2021 Challenge Cohort

3F Waste Recovery
Location: Main Brook, Newfoundland & LabradorStatus: Alumniis using a by-product first approach that transforms local fish, farm, forest wastes into globally demanded natural ingredients
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A2O Advanced Materials Inc.
Location: Vancouver, British ColumbiaStatus: AlumniA2o Advanced Materials is developing the next generation of underwater adhesive and bonding coatings.
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Location: Antigonish, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniAcoustic Bait Technologies is developing an alternative bait system for the lobster fishery using recorded acoustic lobster sounds to modify the behaviour of lobsters and attract them into lobster traps.

Aimsir Technologies
Location: Montreal, QuebecStatus: AlumniAimsir Technologies aims to capture ocean-based weather information to significantly improve weather forecast accuracy by retrofitting vessels around the world with Automatic Weather Stations.
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Atlantique Nord Innovation
Location: Shippagan, New BrunswickStatus: AlumniAtlantique Nord Innovation develops functional products that help address the fish waste problem in Atlantic Canada by extracting value from parts of the fish that would typically be dumped into landfills. Their first product in development, ÖVIE, is a refreshing functional carbonated drink infused with marine collagen.
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Canscan Softwares and Technologies
Location: Montreal, QuebecStatus: AlumniCanscan Softwares and Technologies uses machine vision, artificial intelligence and existing infrastructure to automate visual inspection processes of shipping containers in ports, container depots and intermodal yards.
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CORSphere
Location: St. John’s, Newfoundland & LabradorStatus: AlumniCORSphere is developing an industrial asset maintenance tracking software empowered through cross-platform data interconnectivity, collaboration between maintainers, and predictive analytics to reduce downtime.
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Devocéan
Location: Granby, QuebecStatus: AlumniDevocéan develops underwater acoustic triggers that help recover equipment underwater. Devocean’s first commercial target is the fishing market where its triggers allow better cohabitation with marine mammals.
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DownNorth Technologies
Location: Halifax, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniDownNorth Technologies is developing water purification solutions for recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) that uses microbial electrochemical cell technology to remove fish waste without producing toxic by-products or mal-odour compounds.

ExTech MIP
Location: St. John’sStatus: AlumniExTech MIP is developing an extraction device to make analyzing contaminants in water faster and more efficient.

GALAXIA Mission Systems
Location: Halifax, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniGALAXIA Mission Systems is developing a constellation of AI-based small satellites in Low Earth Orbit that provide close to real-time monitoring of ocean-based assets.
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Gazpek
Location: Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniGazpek is developing subsea data centres that maximize advantages of the natural cooling phenomenon of sea water, harness “ghost power” lost in offshore wind cable transmission, and provide improved latency.
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GC Lipid Tech
Location: Montreal, QuebecStatus: AlumniGC Lipid Tech alleviates the ecological pressure on marine life caused by unsustainable fish feed.
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Glas Ocean Electric
Location: Halifax, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniGlas Ocean Electric (GOE) is bringing clean energy to coastal communities through the integration of electric boats with community energy systems. By combining electrification and onboard dynamic energy storage, electric boats present an opportunity to introduce more renewable energy to electrical grids and the communities they serve.
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IntelliReefs CAN
Location: Halifax, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniIntelliReefs CAN restores and enhances degraded ocean ecosystems by designing nanotechnology artificial reefs and infrastructure solutions that increase economic security, biodiversity, coastal protection, and ongoing resilience. The company is collaborating with Dalhousie University researchers to adapt their technology for kelp growth and attraction of commercially and biologically important fish and invertebrate species.
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Kavacha
Location: Canoe Cove, Prince Edward IslandStatus: AlumniKavacha uses fish waste to provide active protection to marine industries through direct-to-metal coatings in harsh environments. Their solution saves users more than 30% on material and labour, while increasing or maintaining asset lifetime, reducing toxin exposure/imprint, and providing a high-volume value add for a fishery waste stream.
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Luna Sea Solutions
Location: Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniLuna Sea Solutions is creating LunaTide: a Data-as-a-Service tidal current forecasting system to help ocean industries make better decisions.
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MacDonald Hallett Oceans Protection Engineering Group
Location: Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniMacDonald Hallett Oceans Protection Engineering Group is developing an Autonomous Emergency Towing System for ships that are in distress, or have been evacuated and left abandoned. This pre-rigged, remotely operated, quick release, autonomously deployed system will bring a ship under control and safely in tow thereby, saving life at sea, preventing loss of ships and cargo, and avoiding environmental disasters with huge liabilities.
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Marecomms Inc.
Location: Halifax, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniMarecomms Inc. is developing robust and broadband underwater wireless communication systems that enables wireless image transmission with unprecedented reliability in the harshest ocean conditions.
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Marimetrics Technologies
Location: Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniMarimetrics Technologies designs, develops and markets technologies for monitoring fish health and welfare in the aquaculture industry.
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Nereus Pharma
Location: Toronto, OntarioStatus: AlumniNereus Pharma develops innovative pharmaceutical products for the aquaculture industry, with a focus on improving aquaculture health sustainability. Their first product is a new antibiotic formulation that could potentially reduce antibiotic environmental contamination by as much as 90%.

Ocean Set
Location: St. John’s, Newfoundland & LabradorStatus: AlumniOcean Set is developing a cloud-based platform that reduces the complexity and increases the intelligence of utilizing and exchanging ocean data. Their vision is to enable ocean organizations to have seamless access to buy, sell, explore, share, and unlock data value. Ocean Set offers software tools and professional services that allow ocean organizations to identify, broker, cleanse, structure, analyse, and exchange their valued data.
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Oxebow Enterprises
Location: Yarmouth, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniOxebow Enterprises is developing an on-board crustacean sorting and grading machine to allow people working on fishing boats to increase efficiency so crews can focus on other important tasks while the catch is automatically processed.

Planetary Hydrogen
Location: Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniPlanetary Hydrogen produces hydrogen while taking CO2 out of the air, transforming it into an antacid and locking it away in ocean chemistry for 100’s of thousands of years.
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Location: Montreal, QuebecStatus: AlumniPrecipice Sensors aims to improve the coverage and accessibility of coastal water level sensors by developing compact technology that is easy to install and maintain.

qualiTEAS
Location: St. John’s, Newfoundland & LabradorStatus: AlumniqualiTEAS is a corrosion inspection and management company. Our vibrant material research team has expertise ranging from material science to programming. Our proactive chemical approach towards corrosion inspection identifies the specific type and degree of corrosion. Our services also include additional environmental analysis (chemical and microbial analysis of soil and water), which provides information on the origin and further impacts of (due to) any ongoing corrosion issue.
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Location: Halifax, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniQuantum Devices Corp. develops leading edge enhanced sensor and camera sun spectrum range technology for 2D, optical chemistry, and depth sensing using a single camera chip for mobile, transportation, and medical imagery.

Rising Tide BioAcoustics
Location: Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniRising Tide BioAcoustics (Dartmouth, NS) provides acoustic systems for fish deterrence, guidance and attraction, marine mammal deterrence, and control/eradication of invasive species.

SeaChange Biochemistry
Location: Cape Sable Island, Halifax, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniSeaChange Biochemistry creates chemicals for industry from sustainably harvested seaweed through an innovative biorefinery process.
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SeaHawk Robotics
Location: Vancouver, British ColumbiaStatus: AlumniSeaHawk Robotics develops and operates multi-domain UAV-based ocean observation systems that disrupt current paradigms by improving access, increase safety, and reducing costs of data collection.
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SednaLink Marine Systems
Location: IqaluitStatus: AlumniSednaLink Marine Systems aims to increase access to key decision making information in the Arctic by integrating sensor technology into telecommunication cables to monitor marine environmental conditions.
Skaldyr
Location: Sydney, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniSkaldyr is a functional ingredient company focused on developing marine-sourced nutraceuticals by upcycling underutilized marine by-products.

Spatialnetic Solutions
Location: New BrunswickStatus: AlumniSpatialnetic Solutions builds custom solutions that remove the barriers for efficient and sustainable operations in the marine economy, leveraging autonomous platforms, workflow automation, and dynamic IoT networks.
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Subait Inc.
Location: Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniSubait Inc. takes a scientific approach to develop a superior sustainable lobster bait substitute based on seafood co-products, replacing environmentally challenging commercial bait fish species.
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Location: Vancouver, British ColumbiaStatus: AlumniTraxe Technologies is developing a blockchain-based traceability solution for seafood brands, enabling end consumers to trace and verify the journey of their seafood product from ocean to table.

Turquoise Revolution
Location: New BrunswickStatus: AlumniTurquoise Revolution is on a mission to make the blue economy greener by developing an innovative solution to dry seaweed crop biomass more efficiently.
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Voltai
Location: Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaStatus: AlumniNova Institute is developing Voltai, a flexible and vibration absorbing generator that harvests energy from motion with 100 times the energy density of traditional turbines.
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