Ocean Startup Project
About
The Ocean Startup Project is Canada Ocean Supercluster's first Innovation Ecosystem Project, a collaboration to create and grow high-quality ocean technology companies. Collaborators included Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) - Atlantic, Genesis, Invest NS (formerly Innovacorp), New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, PEI BioAlliance, Springboard Atlantic, COAST (Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies), and Technopole Maritime du Québec. Initially, the Ocean Startup Project will focus on interacting with entrepreneurs from industry and innovators from academia to identify ideas and companies with the potential to solve challenges facing the ocean sector. Following that funnel development, the Ocean Startup Project’s focus will shift to acceleration and incubation programs Three of the Ocean Startup Project’s activities involve cohorts: Lab2Market, CDL-Atlantic and the Ocean Startup Challenge. Lab2Market’s cohorts focus primarily on Canadian graduate students and their academic supervisors. CDL-Atlantic’s cohort focuses on ocean tech companies and will include up to 25 ventures. The Ocean Startup Challenge shortlists up to 30 companies to receive training and coaching, before selecting the final winners that form a smaller cohort that receives further support.
