Atlantic Canada has long existed on the periphery of Canada’s venture and growth capital landscape. Overshadowed by the gravitational pull of Toronto and Montréal, the region is often mischaracterized as smaller, slower, and less dynamic. Yet beneath that perception lies a starkly different reality: one defined not by risk, but by undercapitalization. A growing number of investors are beginning to recognize a simple but powerful truth. Atlantic Canada is not an emerging marke