Volta, Canada’s East Coast Innovation Hub, and Microsoft for Startups Canada announce strategic partnership to support the growth and development of Eastern Canadian startups to help them accelerate, grow and scale. Through various joint initiatives, events and access to technology, this partnership aims to bring the Microsoft for Startups program, expertise and resources to the […]
Volta, Canada’s East Coast Innovation Hub, is celebrating the one year anniversary of its big expansion. The hub tripled in size in the summer of 2018, and continues to grow. Volta now has 43 Resident Companies, six service partners, three Innovation Outposts, with more than 400 people working out of the offices, and has introduced […]
At a Volta Founders dinners, I am usually met with a lot of puzzled faces and the same, recurring questions, like: “They let corporates come to this?” and “What do you guys do anyway? You just build games, right?” I totally get it – what does a ‘corporate’ such as myself, have to do at […]
Volta, Canada’s East Coast Innovation Hub, officially welcomed five new Resident Companies to their community of innovators. With these new additions, Volta now has 43 companies working out of the innovation hub’s space. New Residents joining Volta include Binogi, an education platform that creates easy, animated lessons and quizzes so students can have fun, learn […]
Atlantic Canada’s youth and newcomers have a few unique similarities: they infuse our communities with creativity and diversity, and are critical to our region’s future growth and prosperity. But unfortunately, emphasis on youth and newcomers in Atlantic Canada has often focused on the negative impacts of outmigration and poor retention rates. Instead, it should focus […]
Imagine you’ve worked nearly your whole life for one company – you excel at your role, love the industry, and plan to work there until you retire. Then, one day you arrive at work to learn you no longer have a job. Downsizing, lack of demand, new industry regulations or moving the company altogether – […]
Throwing money at a non-profit has traditionally been the way businesses give back to their communities. Corporate sponsorships, paid volunteer time, or placing a donation container at the company’s reception desk used to do the trick. But, in an economy where consumers and employees are more socially-conscious than ever before, and where the success of […]
Gone are the days where students accept passively sitting in an auditorium, listening to a professor drone on as their post-secondary experience. Today’s students are more active on their campuses and in their communities than ever before. As a result, universities are engaging students by nurturing entrepreneurial thinking and providing more opportunities to build skills that […]
Building on Canada’s competitive advantages such as its strong export potential, its rapidly developing innovation ecosystem, and its skilled workforce, will help create regional economic prosperity and good, middle-class jobs. That is why the Government of Canada is enabling Volta to provide targeted programming to Atlantic Canadian startups as they move from early-stage to growth-stage, […]
The line between technology product startups and consumer product startups is blurring. At Barrington Edge, we believe that this blurring represents a significant opportunity for Atlantic Canadian consumer packaged goods (CPG) startups, but in order to seize the opportunity, we need to better understand the industry drivers. In this post, we want to briefly examine […]