SeafarerAI, a young Saint John-area company that uses artificial intelligence to improve port operations, will lead a project supported by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster to use AI in port dredging.

The Supercluster, a federal agency that partners with

When Marcel Gaier commutes to work these days, he often travels via a ferry treated with his own company’s environmentally friendly hull coating.

Gaier is the chief technology officer for GIT Coatings, previously Graphite Innovation and

The national industry group Ocean Startup Project is looking for applicants to Ocean Idea Challenge, which offers young companies up to $7,000 of funding, as well as training and support services.

The Idea Challenge is a milestone-based accelerator

Two East Coast businesses, Halifax’s EmployNXT and St. John’s-based qualiTEAS, will participate in events hosted by startup support organizations outside Atlantic Canada in the coming weeks.

EmployNXT, which sells an AI system that matches

St. John’s-based Kraken Robotics has announced a $17.5 million equity funding deal with a syndicate of investors led by Toronto’s Cormark Securities, with plans to spend some of the money in expanding its manufacturing capacity and physical capital.