Halifax in 2018 maintained its position as the cornerstone of the Atlantic Canadian startup community, and in the last two years the city’s ecosystem has deepened.
As we present segments from our 2018 Atlantic Canada Startup Data report, we’re breaking out Halifax as its own jurisdiction because it was home to 199 startups at the end of last year – almost two-fifths of the 550 companies we tracked.
And these companies booked some impressive numbers in 2018, such as raising $64.3 million in equity funding, from sources other than the stock market. They directly employed more than 2,100