Blue-Green, Start-up Yard Winners
DEC 05, 2019 PETER MOREIRA
Innovacorp has announced the companies selected to participate in its Blue-Green Challenge and Start-Up Yard at COVEcohort for the 2019-2020 season.
The Nova Scotia government’s early-stage venture capital agency issued a statement Thursday saying Blue-Green Challenge round one winners receive $5,000 as well as guidance from business veterans. Round two winners receive $10,000. The Blue-Green Challenge, a competition for startups involved in ocean technology, agritech or cleantech, is delivered by Innovacorp with support from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.
Start-Up Yard participants – which are all oceantech companies – receive $22,500 and access to mentoring, workshops and space at the harbourside facility in Dartmouth. The intake announced Thursday is the third cohort of the program.
The winners are:
BLUE-GREEN ROUND ONE
Oceantech
44 North – Calder Robinson, David Barclay, Emmanuelle Cook, Michael Beaudoin – Halifax
Navigation system to optimize ocean transit using underwater currents.
BlackWatch.Tech – Jonathan Raimund, Matt d’Entremont – Yarmouth
Man-overboard device to reduce fisher fatality
Clean Catch Inc. – Guillermo Villarreal De Lara, Katherine Vanzutphen, Craig Retson, Robel Berhane, Hohnathan LePage-Billard – Halifax
Sustainable alternative to single-use, plastic fishing lures
Clean Valley CIC – Nicholas LaValle, Zhen Xiong, Damir Allen – Dartmouth
Non-toxic solutions for microplastics pollution
Easy Ocean Technology – Luting Zhang, Zhaohua Sun – Halifax
Smartphone application to capture ocean optical data, including early prediction of harmful algal blooms
Marimetrics Technologies – Chris L'Esperance – Halifax
Trace gas analyzer to measure chemical compounds in the ocean
Pombcoup Technologies – Marc d'Entremont, Angie Greene – Yarmouth
Trawler system to protect the seabed by avoiding contact with the ocean floor
SailTimer – Craig Summers – Halifax
Crowd-sourced wind maps from sensors on sailboats to improve marine weather forecasts
Tracker Inventory Systems – Gavin Andrews, Matthew Pyne – Sydney
Automated inventory management for seafood and agriculture producers
Cleantech and Agritech
Bio Graphene Solutions – Gary Van Dusen – Annapolis Royal
Graphene made from organic and renewable feedstocks
ADAPT Innovation – Young Chang – Truro
Agriculture image processing hardware for drones
Electric Owl Solutions – Margaret Dron – Halifax
Software to help grow food in urban environments and small-scale farms
myFlock – James Walsh – Kentville
Technology to reduce risk and operating inefficiencies in the poultry supply chain
Plasma Agricultural Solutions – Lord Abbey, GL Rao, NN Misra – Truro
Treatment to improve seed health and quality
BLUE-GREEN ROUND TWO
44 North – Calder Robinson, David Barclay, Emmanuelle Cook, Michael Beaudoin – Halifax
Navigation system to optimize ocean transit using underwater currents
Tracker Inventory Systems – Gavin Andrews, Matthew Pyne – Sydney
Automated inventory management for seafood and agriculture producers
Electric Owl Solutions – Margaret Dron – Halifax
Software to help grow food in urban environments and small-scale farms
myFlock – James Walsh – Kentville
Technology to reduce risk and operating inefficiencies in the poultry supply chain
Plasma Agricultural Solutions – Lord Abbey, GL Rao, NN Misra – Truro
Treatment to improve seed health and quality
START-UP YARD
Copsys Industries – Farzad Hashemi – Halifax
Corrosion management technology to protect assets and reduce maintenance
SeaChange Biochemistry – Brad Park – Halifax
Technology to convert sustainable feedstocks to green chemicals
Ocean Protection Engineering Group – Andrew MacDonald, Carr Hallett – Dartmouth
All-weather emergency system to tow ships in distress
Source: Entrevestor