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Supercluster Seeks Offshore Renewables Projects
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
Ocean Tech Council of NS, Innovate UK, Fund Ocean Exploration
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
Dal To Lead $154M Oceans Research Project
Dalhousie University is receiving a $154 million grant from the federal government, representing the largest single research funding deal in the institution’s history, to conduct “the most intensive investigation ever into the ocean’s role in
BlueNode Sold to Everstream
Halifax-based BlueNode, which sells logistics software for the shipping industry, has been acquired by San Marcos, California’s Everstream Analytics for an undisclosed price in what BlueNode CEO Louis Beaubien has described as a bid to diversify his
Supercluster Announces $4.3M of Projects
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced two new projects worth $4.3 million — a $1.3 million initiative to create a digital engineering platform for designing oceans assets and a $3 million plan to develop seafloor imaging tech for fishing
CDL Opens Applications for Prime, Oceans
Dalhousie University’s CDL Atlantic, part of the internationally noted Creative Destruction Lab network of startup accelerators, has opened applications for its 2023 cohort, including a general stream, dubbed Prime, and a bluetech stream, Oceans.
Supercluster Unveils $52M of Refreshed Projects
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, the federal organization that organizes joint funding partnerships with the private sector, has announced a raft of 16 ongoing projects that are worth a total of $52 million.
The combined funding package represents one
Ocean Supercluster to Host Conference
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster will host a one-day conference in Ottawa May 15, dubbed Ambition 2035, with the aim of workshopping strategies to grow the national blue economy to $220 billion over the next 12 years.
The conference will include a
Oneka Bags $4.9M from SDTC
Sherbrooke, Que,-based Oneka Technologies, which has substantial business interests in Nova Scotia, has received a $4.9 million grant from Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC, as it marks the official creation of its Chilean
GIT Raises $10.2M
Halifax-based marine coatings maker Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, has closed a $10.2 million Series A funding round led by BDC Capital’s ClimateTech Fund as it looks to scale up its commercialization activities.
Also investing is
COVE to Host Pitch Session With VCs
The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE, is adding a new feature to its annual Demo Day this year: a pitch session with representatives from 10 bluetech startups and 10 venture capital firms.
The event dubbed
Goldsworthy Named COAST Executive Director
The Victoria-based Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies, or COAST, has announced veteran bluetech and industrial executive Jason Goldsworthy as its new executive director.
Goldworthy was previously Vancouver Island operations manager