Challenge Alumni

3F Waste Recovery

is using a by-product first approach that transforms local fish, farm, forest wastes into globally demanded natural ingredients

7 Leagues Leather Ltd.

A2O Advanced Materials Inc.

A2o Advanced Materials is developing the next generation of underwater adhesive and bonding coatings.

AbbaTek Group Inc.

AI interface to streamline, standardize and de-skill microplastics analysis and reporting

Acoustic Bait Technologies

Aimsir Technologies

Aimsir Technologies aims to capture ocean-based weather information to significantly improve weather forecast accuracy by retrofitting vessels around the world with Automatic Weather Stations.

Akwekon Enterprises

A fast, stable and hyper efficient smart electric fishing vessel

Atlantique Nord Innovation

Atlantique 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. 

BioLabMate

Blue Lion Labs

Blue Lion Labs is developing a system to automatically identity and count different types of algae in your water through the power of Artificial Intelligence and unique data collection. Through revolutionary technology built based on established research at the University of Waterloo, Blue Lion Labs aims to change the way we protect our water globally forever.

Received funding from Boost to advance MVP development

Canadian Pacifico Seaweeds Ltd.

A remote real-time environmental and structural farm monitoring system 

Canscan Softwares and Technologies

Canscan 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.

Clean Catch Inc.

A biodegradable electric autonomous target vessel for navy

Coastal Carbon

ASL Energy (Composite Mats Canada Inc.)

A modular runway system for remote and northern communities made from recyclable materials

Received funding from Boost to Integrate scale into mobile recycling solution

CORSphere

CORSphere is developing an industrial asset maintenance tracking software empowered through cross-platform data interconnectivity, collaboration between maintainers, and predictive analytics to reduce downtime.

CuredCarbon

Cuttlefish Robotics

Dasivedo Design Ltd.

Devocéan

Devocéan 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.

DownNorth Technologies

DownNorth 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

ExTech MIP is developing an extraction device to make analyzing contaminants in water faster and more efficient.

GALAXIA Mission Systems

GALAXIA 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.

Gazpek

Gazpek 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.

GC Lipid Tech

GC Lipid Tech alleviates the ecological pressure on marine life caused by unsustainable fish feed.

GeoHazard Integrity AI Inc.

AI integrated geohazard analysis platform to lower exploration and development costs for marine energy projects

Glas Ocean Electric

Glas 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.

Goldfish Inc.

Goldfish Inc. (formerly Virgil Group LLC) is developing All-in-one Legal Fisheries Analysis (ALFA) software that goes beyond traceability to tackle an essential question in responsible seafood.

GreenSage Prebiotics Inc.

Prebiotics from coconut residue for aquaculture and humans – a product to support immune and digestive health 

Hoola One

Two technologies developed to treat and collect plastic pollution on contaminated land or in the grey water from ships

Hypérion ML Inc.

In Nature Robotics

In Nature Robotics Ltd. makes autonomous airboats for measuring and surveying water with lots of vegetation. Their boats go places where other boats get stuck.

Integrative Nanotech Ltd.

Intel Vision Technologies Inc.

IntelliReefs CAN

IntelliReefs 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.

Kavacha

Kavacha 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.

Luna Sea Solutions

Luna Sea Solutions is creating LunaTide: a Data-as-a-Service tidal current forecasting system to help ocean industries make better decisions. 

Mabel Systems

Mabel provides an automated inventory tracking solution for the food processing industry. We designed our solution with the operators in mind. Our computer vision technology actually makes the job of receiving, grading and packing products easier.

MacDonald Hallett Oceans Protection Engineering Group

MacDonald 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.

Marecomms Inc.

Marecomms Inc. is developing robust and broadband underwater wireless communication systems that enables wireless image transmission with unprecedented reliability in the harshest ocean conditions.

Marimetrics Technologies

Marimetrics Technologies designs, develops and markets technologies for monitoring fish health and welfare in the aquaculture industry.

MF2S Industries

nditive3D

A digital twin-driven system for real-time monitoring of the hazardous gases in marine operations

Received funding from Boost to purchase equipment for further development of MVP 3.0, and initiate patent application process with legal firm

Nereus Pharma

Nereus 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%.

Nereus Therapeutics

Ocean Set

Ocean 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.

OnDeck Fisheries AI

OnDeck makes fisheries monitoring scalable with artificial intelligence

OPAS Mobile

An intelligent operations management platform that improves safety, compliance and efficiency in the offshore industry

Oxebow Enterprises

Oxebow 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.

PhyCo

PLAEX Building Systems Inc.

Planetary Hydrogen

Planetary 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.

Precipice Sensors

Precision Pathways

qualiTEAS

qualiTEAS 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.

Received funding from Boost to hire a business development subcontractor to identify and initiate conversations with potential customers in the Canadian market

Quantum Devices Corp.

Rapid Subsea Inc.

Rising Tide BioAcoustics

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

Received funding from Boost to develop simulation of cruise ship generator noises to model the performance of underwater noise cancellation and collect data for future pilot project

Salus Automated Technologies Inc.

Self-launched drone monitoring system for tracking ocean infrastructure

Scient Analytics Inc.

An imaging solution for streamlined analysis of ocean substrate and sediment samples 

SeaChange Biochemistry

SeaChange Biochemistry creates chemicals for industry from sustainably harvested seaweed through an innovative biorefinery process.

SeaHawk Robotics

SeaHawk 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.

Seathru Technologies

SednaLink Marine Systems

SednaLink 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

Spatialnetic Solutions

Spatialnetic 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.

Subait Inc.

Subait 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.

Swordfish Energy Corporation

Traxe Technologies

Turquoise Revolution

Turquoise Revolution is on a mission to make the blue economy greener by developing an innovative solution to dry seaweed crop biomass more efficiently. 

Ultimate Lobster Bait Inc.

Voltai

Nova Institute is developing Voltai, a flexible and vibration absorbing generator that harvests energy from motion with 100 times the energy density of traditional turbines.

WeavAir

WeavAir provides an end-to-end hardware and software solution for vessel emission monitoring by using predictive algorithms that promote regulation compliance and operation costs savings for ship owners, ship managers and port operation team.