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,

We’re asking all founders of Atlantic Canadian startups to fill in our survey, which we believe will help the startup community and support mental health.

We launched our survey yesterday, keeping it to just 15 questions so it can be completed in a couple of minutes. And we appreciate the founders who have already completed it, and would encourage others to do so as well.

For each completed

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation invested a total of $4.81 million in 21 startups in New Brunswick in its last fiscal year, according to the organization’s 2020 annual report.

The report, which was recently posted on the NBIF website, shows the foundation invested $3.78 million through its Venture Capital Fund in the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2020. It also invested $1.03 million

Today we are launching our survey to capture data on the Atlantic Canadian startup community in 2020, and we’re asking all founders in the region to take a few minutes to complete the 15-question survey.

We know how busy people are, so we have kept it as brief as possible. Filling it in creates three benefits.

First, it helps to produce meaningful metrics on the startup community, which results

The Nova Scotian government is contributing $5 million to Sandpiper Ventures, the first venture capital fund of the Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund.

The investment from the provincial government, announced on Friday, is a key step in the Women’s Venture Fund’s mission to launch a $20 million early-stage fund to invest in women led businesses, mainly in Atlantic Canada. Sandpiper expects to launch

Our Job of the Week column today showcases an opening for a Renewals Account Executive at Dash Hudson in Halifax.

Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for clients to manage, source and engage with the traffic of their photos and videos.

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