The recent Quebec provincial budget included a range of announcements that represent the most significant set of commitments ever done by any provincial government (or to my knowledge state government) to support entrepreneurship. To help shed some light on the announcement and what it means for Canadian entrepreneurs, I asked my partner at iNovia Capital, [...]
FlowVentures announces first investment in Symtext
FlowVentures has announced their first investment in 2009, in a Toronto-based startup named Symtext Symtext allows the creation of customized learning material, from different sources, as opposed to traditional text books which may have outdated and non-interactive material. As you may (or not) know, Flow Ventures provides both angel investing as well as direct operational [...]
CoolIT Systems Closes $6.2 Million financing led by iNovia Capital
CoolIT Systems and iNovia Capital announced last week the closing of a $6.2 million financing. CoolIT Systems designs advanced cooling solutions for PCs, mainly liquid cooling for CPUs. They’ve had good press coverage at the last CES, especially amongst gamers’ magazine and specialized websites such as the ones geared at overclockers. Plans on how CoolIT [...]
March StartupDrinks report
We had last week StartupDrinks at Brutopia, an open gathering of entrepreneurs and people involved in tech startups. The Drinks was organized both by MTW/TechEntreprise and Flow Ventures. Although it’s fair to say that the event was fairly promoted between Montréalers thanks to Twitter Matthew Harrisson from BDO also came in and “sponsored” the event [...]
Upcoming: StartupCampMontreal 4, May 7th
Embrase, a Montreal firm supporting early stage companies, has announced the 4th edition of Startup Camp Montreal 4. It’s an evening where 5 chosen technology startups will get to pitch to investors. The formula is similar in principle to Capital Innovation, albeit attendance is more open; and previous startupcamps attracted filled the SAT room. Be [...]
Upcoming: Montreal StartupDrinks, March 25th
This upcoming wednesday March 25th, technology entrepreneurs and everyone interested in startups are invited to Montreal StartupDrinks. The event is done in association with FlowVentures and TechEntreprise. It’s an informal but intense event, where you get to finally meet people behind all those twitter accounts and websites, and talk to them about your technology challenges, [...]
Akoha reaches 3000 missions played; now scaling up the community
Good news from Akoha, with Austin Hill announcing 3000 confirmed played missions, in 37 countries in the world, and plans now to expand the community beyond the current beta testers/players. Congratulations to the whole Akoha team, make us proud!
Job Listing: Program Manager at Rednod
Company: RedNod Position: Program manager Responsibilites and Tasks: As program manager, you’ll have four responsibilities. Event coordination. This involves working with various organizations to define program content, track down speakers and panelists, maintain a list of industry contacts, and perform research related to those events. It may involve attending 2 or 3 events a year, generally [...]
Job Listing: Flash Ninja for Touchscreen Apps
Company: Jezam Interactive Position: Flash Ninja Responsibilites and Tasks: We are a small startup that works in the field of interactive digital signage and we are looking for a Flash actionscript guru (versions 2 & 3), with XML and databasing experience. You must be willing to work under the preset guidelines of our software architect, [...]
Using Twitter & Community to get the most out of your SXSW, GDC, Web2.0 Expo
With conference season upon us the Montreal technology community is preparing to descend on a number of very large industry events. Our community has a number of speakers, attendees & company presentations occurring at: SXSW Interactive in Austin (March 13-17) Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (March 23-27) Web 2.0 Expo (March 31-April 3) Conferences [...]
