When Nancy Mathis agreed to be the 2015 Chair of Invest Atlantic, the largest networking event in the region for startups, entrepreneurs and investors, she had two conditions: one, the conference needed to scale itself, like the entrepreneurs it attracts; and two, Invest Atlantic needed to be regional, not just a Halifax event.

Conference Founder Bob Williamson agreed to Mathis’

The Nova Scotia Office of Immigration on Tuesday announced the introduction of two new business immigration streams to help attract international entrepreneurs and retain international university and college graduates. 

Both these new  streams – the Entrepreneur Stream and the International Graduate Entrepreneur Stream - have been carefully developed using the best practices of others around the globe, said a statement from the office.

“These new tools will be an integral part of the future growth of our economy and will foster entrepreneurship in Nova Scotia,” said the statement.

Of

Atlantic Hydrogen Inc., the Fredericton company whose technology extracted carbon from natural gas, has filed for voluntary bankruptcy and is searching for a buyer for its assets.

The company issued a statement Tuesday saying it was making the move pursuant to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act of Canada and had appointed Deloitte as the trustee for the proceedings. The AHI directors have

When Josh Davies learned the next nine-week programming course at CodeCore began in a few days, he cancelled his flight to Barcelona. And he’s glad he did.

Davies was taking a sabbatical from his IT job at Oracle’s Vancouver office because he wanted more creativity in his life and was planning to spend time in the Spanish city. But then he learned of CodeCore, an application and web

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