In preparing our latest Canadian oceantech report, one thing that has been striking is the swift evolution of a national network of accelerators for early-stage oceantech startups.

Five years ago, any Canadian bluetech entrepreneur looking for a program would have had to learn the ropes in a general accelerator. Today, we can count at least nine dedicated bluetech accelerators, located in four

Halifax-based conference organizer Jameson Group is looking for cleantech startups to compete in a pitch challenge at its 19th annual Smart Energy Event, attended by a roster of about 400 national delegates from the smart energy industry.

Winning applicants will have the chance to invite up to 20 guests to hear their 15-minute pitches, as well as have a shorter, five-minute pitch hosted on the

On Thursday, specialty software-maker Notch Embedded won the $25,000 grand prize at the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship’s Woodward Cup student pitch competition in St. John's, with waste management AI startup SmartBin Technologies taking home the $15,000 second prize.

Headed by computer engineering student and former Tesla intern Shane Williams, Notch has developed technology that allows

The St. John’s-based Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, will hand out $40,000 in prize money to companies founded by Memorial University students during its Mel Woodward Cup pitch competition, to be held today, March 23.

The event, to be held at Memorial’s Signal Hill Campus from 4 to 6 p.m. NST will be a pitching competition for student entrepreneurs who are serious about developing

The Halifax Partnership is launching a new construction technology accelerator under a partnership with the city of Guelph, Ontario and the Vancouver Economic Commission.

The National Construction and Demolition Circular Innovation Challenge, or COIL, will seek out startups with ideas to recover more construction waste materials for reuse, or for methods of recycling those materials more

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship and Thales Canada, a division of French satellite imaging giant Thales Group, will run two naval innovation challenges this spring with prizes of $175,000 each.

The first challenge will invite participants to develop a methodology for testing condition-based maintenance procedures, which use digital models of industrial

New Brunswick's Joint Economic Development Initiative, or JEDI, the Indigenous economic development organization, has launched a directory of First Nations businesses, along with its own e-commerce shop.

Indigeshop, as JEDI has dubbed its e-commerce storefront, will give Indigenous companies, including startups, a centralized place to sell their products.

“This site provides a space for

P.E.I.-based Sofistofish Technologies, which makes analytics software for lobster fishers, has announced a North American distribution deal with Mackay Marine Canada, which is a division of one of the world's largest maritime electronics companies.

Founded by CTO Kirk Arsenault in late 2021 and now headed up by CEO Ken Driscoll, Sofistofish was inspired by Arsenault’s experiences fishing for

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