Montreal Tech Watch

Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association is planning their annual conference here in Montreal just at the end of the month, with Chris Arsenault (iNovia Capital) the chairman of the event . This year’s theme is “The face of change”, with panels, conferences, sessions about the topic, as well as dinners and cocktails, plus [...]

MSBi Valorisation, which works closely with research departments in 3 Québec universities, has announced last week they have invested in WideSail Technologies. If the name rings a bell to you, it’s also because it’s the old name of iNovia Capital. WideSail is a semiconductor spun-off from McGill University, and has developed new error correction technologies [...]

The BlackBerry Partners Fund is launching today, and it’s a $150 million fund specifically targeted for mobile startups. The fund is managed by JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners. It’s announced as stage-agnostic and also platform agnostic, meaning that they are willing to take a look and fund a mobile application that is not specifically [...]

It seems everyone agreed to schedule their events this week, and it’s the busiest week this year so far in Montréal. Here it is: MobileMondayMontreal, today from 5.30pm at la SAT, 1195 bvd St-Laurent, for people involved in the mobile industry. Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast, tomorrow from 9am, at Bistro ETC, 1291 bvd Mont-Royal Est, [...]

Company: BroadSign Position: Operating System Specialist Responsibilites and Tasks: BroadSign International is a Montreal-based rapidly growing digital signage software-as-a-service provider that is looking for an technology enthusiast to architect, build and maintain what we are calling the BOSS (BroadSign Operating System Service). The BOSS is a remotely upgradeable bare-bones version of Ubuntu 7.10 that is [...]

The 2nd edition of StartupCampMontreal is due this upcoming thursday at la SAT, May 15th, from 6.00pm. The event is dedicated to technology startups, the main feature being 5 new startups pitching the crowd about their product and business plans. You can view here a report about the first edition. This time, we will have: [...]

Codefest is a 3-day event due next week, from May 16th to May 18th. The event’s tagline is “2 days to optimize and improve your favorite free / Open Source project”. I have been to the last codefest and here is a glimpse of the event: The last Codefest gathered consultants, programmers from various IT [...]

Company: Inverse Position: Senior software developer Responsibilites and Tasks: Your main responsibilities will be to contribute to the development of the SOGo solution while participating in the deployment and support of clients groupware solutions. Required Knoweledge: • Bachelor or master degree in computer science or computer engineering or equivalent professional experience • Excellent knowledge of [...]

Videorix is a new online service that allows video content producers to look for potential ads for their videos. Videorix allows companies and brands to create a logo and a tagline, that video producers can include at the beginning of their video. In the current system, the producer is paid by video, and not by [...]

OZ received this week $10 million funding from Wellington Fund, a Toronto-based fund specialized in venture debts for growing companies. OZ provides Instant Messenging plus many other applications such as mobile email or mobile social presence. You might have never heard of the company, because they sell the solution directly to wireless carries, such as [...]