Six innovator teams have joined Phase 3 of MagQuest, a $2.1 million competition to advance how we measure Earth’s magnetic field. With MagQuest, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is accelerating novel approaches to geomagnetic data collection for the World Magnetic Model. Over the next several months, the six teams will iterate and refine their designs and testing plans [...]

There have been 634 proposals submitted to 16 challenges from 465 different participants. The following table outlines the number of applicants from different areas, the amount of proposals submitted and the number of contracts issued. Here are the results: Participants Proposals Contracts Academia 21.3% 23.5% Small & Medium Industry (< 500) 59.6% 54.9% Large Industry [...]

SBQuantum has been accepted into the quantum stream of the University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab programme. We are excited to meet the mentors and our fellow quantum entrepreneurs in this deep tech incubator programme!​​​​​​​

Today, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) announced 10 winners in the first phase of MagQuest, a $1.2 million global open innovation challenge to advance how we measure Earth’s magnetic field. The next phase of the competition is now accepting detailed designs for geomagnetic data collection methodologies for the World Magnetic Model. Phase 2 is open to solvers from Phase [...]

Congratulations to the winners of the CED Fast Forward Challenge! We are delighted today to announce the names of the 10 innovative start-ups that were proclaimed the winners of the first CED Fast Forward Challenge. They are: CANN Forecast Software Inc. Cigogne Technologies Inc. Femtum Inc. Laboratoire Innodal Puzzle Medical Devices Inc. Pyrocycle SB Technologies [...]