The federal Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is lending just shy of a combined $1 million to a trio of ocean technology companies.

ABCO Industries of Lunenburg is borrowing $536,802, Halifax-based ReelData is borrowing $250,000 and Dartmouth

Halifax-based Smallfood, one of the stars of the East Coast foodtech scene, is raising a Series A funding round and preparing to open a new plant in Dartmouth that CEO Marc St-Onge expects to generate the company’s first commercial revenue.

He said

The Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, or COVE, has received a pledge of $8.5 million in funding from the Nova Scotia government to continue its programming over the next five years.

Economic Development Minister Susan Corkum-Greek

Halifax startup hub Volta is looking for applicants to pitch at its Virtual Ocean Tech Pitch Competition on Aug. 23.

The competition will see bluetech founders deliver short pitches and then receive feedback from a panel of of industry experts. The

Dalhousie University’s CDL Atlantic, part of the internationally noted Creative Destruction Lab network of startup accelerators, is still looking for this fall’s Oceans cohort. The deadline to apply is July 28, with programming beginning in October.

Atlantic Canada made a strong showing this year at Startupfest in Montreal — one of the world’s largest startup conferences.

With Startupfest running from last Wednesday to Friday and now in its 13th year, the East Coast contingent fell into two

Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute is searching for a new head of its School of Ocean Technology. 

The incoming boss will replace Interim Head Joe Singleton and oversee the development of undergraduate and graduate degree

Ocean Allies, a Halifax-based bluetech organization that partners with industry players to advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the sector, has announced the creation of a new Ocean Impact Award under a partnership with Invest Nova Scotia.

A St. John’s company has devised a seaweed-based solution to one of the more stubborn and widespread forms of waste generated by universities: single-use laboratory plastics.

BioLabMate, founded by Memorial University biochemist Sarika Kumari and

Cascadia Seaweed, the Sidney, B.C. maker of kelp-based fertilizer products, has received $1.5 million of funding to “fast-track” its commercialization activities from the non-profit British Columbia Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy, or CICE.

Four Canadian teams have won a collective $22,500 in the first-ever Ocean Communities Climate Challenge, a program designed to help businesses improve ocean sustainability.

The Challenge was presented by the Ocean Startup Project, a national

Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada is donating $3 million to help grow B.C.'s ocean and marine technology sectors and foster Indigenous entrepreneurship and expertise in emerging industries.

The federal government’s economic development