Montreal Tech Watch

I’m not even sure if “raises” is the right word here, due to the unsually high amount (an understatement), but RadialPoint announced last week a $98 million investment by a private equity and buyout firm TA Associates. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although it’s certain this is not a complete buyout and TA [...]

Tungle, an online calendar scheduling service for teams (see previous article here), announced today a $5 million in series A funding led by CommonWealth Capital Ventures, with also existing investors, JLA Ventures and Desjardins Venture Capital also participating in the round. The startup raised initially $1.5 million back in May 2007 from both JLA and [...]

Since Akoha was publicly unveiled at TechCrunch50, you probably know now about Akoha and its team is trying to build: a social game where members are to give good deeds to friends, and where these friends have to play it forward, thanks to a mission card that traces the “good actions” chain. If this sounds [...]

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Austin Hill presented today at Techcrunch50 Akoha, a social gaming service for people who want to play it forward. He handled superbly the presentation, with a mix between personal stories, the demo, and also introducing the cards. The presentation was received very positively by the judging panel; and when they asked for details, Austin Hill [...]

Here are quick updates, for those who wondering about the little changes: Websites deleted from blogroll, due to lack of updates: mesheast.com blog.technomontreal.com Websites added to the blogroll: Bootup Labs, a startup incubator in Vancouver northgeek.com, covers new cell phones wirelessnorth, Canadian telecom industry watch,  Montreal New Tech, by Felipe Coimbra Bitcurrent, a resource for [...]

Thanks for everyone who came for the Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast. About 55 people came this morning which is a record for the event! SUN and the Sun Startups Essentials Canada program sponsored the breakfast. Sarah MacDonald, from embarkonit, an Ontarian management consulting company, explained they were touring Canada to present the SUN initiative to Canadian [...]

You can call it buzz; you can also call it a deafening endless stream of tweets; but Montreal is all about Akoha and Praized today. The 2 startups are in San Francisco at the Techcruch50 conference. Akoha is a finalist and due to give their first ever public presentation wednesday morning, in the Gaming session; [...]

Bloom Digital has launched officially late this week, with the announced goal to address the current issues in online advertising. The Bloom Digital team comes straight from Cossette, a leading integrated marketing agency, and as such, their team is composed of communication, advertising and marketing experts, as well as key technologists (Yves Poiré, Vlad Stesin, [...]

Praized has launched yesterday an iPhone version of the main portal hub, with a focus on search, and also top places near the user. The geo-localization feature is not yet implemented, but it shows a glimpse of a web application for finding local places on the move. In the same day, the startup also replaced [...]