One doesn’t need to spend a lot of time in the Atlantic Canada startup space before they notice a lack of diversity. Yet, the idea that diversity drives innovation is almost universally accepted.
Founders belonging to diverse groups are used to the fact that there is hardly ever another person who looks like them in the rooms they occupy. This isn’t because diverse groups are not founding startups. On the contrary, according to a Startup Canada survey, 51 percent of entrepreneurs are women and 29 percent are visible minorities.
The absence of diversity can be attributed to a myriad reasons,