We have a request for all new startups in Atlantic Canada: let us know you’re out there.

We’re now developing our list of startups and high-growth companies in Atlantic Canada – all those that were active as of Jan. 31, 2015. We have a list of about 300 companies that we’re familiar with. But the nature of the startup world is that companies are always being formed. So we want to know about new companies in the community.

This list of companies is the backbone of the Entrevestor Databank. In a few weeks, we will be surveying all the companies and come up with metrics on the size and performance of Atlantic Canadian startups. Most of this gets published free on Entrevestor, and we also prepare reports for clients. It helps us to finance the daily news we provide for the startup community.

If you are a new startup, please email me at peter@entrevestor.com and let me know the company name, location, sector, year founded and CEO.   

Of course, there are grey areas on what constitutes a startup, so here are the criteria:

You have to be actively working on your company. That doesn’t mean the company has to have paid employees. But a person or team has to be working each week on the project and have to be well into customer discovery and product development. It can’t just be a hobby. And it can’t be something you were working on last year and may return to one day.
It has to be owned by at least one Atlantic Canadian. We want companies based here. We will include companies that have at least one co-founder in the region. We won’t include companies based elsewhere that have some developers working on the East Coast.
The company must be developing proprietary technology for the global market. You have to be working on a product. Service companies and companies serving the local market would not be included.

If you meet these criteria and haven’t been mentioned in Entrevestor before, please shoot me an email. You should do this for three reasons: first, it means we’ll know about you when your company reaches the stage that it merits press coverage; second, our reports are read by decision makers, and the better our information the more impact it has on policies for startups; and third, this helps us to continue to report on the Atlantic Canadian startup community. And we believe that helps the whole community.