Invest Nova Scotia Venture Capital Investments

Invest Nova Scotia's venture capital investments through the Nova Scotia First Fund are listed in this dataset. It details equity investments in early-stage deep technology startups within the province. The data includes the recipient company, investment amount, fiscal year, and a description of the investment.

Use Cases

• Analyzing public venture capital allocation by Fiscal Year and Investment Amount.
• Tracking recipient Companies and their associated Investment Amounts.
• Evaluating investment focus areas by examining the Description field.
• Assessing the scale of government-backed startup funding per Company.

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Open Canada signals official importance and accessibility.
• Data is explicitly tied to a specific government fund, the Nova Scotia First Fund (NSFF), providing clear provenance.
• The dataset structure is simple and consistent, with four clear columns: Description, Company, Investment Amount, Fiscal Year.

Limitations

• Key metadata like row count, dataset size, and author are missing or conflicting across sources.
• The license is listed as OGL-CA-2.0 on some sources but is 'None' on others, creating uncertainty.
• The description is identical across platforms, suggesting limited supplementary documentation.

Provenance

Source

Invest Nova Scotia, Government of Nova Scotia

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official investment records of the Nova Scotia First Fund.

Freshness

2026-04-17 15:31:56.412867

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada