Montreal Tech Watch

I’m seeing lots of strong activity in Montréal in technology and new early stage ventures recently. FlowVentures, which supports early stage ventures, has opened a jobs site, thanks to standoutjobs. It features jobs and opportunities in startups they are working with, from .NET programmers, front-end designers, project managers, etc. This is a clear demonstration on [...]

I dropped by (quickly) at the Tikifest 5 à 8 today. The meetup gathered TikiWiki users, developers and the TikiWiki community, who gathered in Montreal for the Tikifest 2009 event. The 5 à 8 was quite impressive, with a jolly crowd, a very good presentation by Marc Laporte, and the announcement of the beta version [...]

Gamasutra and GameDaily BIZ are reporting that Edmonton-based BioWare is expanding to Montreal. BioWare is best known for their wildly successful roleplaying games, such as Baldur’s Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Mass Effect. Last year the company was acquired by Electronic Arts. This new BioWare Montreal team will consist of approximately 30 [...]

iNovia Capital announced this morning that they’ve participated in a Series A investment in web startup tynt. Other investors include AVAC, a government-sponsored not-for-profit startup fund, based in Alberta. Tynt provides a small javascript snippet for website publishers, which then allows the publisher to track dissemination of published content. Tynt provides for instance analytics, to [...]

We’ve missed the event for last month for FreeHackers, but we’re back with the event, with an exciting schedule. From the event page @ techentreprise: FreeHackers is a free, open event targeted at programmers, hackers and everyone interested in experimenting in new technologies. Schedule: 12h30pm Sébastien Pierre, from datalicious, is going to present Sugar, a [...]