Corey Ellis

Ottawa’s The Growcer raises $3M from investors including Jeff York, Jeff Westeinde

Ottawa

Ottawa-based vertical farming company The Growcer has raised $3 million in Series A financing to accelerate the company’s growth.

Techopia Live: Growcer ready to flourish in 2024

Techopia, Ottawa Business Journal Podcasts

Growcer co-founders Corey Ellis and Alida Burke are determined to improve food security, especially for Indigenous communities in Canada’s North, through innovation in agriculture.

The Growcer’s hydroponics tech wows customers – and SheBoot pitchfest judges

Techopia

Co-founder Alida Burke says orders for firm’s indoor mini-farms that grow leafy greens and herbs are pouring in as supply chain bottlenecks and surging transportation

The Growcer signs produce supply deal with university food services firm Chartwells

Techopia

Ottawa-based hydroponics startup The Growcer will soon be installing its high-tech system for growing fruits and vegetables at colleges and universities across Canada. The three-year-old

Dragons’ Den holding auditions for Ottawa entrepreneurs in March

Techopia

Ordinarily the threat of dragons roaming the countryside and descending onto unwitting cities is enough to send townsfolk heading for the hills, but an upcoming

Ottawa startup The Growcer triumphs on Dragons’ Den

Techopia

Friends, family and local business members gathered at Bayview Yards on Thursday evening to watch one of Ottawa’s rising entrepreneurial duos take on the Dragons’

Ottawa startups develop low-cost prototypes at an expert maker’s pace

Techopia

For the past year, startups incubated at Bayview Yards have worked just down the hall from a makerspace and digital media lab. MadeMill has been

Techopia Live: Hydroponics firm the Growcer returns food security to Canada’s north

Techopia

Ahead of this week’s Design Day at the University of Ottawa, Techopia Live spoke to one of the event’s star alumni, an Ottawa-based hydroponics system

Ottawa hydroponics startup The Growcer sees growth opportunity in fresh food

Ottawa

When students Alida Burke and Corey Ellis were on a visit to Nunavut two years ago to research ideas for social entrepreneurship in northern communities,