We’re calling on all East Coast startups to complete our latest quick-and-confidential Atlantic Canadian startup survey, which is the backbone of our coming 2025 Entrevestor Atlantic Canada Startup Data report.

The startup report provides a benchmark used by governments and support organizations for the entire innovation sector in the region. Entrevestor is completely independent, absolutely agnostic in terms of sector or jurisdiction, so we provide an objective view of what’s happening in our sector.

Each year for the past decade, we’ve launched our survey to gauge the state of the startup community. It’s a mere 10 questions so founders don’t have to spend a lot of time on it, and it's 100 percent confidential. All data is aggregated. We’re hoping as many founders as possible can take about three minutes to fill it out.

You can find the survey by clicking on this image:

Why should you take time from your ferociously busy schedule to complete the survey? Two reasons:

First, it helps to produce meaningful metrics on the startup community, which results in better programs. Policy-makers and support organizations rely on our Atlantic Canadian Startup Data report as the benchmark for this segment of the economy. Your participation helps us collect the best data possible. And once again this year, the report will be open to the public, although all information provided is confidential and anonymous and we only publish aggregated data. In 2022, for example, 352 people downloaded the report from our website, which is striking penetration when you consider the size of our ecosystem.

Second, it helps Entrevestor provide free news on and for our community. The startup data report is a pillar of our business model, and it means we can continue to report on what’s happening in the startup world.

For responses to be accepted, founders need to meet our three criteria for a startup: 1. An Atlantic Canadian-owned company; 2. Commercializing innovation; and 3. Making a product for a global market.

As we have said, your responses to the survey will be 100 percent confidential. We do NOT publish data on individual companies, only aggregated data. If there is a particular question you feel uncomfortable answering, please just leave it blank.

This post marks the beginning of our campaign to encourage readers to complete the survey – a bit earlier than in previous years, as we want to get the report out earlier than in the past. (We’ve asked for year-end data for employment and full-calendar-year data for revenue and funding. We assume anyone filling in the survey this month will have a good idea of what the year-end figures will look like.)

We apologize in advance if it’s bothersome, but it’s critical for us to collect as much data as possible.

By taking just a few minutes to answer these questions, you can support Entrevestor’s work and develop important metrics for the community.

Please contact me at peter@entrevestor.com with any queries.

Thank you.