Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute this week officially opened the long-awaited marine research lab The Launch in an oceanside location in Holyrood, about 50 kilometers from St. John’s.

The Launch -- formerly known as the Holyrood

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has announced about $2.8 million worth of loans for a quartet of cleantech startups, including Halifax’s Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, which last month closed a $10.2 million series A funding

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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