The Ocean Startup Challenge, which offers idea- and early-stage bluetech startups up to $40,000 each, as well as specialized training, mentorship, networking and events, has revealed the 60-company shortlist for its third iteration.

Organized by

Britain's leading global affairs magazine, The Economist, hosted its World Ocean Tech and Innovation Summit at the Halifax Convention Centre this week.

The event drew blue economy leaders from across Canada and around the world, including delegates

The Canadian and British governments are collaborating on a new bluetech innovation competition, with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency giving the Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia $275,000 to help run the program.

The competition will

On the back of quietly raising an unannounced pre-seed round in January, Dartmouth’s Impactful Health R&D is conducting pilot projects with several major players in the fish processing and packaging industries.

Founded by biomaterials researcher

With its five-year mandate set to expire next March, Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is applying to the federal government for a renewal of its funding as it aims to increase the size of the national ocean economy fivefold by 2035.

When it was created

Halifax medical device maker ABK Biomedical has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration for its Easi-Vue embolic microspheres, which are used to treat deformed blood vessels and cancer tumours with abnormally large

Lab2Market’s third oceans cohort commenced Monday, boasting the program’s highest ever level of gender diversity.

Forty percent of the students attending the seven-week accelerator for research commercialization identify as female, compared to 23

A Halifax-based network that tracks ocean health has received almost $39 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The money will help with tracking important aquatic species impacted by climate change.

The Ocean Tracking

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a $1.8 million project led by Halifax-based SailTimer to produce crowd-sourced weather reporting both for and from sailboats.

SailTimer, helmed by President Craig Summers, is currently accepting pre-orders

Britain's leading global affairs magazine, The Economist, will host a bluetech conference in Halifax this October, showcasing the region's fast-growing oceans sector on the international stage.

For several months, readers of The Economist have been

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is launching a mentorship program aimed at helping underrepresented groups find employment opportunities in the ocean economy.

The Supercluster, whose five-year mandate ends next year, is best known for funding

There are just three days left to apply for the second annual cohort of ocean-focused startups in the StartBlue accelerator, being offered in Southern California.  

StartBlue is a bluetech accelerator led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and