"Congratulations to LeadSift, developers of a technology that generates sales leads by mining social media, which was yesterday (November 7, 2012) named as one of the most enterprising new companies in digital marketing.

The award was part of the prestigious Ad:Tech New York digital marketing event. LeadSift was one of four companies chosen from hundreds of applicants as a finalist in the competition’s Data & Analytics category. The company pitched live onstage at Ad:Tech and took home top honours in its category. As part of the prize, the company will have the chance to pitch in-house to General Electric at a later date.

LeadSift helps sales and marketing professionals identify and pursue business leads more efficiently. The proprietary technology analyzes chatter from popular social media streams like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and blogs, and turns the data into accurate and targeted local leads for sales.

Businesses will soon be able to generate sales leads by mining social media with new technology created by Nova Scotia-based LeadSift.

LeadSift helps sales and marketing professionals identify and pursue business leads more efficiently using proprietary technology that analyzes chatter from popular social media streams like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and blogs, turning the data into accurate and targeted local leads for sales.

People will soon be able to transfer documents online more securely and easily with a new product created by a Nova Scotia company. Through Innovacorp, the province has invested $250,000 in venture capital in TitanFile Inc. to help bring their new product to market.

A Nova Scotia company developing an indoor farming system for leafy greens is enhancing its product with an investment from the province.

TruLeaf has secured $250,000 in venture capital from Innovacorp. The company's TruLeaf SmartPlant System is a multi-layer plant farm that grows fresh produce anywhere in the world, regardless of environment, 365 days a year. The system integrates growing technologies in a controlled environment to grow high-quality, predictable-yield, price-competitive leafy greens.

A Halifax biomedical company on a mission to fight superbugs is enhancing its product development with an investment from the province.

DeNovaMed Inc. has secured $500,000 in venture capital from Innovacorp.  

"Imagine, a new generation of antibiotics, developed here in Nova Scotia, to combat some of the world's deadliest diseases," said Economic and Rural Development and Tourism Minister Percy Paris. "This investment supports the innovation and competitiveness priorities of the jobsHere plan to grow our economy, to say nothing of what it could mean to our health and wellbeing one day."

DeNovaMed is using computer-aided drug design to develop a new class of compounds that could treat infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria, or superbugs. The new antibiotics will target a particularly dangerous superbug known as MRSA, which often causes a skin infection that can rapidly spread to other organs in the body, is a serious problem in hospitals, and is now being observed in communities at an alarming rate.

"We're in the early stages of curing animals of infectious disease and expect to be ready for clinical trials starting two years from now," said Chris McMaster, DeNovaMed founder and president. "This investment will allow us to hire additional staff and advance through the research and development process. We look forward to being able to deliver on the clinical promise of our innovation."

We at TitanFile Inc. have received some very exciting news.  The company has recently learned it has secured a $250,000 investment from Innovacorp, a group committed to helping local companies grow and succeed in the global market place.

This investment is the latest amongst a number of exciting and promising milestones for us.  Earlier this year TitanFile won the Nova Scotia Co-operative Council’s Best Big Idea competition for best entrepreneurial idea, in Texas we won an award in the category of new ventures in the cloud-computing industry and presented at the 2011 DemoCamp in Toronto.  This year we will host the Halifax DemoCamp on September 23, 2011 (for more information about the Halifax DemoCamp please visit the website here).

Congratulations TitanFile!