recent oceantech news
Kraken Signs Subsea Cabling Deal
St. John’s marine robotics company Kraken Robotics, which was the top performing tech stock on the TSX Venture exchange last year, has announced a lucrative new deal to participate in survey work in the North Sea.
Under the contract with Dutch
Barrington Edge Launches Blockchain ESG for Seafood
Halifax startup consultancy and professional services firm Barrington Edge has launched a blockchain-based supply chain tracking platform under a collaboration with one of its clients, Kelowna, B.C.’s FutureWELL.
The new platform, dubbed Authen,
Supercluster Seeks Oceans AI Projects
With a refreshed five-year mandate from the federal government, Canada's Ocean Supercluster is calling for applicants to its new artificial intelligence program, which will spend $20 million to fund research and commercialization work from blue
Bluetech: Novarium Aims for More Funding in Quebec
Asked for her priorities for 2023, Amélie Desrochers answered instantly: she wants to see more funding for bluetech startups in Quebec.
Desrochers is the Accelerator Head at Novarium, the blue economy support organization based in Rimouski, the
Quebec’s New Bluetech Accelerator
Novarium, the Quebec bluetech support organization, has opened the first cohort of its Flots Pro accelerator, welcoming companies from across the province to the 12- to 18-month program.
Flots targets companies with a product in the market, helping
Oneka Opens Nova Scotia Office
Sherbrooke, Que,-based Oneka Technologies, which in 2021 raised $5.5 million in a round of equity and non-dilutive funding, has opened an office at the Dartmouth-Based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE.
Founded in 2015 by
Upcoming Free Oceans Webinars
Several free webinars are coming up in the ocean communitity.
First, the Victoria-based Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies, or COAST, is holding a webinar on March 15 on the role of ocean tech in climate security.
Flooding,
Ocean Supercluster Mandate Renewed
Canada's Ocean Supercluster has had its mandate renewed by the Canadian government for another five years, although the federal money it will receive over that period has been cut compared to its previous funding package.
When Ottawa created the
Ocean Supercluster to Collaborate with Portugal on AI
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has inked a collaboration and knowledge-sharing deal with Fórum Oceano, a government-backed Portuguese nonprofit that nurtures the ocean economy.
Created in 2009, Fórum Oceano is now officially designated by Portugal as
Kraken Top-Performing Tech Company on TSX-V Last Year
Kraken Robotics, the St. John’s maker of underwater drones, was the top performing technology sector company on the TSX Venture in 2022, according to the exchange’s yearly Venture 50 rankings, which consider movements in businesses’ share prices,
Canadian Bluetech at Oceanology International Conference
Canada has sent a deep roster of oceantech industry members and ecosystem support players to this year's Oceanology International Americas conference in San Diego, which is underway this week.
Twenty Canadian exhibitors — many of them startups, and
GIT, KOTUG Canada Enter Sales Deal
Halifax-based Graphite Innovation and Technologies has begun applying its environmentally friendly, fuel-saving marine hull coatings to the ships of maritime services company KOTUG Canada.
GIT has applied its coatings to more than 20 vessels now,