up a cohort that was conducted virtually because of the pandemic. 

The University of New Brunswick’s TME group – whose formal name is the J Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship – holds its Summer Institute each year, placing less emphasis on innovation than other similar programs.

Fredericton-based entrepreneurship centre Planet Hatch has announced the launch of its new Startup Management Accelerator.

The accelerator will help entrepreneurs as they transition from the startup phase to fully established and growing businesses.

Participants will graduate from the program with a forward-looking business strategy and the essential skills and knowledge to transition from