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Map of NS Coastline Aims To Enhance Public Safety

  • Sep 12, 2024
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SeafarerAI to Lead $964K Supercluster Project

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Atlantic BioCorp Will Fund Production Facility with Woodward Cup Prize

  • Mar 25, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Ocean Startup Project Announces Follow-On Funding

  • Mar 18, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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

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MarineThinking Attending NATO DIANA

  • Mar 17, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Ashored to be Recognized at CIX

  • Mar 15, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Supercluster Announces $18M of AI, Navigation Projects

  • Mar 14, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Canadian Oceantech on Display in London

  • Mar 13, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Ashored Considers Leasing Model

  • Feb 13, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Elanco Aqua Sold for C$1.75B

  • Feb 07, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Launching our Latest Startup Survey

  • Feb 05, 2024
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Lab2Market Oceans Announces Cohort

  • Jan 24, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Ocean Supercluster Seeks AI Projects

  • Jan 15, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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,

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OceanSync Tracks Maritime Weather

  • Jan 15, 2024
  • Avery Mullen

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

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