Two Atlantic Canadian startups have been accepted into international programs for startups.

CropMind of Fredericton was named this week to the latest cohort of Techstars, joining the Build in Tulsa Techstars program. And Halifax’s QuickFacts has been selected to attend InsurTech NY’s InsurTech Match program in New York on Sept. 17–18.

CropMind was co-founded by Damilare O. Odumosu and Rilwan Shokunbi, both of whom are graduates of the Masters of Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program at University of New Brunswick. They’ve developed a company that helps farmers of such crops as apples and grapes to predict early in the growing season what their total crop will be.

Earlier this year, CropMind closed a $500,000 funding round, led by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and BKR Capital. The company also graduated recently from the Accelerate Tech program offered by the Tribe Network. 

Co-founded by Christy and Jeff Barsalou, QuickFacts offers a platform that lets insurance brokers view packages from competing insurers side by side for easy comparison. The company says it can reduce the time brokers spend searching for information by 10 to 20 times. It also says the platform offers brokers more depth of information than competitors.

“This opportunity means a lot for QuickFacts as we continue to bring our solution to the U.S. market,” said Christy Barsalou, the company’s CEO, in a LinkedIn post. “I’m excited to foster conversations with carriers, brokers, and mentors about how we can support agencies and make their work easier and faster.”

The company, a member of the Atlantic FinTech community, raised $2 million in August 2024, the Barsalous identified New York as the beachhead for their coming U.S. expansion.