Michael Donovan speaks softly. After a day of enthusiastic speeches from entrepreneurs and vigorous networking sessions at the Startup Empire conference last week, you don’t expect to hear a soft tone.

The DHX Media chairman even has a microphone, but still, in the Park Lane Theatre No. 4, it’s hard to hear him speak—yet the audience is captivated.

Twelve years ago, Donovan founded DHX

Springboard Atlantic, the association that promotes the commercialization of Atlantic Canadian university research, will hold events in the coming weeks in conjunction with Invest Atlantic and the Big Data for Productivity Congress.

The organization will hold discussion about intellectual property as a valuable business asset on Tuesday from 8:30 to 11:30 am at the World Trade and Convention

Gathered in Halifax’s Park Lane Theatre, the Startup Empire attendees watched the screen. A movie wasn’t playing, but the conference’s presenting entrepreneurs explained their business strategies in a way that mirrors the movie-viewing experience: you see it in one place, but it is all around the world. 

Yesterday, Volta Labs presented Startup Empire, which concentrated on startup growth and scale. However, attendees were at all stages of their startups: ideation, implementation and growth.

Anna Foat knows how important growth is to startups: she was hired as one of the first

After realizing that most aboriginal clothing lines originate on the west coast, Patricia Barlow-Arcaro has launched EarthWalk Apparel to celebrate east coast Mi’kmaq culture.

Based in the designer’s Fredericton home, the EarthWalk Apparel line offers aboriginal contemporary clothing that incorporates traditional native symbols, colours and designs.

“There doesn’t seem to be a lot of east

With a new focus to its business, Moncton-based startup Ongozah is providing a link between charities and corporations, and producing 25 per cent monthly sales growth.

The company — whose name is the Swahili term for everyone moving in the same direction — recently decided its new business focus would be helping charities work more efficiently with corporations that allow their staff to

Startup Grind Halifax has announced its next event, which will feature the always entertaining and insightful Paul Singh as speaker, will be held Oct. 15.

Singh has served in senior capacities in such American funding and mentoring organizations as 1776, Disruption Corp. and 500 Startups.

The event will be held at the offices of McInnes Cooper in Purdy’s Wharf in Halifax beginning at 5 pm.

Invest Atlantic has announced 22 companies that will pitch in its three-tiered pitching event next Tuesday.

The conference, which will take place September 29 and 30 at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax, will feature some of the region’s leading business people, and investors from inside and outside Atlantic Canada.

For the first time, Invest Atlantic will divide its pitching

Though the Build Program companies pitching at the Propel ICT Demo Day all noted they were raising capital, they placed a greater emphasis on the revenue they’re gaining from bona fide customers.

The Build Program is the mentoring course for the most advanced companies in the regional accelerator, and all six of these startups were on the stage in Moncton. They are also all eligible for

Sean Wise was so impressed with the Launch Program pitches at the Propel ICT Demo Day on Tuesday that he wondered why he was there.

Appearing after the seed-stage companies delivered their presentations, the professor of entrepreneurship at Ryerson University and Dragon’s Den consultant showed up to deliver a short seminar on pitching. But the quality of the pitches made him ask whether he

The Nova Scotia Securities Commission has issued the following press release:

Crowdfunding Public Information Session in Truro

Halifax - Sept 22, 2015 -- The Nova Scotia Securities Commission is holding a free public information session on the new rules for the equity crowdfunding exemptions on Oct. 15.

The event will take place at the Nova Scotia Community College in Truro from noon until 2 p.m. in Salon C, 36 Arthur St.

The session is in partnership with the Financial and Consumer Services Commission in New Brunswick and PEI Securities Commission. Information will be given on the