Two Nova Scotian groups supporting startups will hold virtual demo days in the next week, showcasing a total of 37 companies based in the province.
The Emera IDEAhub, Dalhousie University’s hardware incubator, will host its first IDEA Demo Day on Wednesday at 3 pm. It will feature presentations from 15 graduates from its Build program, as well as videos from five graduates.
Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency, will feature 20 companies at its Innovacorp Investor Showcase at 1 pm on June 1. Three companies, Graphite Innovation Technologies, Swiftsure Innovations, and NovaResp Technologies, will be featured in both events.
Both are free, and you can register for the Innovacorp event here and the IDEA Demo Day here.
The Innnovacorp Investor Showcase will be divided into four sectors, each featuring showcase companies and ones to watch (except the industrial biotechnology category which only has companies to watch). Here are the companies, with links where available to their websites:
CLEAN AND OCEAN TECHNOLOGY
Global Spatial Technology Solutions
Graphite Innovation Technologies
CLEAN AND OCEAN TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES TO WATCH
ICT SHOWCASE
ICT COMPANIES TO WATCH
LIFE SCIENCES AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE
LIFE SCIENCES AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES TO WATCH
Swiftsure Innovations
INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANIES TO WATCH
SeaChange BioChemistry
The IDEA Demo Day showcases the following graduates of the Build program:
Axtion Independence Mobility
MacDonald Hallett Oceans Protection Engineering Group
AvisensX
Remote Energy Systems
Caldi Controls
Swiftsure Innovations
The alumni companies that will be featured in videos are: NovaResp, Prosaris, Novalte, Coloursmith Labs, and Graphene Innovation.
