An investor contacted me recently to take issue with a perpetual bee in the Atlantic Canadian bonnet — the perma-complaint that there’s no funding available to startups in the region.
I’ve heard it for years. So has this investor. As a result, he dove into the data in CrunchBase, the American databank affiliated with TechCrunch that has information on startup investments from around the world. The investor, who asked not to be named, wanted to find data that would determine what proportion of our startups received funding compared to (a) the global startup community, and (b) the Top 20 global startup communities (such as Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, etc.) as listed by the Startup Genome.
