SkySquirrel, the Halifax startup that uses drones to improve yields in vineyards, is gearing up to launch a new product in 2016 that will help attack a persistent problem in the European wine industry.

SkySquirrel’s drones survey and collect

Adopting a strategy to maintain its fund without fresh investment, GrowthWorks Atlantic has borrowed $1.5 million to cover operating costs and adopted a plan to distribute funds to its shareholders over time.

The Halifax-based venture capital

The DMZ at Ryerson University is looking for startups in Kitchener-Waterloo interested in applying for the Next Big Idea Contest, which the university is organizing in partnership with Innovation Birmingham in the U.K.

The contest is open to

Michael Donovan, Executive Chairman of Halifax- and Toronto-based DHX Media Ltd., has been named Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year by the global consultancy EY.

EY said in a statement that Donovan, who heads a global film and television company

The Velocity Fund has handed four more companies at least $25,000 each to help with their development.

As it does each school term, Velocity, the University of Waterloo’s accelerator, donated money to the best companies in its accelerator

A Nova Scotian who focuses on making individuals aware of their behaviour around money has received a boost after being recognized by a group that works to promote female entrepreneurs.

The SheEO movement’s Radical Generosity initiative helps

Communitech and Velocity have announced expansion plans under which they will take up the space being vacated by Google in the Lang Tannery and support more startups and high-growth companies.

Communitech, Kitchener-Waterloo’s multifaceted

Atlanta’s Courion, which helps identify users online, has paid an undisclosed price to buy Halifax’s SecureReset, which has developed two products for simplifying user passwords and authentication.

SecureReset was owned by the entrepreneurial

Whether you’re seeking funding or looking for customers, founder thought leadership is often an untapped tactic for growing your startup. Here’s how to get started painlessly.

Marketing yourself as an authority (or better yet, an influencer)

Volta, the Halifax startup hub, is looking for a new Chief Executive Officer.

Jevon MacDonald, the founder and board member of the facility, said this week that Volta is searching for someone who can oversee the daily operations of the

Iain Klugman, the CEO of Communitech, has been awarded the 2015 Startup Canada Award for Entrepreneur Promotion.

Klugman is the driving force behind an organization that is not so much an accelerator as a diversified ecosystem all founded around

RtTech Software of Moncton and 17-year-old Alex Gillis, the CEO of Halifax-based Bitness.io, have won national 2015 Startup Canada Awards.

The Ottawa-based organization announced Tuesday that RtTech, an Industrial Internet of Things company, had