When Ali Mousavi and Arash Helmi joined the Startup Visa program sponsored by Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp, it was not from their home country of Iran, but thanks to a South Korean startup competition.
Mousavi and Helmi are the co-founders of Magic Organ Cloner, or MOC Biotechnologies. In 2019, they were in Korea to compete in the BIXPO innovation conference’s invention fair, where they placed second.
Their technology for 3D printing medical implants and other items compatible with human biology -- “bioprinting” -- had already attracted enough attention that
