Founders are responding to our request to fill out our survey, and we had a flood of responses Friday from the burgeoning startup community in Cape Breton. 

We've been getting responses from across the region, but we were surprised by the activity in Cape Breton late last week. Many thanks to all the respondents, please keep them coming. 

What's really great about the surveys we've collected

Venn Innovation has named Tammy Godfrey Sauveur as the first female Chair of its Board of Directors, and named three women to its board.

Godfrey Sauveur, who is Senior Director of People and Transformation at gambling machine maker IGT, succeeds Pablo Asiron, Director of Business Development for Europe at mCloud Technologies Corp., as Chair. Venn also said Ken LeBlanc, the Founder and CEO of

Talem Health Analytics, which makes software for auto insurers, has closed a $2.3 million equity funding round led by Build Ventures, which will allow the Sydney-based company  to extend its reach in the insurance industry.

The company issued a statement announcing the round on Thursday, adding that investors in the round included Halifax-based Innovacorp, the HOLT Accelerator in Montreal, and

A multi-user marine testing platform, dubbed Stella Maris, is taking shape at the Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship in Dartmouth.

The platform will help oceantech firms develop, test and commercialize marine sensor technologies.

“With the Stella Maris, COVE companies are developing advanced, high-value technologies that will reach global markets,” said Melanie Nadeau, Chief

Nautel, the Nova Scotia-based maker of radio transmitters, has acquired French technology companies Digidia and Kenta to expand its offerings of products in the broadcast and maritime communications sectors.

The Hackett’s Cove-based company announced the purchase of the companies, both based in northwestern France, on Wednesday, but did not reveal the price it paid. It added that Kenta is owned

The Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2020 eked out its weakest growth in at least seven years as the pandemic resulted in fewer new companies and more failures.

This is the preliminary picture of the East Coast startup community that we’ve drawn from the 2020 Entrevestor Databank. Given the uncertainty created by the pandemic, we’re releasing preliminary data as quickly as we can this

Saeed El-Darahali, President and CEO of Dartmouth-based marketing automation company SimplyCast, has added new appointments to the number of boards he sits on.

El-Darahali has been appointed to the National Research Council of Canada, the Black Business Initiative, Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia, the Transition Team for the Sobey School of Business and the YMCA Philanthropic Work

Having completed its first full year, the Ocean Startup Project is gearing up to increase its work in Year 2 with a mission of producing more ocean-related startups in the region and country.

The project is a collaboration between a range of groups in all four Atlantic Provinces, and it has three main programs that nurture early-stage oceantech startups and prepare them for more advanced

We see the Entrevestor Survey as a community project, with founders providing us with data while we in turn share what we learn with the community.

We’re on Day 3 of our campaign to have founders of Atlantic Canadian innovation-driven startups complete our survey, which is quick and confidential. We promise that founders and support organizations will once again benefit from this collaborative

Four Nova Scotian companies have been selected to receive as much as $40,000 each in the GreenShoots program, which offers guidance to agriculture, food, bioproducts, cleantech and related companies.

GreenShoots – which is organized by Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia Innovation Hub and Guelph, Ont.-based Bioenterprise Corporation – is a competition for early-stage companies in the agri-technology,