According to data produced by LinkedIn, Atlantic Canadian innovation companies were on a hiring rampage last quarter.
Concrete Ventures CEO Patrick Hankinson posted an item online Tuesday night saying that LinkedIn data shows that Atlantic Canadian startups and high-growth innovation companies added about 600 jobs net in the April-to-June quarter. That was a gain of about 8 percent, bringing the total staff employed by these companies to about 8,000.
Hankinson is well known in the startup community as the founder and CEO of Complr, which he sold for more than $20 million in 2014. Last year,