We’re delighted today to launch our spring Entrevestor Intelligence report on Atlantic Canada, which focuses the growth of new startups, and the deal that sparked the startup craze in the region.

As we’re reporting today, this supplement shows that Atlantic Canada saw a surge in company formation in 2015. By our count, there were 93 new startups launched last year. That boosted the entire number of startups in the region to 355 – an increase of 24 percent over the year before. Check out the tremendous infographic by our artist, Roxanna Boers.

These are, of course, preliminary numbers and we will refine them as we develop the databank. (To help us, we’d ask all Atlantic Canadian startups to take two to three minutes and complete our latest survey.)

The cover story of the Entrevestor Intelligence report looks back at the deal that sparked the mania for startups in the region – the exit of Radian6. We just passed the fifth anniversary of this landmark deal, and Mark Taylor talks with the main players in the company, asking them what the deal meant.

In other articles, we look at a key crowdfunding campaign that is being watched across the country, and the new national Natural Products incubator that is headquartered in Prince Edward Island. Gerard Buckley, the Founding Partner of Jaguar Capital, weighs in with advice on structuring boards of directors or advisers to ensure maximum performance.

You can download the report here, and hard copies will be available soon in startup hubs around the region. This is the twelfth Entrevestor Intelligence we've put out in Atlantic Canada, and please also check out the report we put out on the booming tech community in Kitchener-Waterloo.