The 3rd annual GROW Conference is returning this August to Vancouver, and we’ve secured 20 tickets for our Montreal audience at the sold out price of $295 ($100 off from the current price), thanks to our friends from dealmaker media. This is a gre...
The story of BelAir Networks is instructive on so many levels. We take pride in the outcome given our 2007-era $5.5 million financing, of course, but as with every good exit in our world, CEO Bernard Herscovich and his management team, the BelAir ...
This upcoming Friday and Saturday, we’ve got HackingHealth, the first event of its kind in Montreal. It’s presented as a hackathon, with the original recipe of gathering programmers for a day-long marathon, but with the additional of health profes...
Joe Greenwood is leading a new Ministry of Research and Innovation project that pulls together data to track Ontario’s startups. One of the first data sources to be tapped was the StartupNorth Index, which in conjunction with MaRS client data has ...
Early this week, iNovia Capital announced that experienced tech executive David Nault has joined the iNovia team, complementing the already excellent mix of talents in the firm. We all remember the Fund III announcement, and Chris Emergui has also...
Things have been quiet on the blog front, and I can’t even blame a lack of content. Dr. Roger Martin has provided grist for at least two blog opportunities all on his own. What I can report on is a couple of recently closed new transactions in Cal...
C2-MTL, an international business and creative conference is due this spring. It’s curated by Sid Lee and brought together with the collaboration with a plethora of partners, including Cirque du Soleil, with an impressive line-up of speakers. It a...
At Founders and Funders this week we took some time to interview Dan Debow. It was a bit of a love-in I admit but that is just because I really love how much passion Dan has for helping those around him. He has made a big difference in a lot of pe...
A new Modasuite venture, Frank & Oak has just launched this week a new service to deliver affordable and high-quality clothes to its customers. What’s interesting from other known made to measure sites like Modasuite or Indochino is the approach: ...
With Google Montreal, MTLStartupTalent announced yesterday evening a challenge open to anyone interested in solving a Montreal-specific problem. Interested participants are invited to register on the contest site (deadline: monday). The winning te...
Interesting my friends from Microsoft are hosting a screening of Ctrl Alt Compete which features our own Josh Sookman (LinkedIn, @jsookman) of Guardly and Brian Wong (LinkedIn, @brian_wong) of Kiip. It’s a documentary about building startups and t...
