The monthly tech entrepreneur breakfast is next tuesday, with a new location, at Boccacinos, 1251 Av. McGill College, from 8am to 10am. As always, it’s brought to you by Ben Yoskovitz (Standoutjobs), with support from Tanya (Praized), and me (Montreal Tech Watch). The last breakfast had around 35/40 attendees, which is extraordinary since it was [...]
Shooting user-produced videos with Xtranormal
The Xtranormal startup, which received a lot of attention a while ago, launched in beta (private) mode yesterday. Like they previously announced, the interface to create videos is very simple to use, you just have to drag and drop animations, camera moves, gestures etc. You setup a scene first, choosing the look of characters, as [...]
Inscape Software announces $7m in Series B funding
Inscape Software, a SaaS HR provider, has secured yesterday Sept 3rd a $7 million funding. The deal was lead by Solidarity Fund QFL, a labor-sponsored investment fund. Previous investors in the startup, namely Rho Canada Ventures, and Garage Technology ventures Canada also participated in the round. Inscape Software was formerly known as HR Alloy, and [...]
Job Listing: Software Developer at 2XM Labs
Company: 2XM Labs Position: Software Developer Responsibilites and Tasks: We are looking for brilliant and motivated individuals to work on a cutting-edge 3D medical imaging application. The developers will have to build a high-performance and high-quality application for visualizing, manipulating and editing large imaging datasets in 3D, using mostly C++ and OpenGL. We offer a very [...]
Upcoming: NewTech Meetup, Sep. 2nd
Felipe Coimbra, an entrepreneur moving from Boulder, Colorado, is launching monthly NewTech meetups in Montreal. There are already NewTech events in Silicon Valley, Boulder, and also San Francisco, and they appear to me as a light version of startupcamps. There’s a website here with videos of the presentations if you want to get a sense [...]
