The startup community is entering 2023 on uncertain footing, with a faltering global economy and contracting venture capital markets raising questions about young companies’ near-term prospects.

But an evolving startup support ecosystem and optimistic early signs in market data also point to opportunity.

Here are some of the questions we’ll be looking to answer this year:

What will the future

In the space of just eight months, Charlottetown video game developer Iron Fox Games has grown to have a staff of 21 people and is already running in the black.

Founded by industry veterans Ryan Filsinger and Chris Gallant, who previously developed the popular mobile game The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Iron Fox’s team comprises mostly the duo’s former collaborators and has so-far been an entirely

Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to its Early Stage Commercialization Fund for university research, rolling over a program from the days of Innovacorp.

The fund offers startups up to $50,000 for assessing their products’ market potential, developing go-to-market strategies and other planning, finishing a proof-of-concept, prototyping and leveraging other funds.

This time, Invest

The University of New Brunswick will build a new, $38 million Health and Social Innovation Centre at its Saint John campus as part of the provincial government’s larger bid to revamp its flagging healthcare system with the help of innovative practices and technologies.

The New Brunswick government will provide $12 million of funding and the federal government $15.2 million, with UNB paying the

In a bid to address the structural factors that observers have said contributed to 2022’s innovation economy labour shortage, industry group Digital Nova Scotia is spearheading a new information technology jobs training program across the four Atlantic provinces.

Skills for Hire, originally dubbed Skills for Success when the federal government announced it in August, will spend $3.7 million of

Springboard Atlantic has announced that it will lead Atlantic IP, the regional component of a new federal program that will help entrepreneurs develop, leverage and protect their intellectual property.

The federal government unveiled its Elevate IP program in the 2021 budget, saying it would cost $90 million over four years and help Canadian startups to understand how to profit from their IP.

As we do each year, we're taking off the week between Christmas and New Year's. So this is our last day of publishing until Jan. 3. 

It's been a fantastic year, and we would like to thank all our readers and clients for making it so great. In 2022, we held our first Entrevestor Live as an in person event and deepened our bluetech coverage. We'll have lots of news about these initiatives in the

The past year has been one of significant change for the East Coast startup ecosystem, as a tumultous global economy made its presence felt in Atlantic Canada. Here’s a look back at some of the biggest innovation stories of 2022:

Many top-performing startups raised big.

One of this year’s top funding stories was the same as last year: Dartmouth-based advanced materials startup Meta Material

Industry group TechNL has announced the creation of a new innovation hub in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, for companies with remote operations.

The project is funded jointly by the federal government via the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency with $2.5 million over the next three years and the provincial government providing $7.1 million over the next six years. The hub will include

We launched Entrevestor Live last year to showcase the best and the brightest of Atlantic Canadian startups, and now we've produced a video to highlight some of these companies. 

If you didn't have an opportunity to join us on October 20, this is your chance to check out some of the leading innovation-driven scale-ups in the region. 

Our program centred around fireside chats with three of the