Applications open for Third Ocean Startup Challenge, with up to $40,000 in Funds for Idea and Early Stage Ocean Innovators based in Canada
CANADA – (June 22, 2022) The Ocean Startup Project, a national organization working to make Canada one of the best places...
Four Early Stage Companies Win the Ocean Startup Project’s First-Ever Ocean Idea Challenge
Four early stage ocean technology startups have won the first-ever Ocean Idea Challenge, presented by the Ocean Startup Project –...
Ocean Startup Project Calls for Sustainable Ocean Ideas For New Market Validation Competition
CANADA, (March 10, 2022) – The Ocean Startup Project, a national organization making Canada the best place to start and grow...
Research Teams Invited to Apply to Ocean Startup Project’s Lab2Market Oceans Program
CANADA, (February 23, 2022) – The Ocean Startup Project, a national organization making Canada the best place to start and grow...
Lab2Market Oceans Teams
Allos Bioscience Ltd., University of Lethbridge – Novel biosensors to monitor aquaculture health and for other industrial applications. Antioxidant Alternative,...
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Ocean Startup Project Funds 40 Ocean Tech Startups
(October 5, 2021) – The Ocean Startup Project is awarding $1.4 million to 40 early stage ocean technology companies through...
Lab2Market Oceans welcomes 22 new ocean tech ventures
ST JOHN’S, NL (September 21, 2021) – The Ocean Startup Project announces 22 new teams kicking off year two of...
COAST Talks: Cross-Coastal Collaboration in the Blue Economy
VICTORIA, BC — Media and members of the public are invited to join COAST Talks: Cross-Coastal Collaboration in the Blue...
Ocean Startup Challenge returns with up to $1.4 million for ocean innovators
The Ocean Startup Project has launched its second Ocean Startup Challenge. Up from last year’s $350,000 in prize money, the 2021 edition of the competition will award up to $1.4 million to ocean innovators and entrepreneurs from rural, Indigenous and urban communities, across Canada and internationally.
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New program to explore ocean tech opportunities for young women
COVE partners with Ignite Labs, Dalhousie University’s Emera IDEAhub and DeepSense, and the Nova Scotia Dept. of Education to launch...
University teams complete inaugural Lab2Market Oceans cohort
HALIFAX, November 5, 2020 – Seventeen teams from three universities have graduated from the first-ever Lab2Market Oceans cohort. Beginning mid-September,...
Ocean Startup Challenge awards 40% more winners than planned
HALIFAX, September 30, 2020 – The first-ever Ocean Startup Challenge has awarded 14 startup companies with $25,000 each to help...