Kathryn Lockhart has a vision for Atlantic Canada: A farm of baby unicorns.
Lockhart is almost through her second month as Chief Executive of the regional tech accelerator Propel, and she’s good with its long-term goal of producing an Atlantic Canadian tech unicorn. (A unicorn is a company with a $1billion valuation.)
But in the medium-term, she’d like the region to aim to produce several mega-potential companies that are on their way to unicorn-ship.
“Everyone in this space is talking about the next unicorn,” said Lockhart in an interview. “I’d love to have a shared goal of producing baby