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 first opened applications in Cape Breton are still in the running. Newcomers to the competition can also join as long as they apply by April 17 at

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 Arash Helmi, MOC makes technology for 3D printing artificial tissues, such as cartilage, heart valves and nerves. The next step, CEO Mousavi said in an

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.
• Canadian Women in Ocean Industries Leadership 2023 Conference: Diversity in the Blue Economy will be held May 9 to 11 in St. John’s, Newfoundland. The

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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 Zen Electric Bikes. More recently, the company has pivoted to focus on battery systems.

The North South deal is part of a larger funding raise that

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 for the winning programmer or programmers.

“We invite teams of one-three developers of all skill levels to help us solve a major socioeconomic

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 eOceans would like to see it widely adopted, particularly among governments and businesses. The company believes the oceans community should clarify

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.

Students, researchers and recent graduates are all eligible to participate. The program includes a 12-week, milestone-based boot camp and up to $15,000

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 coast of Barrington, Nova Scotia.

Dubbed the Oneka Glacier Project, the $14.1 million deal will see Oneka collaborate with shipyard A.F. Theriault & Son

On Friday, a lynchpin of the American startup ecosystem failed. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed under a bank run and was seized by California regulators.

Startup founders wondered aloud on social media about the extent to which Canadian companies might become embroiled in the crisis, either directly or by way of financial contagion.

Their concern was fuelled not just by the size of SVB — the 16th