recent oceantech news
Atlantic BioCorp Will Fund Production Facility with Woodward Cup Prize
Atlantic BioCorp Founder Dante Enewold plans to use the $25,000 he won in last week's Woodward Cup pitch competition to build a production facility for his process that converts crab shells into chitosan.
Held Wednesday by the Memorial Centre for
Ocean Startup Project Announces Follow-On Funding
National industry group the Ocean Startup Project has announced 12 alumni from its accelerator program that will receive follow-on funding.
Offered for the first time this year, the Ocean Challenge: Boost funding program offers additional funding
MarineThinking Attending NATO DIANA
Halifax-based MarineThinking, which has developed autonomous technologies for marine vessels, is now going through NATO’s new innovation accelerator operating out of Boston.
The company is one of seven companies selected for the first cohort of the
Ashored to be Recognized at CIX
Bedford, N.S.-based Ashored Innovations will be the only Atlantic Canadian company among the Top 20 early-stage startups to watch at this year’s CIX Summit in Toronto.
The CIX conference, organized by non-profit innovation network and events
Supercluster Announces $18M of AI, Navigation Projects
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a trio of new projects worth a combined $17.8 million, including a $12 million funding package led by a Halifax startup aimed at developing berth scheduling AI for ports.
The AI project aims to develop a
Canadian Oceantech on Display in London
The Canadian oceantech community – and the Atlantic Canadian contingent in particular – is on full display at the Oceanology International conference in London, seeking investment, customers and international partnerships.
Oceanology International
Ashored Considers Leasing Model
Bedford, N.S.-based Ashored Innovations has a pair of key choices to make this month or the next, chief business development officer Stephen Jones said in an interview Tuesday, as the maker of rope-on-command fishing gear looks to capitalize on
Elanco Aqua Sold for C$1.75B
Indiana pharmaceuticals giant Elanco Animal Health has sold its Prince Edward Island operation, a stalwart of the province’s life sciences cluster, to Merck & Co. for US$1.3 billion, or C$1.75 billion.
Elanco’s business unit for aquaculture
Launching our Latest Startup Survey
We’re calling on all startups to complete our quick-and-confidential 2023 Atlantic Canadian startup survey, which is the backbone of our coming Entrevestor Atlantic Canada Startup Data report.
The startup report provides a benchmark used by
Lab2Market Oceans Announces Cohort
Memorial University and the Ocean Startup Project have announced the 19 companies in the latest cohort of their seven-week Lab2Market Oceans program.
Part of a national group of accelerators, Lab2Market Oceans is aimed at helping academic
Ocean Supercluster Seeks AI Projects
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is seeking proposals for projects focused on integrating artificial intelligence into the blue economy.
The call is part of a broader, Canada-wide initiative by the Supercluster to foster innovations in oceans AI,
OceanSync Tracks Maritime Weather
With the help of sensors mounted on customer ships, Halifax’s OceanSync is commercializing a potential solution to a longstanding challenge for the marine industry: that of obtaining reliable weather data.
Chief executive Sebastiaan Ambtman, who