With funding for many small-town startups languishing in the doldrums, rural innovation hub IGNITE is testing a new platform to match companies with investors, in hopes of making more capital available to entrepreneurs.
Talenca is being developed by IGNITE, with help from the engineering team at Yarmouth, NS-based e-commerce startup GlobalVillages, also an IGNITE resident company. The system will host a database of companies looking for financial backing, along with accounts for prospective angel investors.
The platform is in beta testing, with 25 companies slated to be signed up by Friday