Volta is happy to announce our collaboration with Grant Thornton LLP, a leader in accounting and advisory services, to help grow Canadian startups. The collaboration includes a permanent office for Grant Thornton on Volta’s Lobby Level. The new office space strengthens the support available for startups working out of Volta and will help the hub develop a […]
RBC and Volta, Canada’s East Coast innovation hub for entrepreneurs and innovators, have renewed their partnership to support Volta’s Women Taking Over the World With Tech (WTWT) program and the broader Atlantic Canadian innovation community. The partnership builds on RBC’s commitment to supporting Canadian women entrepreneurs and startup companies. “Programs like WTWT are instrumental in […]
Volta is thrilled to grow our community of innovators with the addition of eight new companies. With the official welcome of these companies, Volta is currently home to 32 technology startups. “As someone who has been a Volta Network Member for quite some time, I have seen firsthand how supportive the community is and I’m […]
More companies from outside Atlantic Canada are looking to the region for opportunities to grow. Having launched Corporate Membership just under two weeks ago, Volta is excited to welcome our first Out of Town member, VanHack. The Vancouver-based company is an online community with over 180,000 technology professionals who are interested and ready to work […]
As a university student, it’s hard enough to balance school work with extracurricular activities. So when you add launching a startup with managing everything you need to get done in the run of a semester, things can become overwhelming quickly. Even the most ambitious students struggle. Students often lack free time, money and experience, but […]
This week Volta launched a new Corporate Membership program to better connect organizations with our community of innovators. This announcement comes as we prepare to officially open our new 60,000 sq. ft. space in the heart of Halifax’s Innovation District. “Organizations in Atlantic Canada tend to be in the early stages of their innovation journeys […]
According to statistics, one in five Canadians experience some form of mental illness during their lifetime. But when it comes to entrepreneurs, the numbers are vastly different. According to Halifax-based The Mindset Project’s survey: 68.4% of entrepreneurs reported having experienced at least one period of anxiety, stress or depression lasting more than two weeks that […]
Are East Coast companies innovative enough? Some early data suggests there may be room for improvement. A recent analysis by Atlantic Canadian startup news site Entrevestor reviewed job postings for tech developers in Atlantic Canada in the first quarter of 2018. Specifically, Entrevestor looked at postings for roles that focused on leading technologies such as […]
By now you’ve probably heard us tease about a revamped Network Membership. If you haven’t, you can learn more here. In that post, we talked about changes, including introducing a co-working platform – one that could help us engage our community and deliver value in more ways than one. When we temporarily closed our space […]
McInnes Cooper, Atlantic Canada’s leading startup and growth stage law firm and Volta Labs, one of Canada’s largest innovation hubs, are embarking on a new corporate partnership to build on previous success, drive engagement within Volta’s community and better serve the region’s growing innovation economy. McInnes Cooper will join Volta in its new 60,000 sq. […]