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Launching our 2022 Canadian Oceantech Report

  • May 17, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

If there was a singular achievement of Canada’s oceantech startup community in 2022, it was that it truly became a national community.

Today, we are releasing our 2022 Canadian Oceantech Data Report, our second analysis of the country’s bluetech

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MUN Opens The Launch

  • May 17, 2023
  • Emma Zhao

Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute this week officially opened the long-awaited marine research lab The Launch in an oceanside location in Holyrood, about 50 kilometers from St. John’s.

The Launch -- formerly known as the Holyrood

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Propel Receives $1.05M from NS Government

  • May 16, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Virtual startup incubator Propel has bagged $1.05 million of funding from the Nova Scotia government over three years, with CEO Kathryn Lockhart saying some of the money will go to expanding the organization’s five-person coaching staff.

She

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Four Atlantic AI Startups to Watch

  • May 16, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

A surge of new, headline-making artificial intelligence products from global leaders like OpenAI and Google have thrust the field into the public consciousness like never before. End users can now command AI systems vastly more versatile and

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Digital NS Opens Upskilling Applications

  • May 16, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Information technologies industry group Digital Nova Scotia has opened applications across Atlantic Canada for its new, $3.7 million jobs training program, which it announced earlier this year.

Dubbed Skills for Hire Atlantic, the initiative is a

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Sandpiper Wins National Innovation Award

  • May 14, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

All-female venture capital fund Sandpiper Ventures has won Best Investment Innovator from this year's Canadian Business Innovation Awards, run by Canadian Business magazine.

Founded in 2020 by former Newfoundland and Labrador Finance Minister Cathy

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Charcoal Names Mike Cyr COO

  • May 14, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

Charcoal Marketing has announced that Mike Cyr, long a pillar of the organization, is its new Chief Operating Officer.

Cyr has been an integral part of the Charcoal team for five years. He is a specialist in digital media and played a key role in

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ACOA Funds 4 Cleantech Startups

  • May 11, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has announced about $2.8 million worth of loans for a quartet of cleantech startups, including Halifax’s Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, which last month closed a $10.2 million series A funding

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Supercluster Seeks Offshore Renewables Projects

  • May 11, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Canada's Ocean Supercluster is asking for project proposals related to scalable renewable energy projects.

The Supercluster, which arranges joint funding agreements with private sector consortiums, is particularly interested in backing projects

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Smallfood Named XPRIZE Finalist

  • May 11, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

Two years after Dartmouth construction technology startup CarbonCure won the internationally noted NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, another Atlantic Canadian company, Halifax’s Smallfood, is one of six finalists in the competition’s US$15 million foodtech

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Bank Scan Pro, Apollo Festival Win Spark Cape Breton

  • May 11, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

The Spark Nova Scotia startup competition, which last fall held two pitching events on the province’s mainland, has announced its Cape Breton winners, both software companies: artificial intelligence bookkeeping startup Bank Scan Pro and festival

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Ocean Tech Council of NS, Innovate UK, Fund Ocean Exploration

  • May 09, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

A quartet of oceantech and computer vision startups, two each from Canada and England, will receive a combined $500,000 to develop sensor and decision-making technology for uncrewed marine vessels under a partnership between the Ocean Technology

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