Montreal Tech Watch

Austin Hill and Patrick Lauzon are hosting the 2nd Founders&Funders dinner. It’s scheduled May 14th, with 100 attendees planned, with each ticket costing $100.

A Founders and funders dinner gathers startup founders, venture capitalists, angel investors with the objective of meeting new business partners, or who knows, initiate an investment between an entrepreneur and an investor.

For the first event, I worked on the web2.0 map of Montréal, an idea which was started off by Austin Hill. Here are my thoughts about the first event, although strictly speaking, it’s not a true event report, but more an assessement of the event’s contribution to the startup scene in Montreal. It was an undeniable success, an event where every major actor of the startup scene should aspire to go to.

Unlike the open source technology events, where anyone and their friends can “join the party”, Founders & Funders dinners are private events, with attendees screened by the organizers. You will have chances to attend it if you are starting a solid startup/technology company. I guess you can think of it as an upscale Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast; without service providers, with definetely more VCs — the sort you would never meet in an informal setting; and where every other person is either a CEO, CTO, a venture partner or an entrepreneur in residence.

Unlike the previous event though, there is a registration form if you think you apply.
This is an effort to open up the event. In addition, they will also host an open after-hour cocktail for those who won’t make it to the dinner:

Given the interest we received after the first event and the fact that we won’t be able to invite everyone who has expressed interest to the dinner. As a result we are also going to be hosting an after dinner open cocktail networking (A nice roof top terrace party). The networking event will cost $20 and include two drink tickets.