When Ross Simmonds wrote an opinion piece for Entrevestor this month, he called for data on inclusivity in the Atlantic Canada startup community – a demand we’re now trying to meet.
An examination of the Entrevestor Databank indicates that Black and Indigenous communities from Atlantic Canada are under-represented in the region’s startup sector. I say “indicates” because we haven’t canvassed founders or CEOs on their ethnic roots so we may have missed some founders, and the matter is more complicated than it first appears.
Our study of 554 startups in the region shows that 0.7 percent of
