TruLeaf, the Halifax agricultural technology company, has turned to an innovative platform to raise its next round of funding.

The company that grows leafy greens in vertically stacked trays has launched a campaign on San Francisco’s AgFunder, a crowdfunding site for agricultural and agriculture technology investment, with the goal of raising US$2.65 million (C$3.52 million). TruLeaf has

There are just over two weeks left for Nova Scotian startups to enter the biennial I-3 Technology Startup Competition and have a shot at as much as $225,000 in development funding.

If that sounds like enough time to put it off, consider this: there are only 10 days left to get in your preliminary submission and get feedback from the organizers.

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia innovation agency, holds the competition every second year with the goal of encouraging aspiring entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into businesses as they go through the contest. The process includes feedback from

The Engage 2015 Conference, which will focus on global innovation, will take place on Nov. 9 and 10 at St. Mary’s University in Halifax.

The first Engage Conference in 2013 focused on exporting outside of the Maritimes and Canada, and the 2014 Conference focused on research and development. Delora Media owner and Engage organizer Mark Taylor said that this year’s conference will focus on

Global Ad Source, the St. John’s-based advertising database with over 30 million ads, has added a new insight-based feature to its services.

Formerly called Adfinitum, Global Ad Source originally offered a database of global advertising when it began in 2007. It later added weekly reporting to show its clients the campaigns of their competitors.

CEO Ed Clarke said that his clients wanted

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.