We have an urgent need for young companies to complete our short, confidential survey so we can get an accurate picture of whether the Atlantic Canada startup community is growing or shrinking.

We’ve been working on our startup databank and have noticed a large number of failures for the second year in a row. What we haven’t found is a corresponding number of company launches – new companies coming in to replenish the stock of innovation-driven companies.

We’re making an extra effort to ask the founders or CEOs of young companies – those founded in 2022, 2023 or 2024 – to take five minutes to fill in our 10-question survey. It will let us know your company has launched, and provide a few more details for our analysis.

If you’re a CEO, please take a few minutes to complete the Entrevestor survey, which you can find by clicking on this image.

Each year, Entrevestor publishes the Atlantic Canada Startup Data report to give founders, investors and policy-makers the clearest picture possible of what is happening in Atlantic Canada’s innovation economy. Decision-makers read our report, so it’s vital that we get an accurate picture of how many companies are in the community.

While we hope all startup leaders will fill in the survey, we also hope people in BAIs will encourage the companies they work with to do so. It’s not good for anyone if we under-report how many companies are in the startup community.

We know CEOs are busy, and they’re pestered repeatedly to fill out forms, so we keep our survey as short as possible. All the answers are 100-percent confidential, and you can skip any question you’re uncomfortable with.

We’re pushing hard this month to get as many survey responses as possible, and have begin contacting people directly. Please take just a few minutes to complete the survey so that all members of the ecosystem will understand the dynamics at work in our community.