Halifax-based Hollo Medical and PragmaClin Research of St. John’s will represent Canada at the global finals of the Entrepreneurship World Cup in the early stage and ideation stage categories, respectively.

Three of the seven Canadian finalists were from the Atlantic provinces, with MOC Biotechnologies, also headquartered in Halifax, the only one of the trio not to advance to the international competition.

The Entrepreneurship World Cup is organized by the Misk Foundation, a Saudi Arabian non-profit founded by that country’s head of state, Mohammed bin Salman. The World Cup has a $1 million prize pool with $500,000 earmarked for the top startup globally.

PragmaClin, run by CEO Bronwyn Bridges, is building solutions to allow for remote medical assessments of people with movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease.

The company is developing PRIMS, the Parkinson's Remote Interactive Monitoring System, which allows patients to stand in front of a laptop or other device with a camera and perform a series of movements directed by the system. PRIMS records the motions and sends the data to a medical professional for assessment.

Hollo and CEO David Hodgson, meanwhile, are developing a spacer for use with asthma inhalers that is small enough to fit in a child’s pocket, unlike existing, cumbersome products. In previous public statements, Hodgson said the device will be simpler to manufacture than conventional spacers and the regulatory approval process will be simplified by the fact that the technology’s underlying mechanism is already approved and widely used.

And MOC co-founders Ali Mousavi and Arash Helmi are working on technology for 3D printing medical implants and other items compatible with human biology, a process called “bioprinting.” The duo, both veteran entrepreneurs, relocated to Nova Scotia from Iran for better access to the lucrative North American medtech markets

All three Atlantic companies have been on a collective tear of late, with Hollo and PragmaClin both winning top prizes at the Canadian edition of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards in July, and Hollo and MOC among the companies to win the Volta Cohort pitch competition last year. PragmaClin also won the early-stage startup prize from the University Startup World Cup earlier this week.

Note: An earlier version of this story was written prior to Entrevestor having access to a press release and omitted PragmaClin as one of the Canadian winners.