TechStars, the Boulder Colorado based startup program similar to Y-Combinator recently graduated another 10 companies. The event was attended by approximately 350 people, including tech bloggers such as Robert Scoble and investors from a number of “web 2.0” VC firms including First Round Capital, Foundry Group and Union Square Ventures (Fred Wilson) and our very own Montreal Start Up. The team [...]
Montreal and Toronto StartupDrinks; Upcoming wed 26th August
It’s already the end of August, with another new installement of StartupDrinks Montreal. If you read MontrealTechWatch, you are warmly invited for a drink and (re)connect with other fellow Montreal techies next wednesday 26th. It’s a parallel event, with the Toronto edition held at the same time at C’est What. For Montreal, we’re doing it [...]
Amazon AWS deployement tool Rudy reaches final features set
Solutious, a company started by Delano Mandelbaum (@solutious), has released last monday Rudy version 0.9 Rudy allows simplified development and deployement on Amazon’s cloud computing platform by using a Ruby DSL (Domain Specific Language), allowing then quick and easy provisioning of custom environments on Amazon’s hosting platform. The best use case for Rudy might be [...]
BookOven crowdsource book editing
BookOven, a startup by fellow Montréalers Hugh McGuire and Stéphanie Troeth, under development for the past year, launched an alpha version last week, with one simple feature showcase. It allows anyone to edit excerpts of an author’s work, also called by BookOven bite-sized edits. It’s usually a short sentence, presented in the work’s context, and [...]
Upcoming: Arduino workshop hosted by Foulab, August 13th
Foulab, Montreal’s own hacker space, is holding an Arduino Jam this upcoming Thursday evening, starting from 7.00pm. It’s an open event is targeted at those who wants to learn about Arduino, and try their hand on the open source microcontroller hardware. I recommend the event for those who are interested in hardware hacking, for instance [...]
Gigdoggy releases mobile fan interaction service for bands
Gigdoggy has unveiled a new version of its service last week, nicknamed Fanteraction™ release. It comes up with a new music blog, written remotely by a sound engineer, and of course the Fanteraction™ mobile platform, which allows music bands to interact with their fans during gigs. Strangely, the blog post announcing the release is very [...]
MercuryGrove launches NetworkHippo, a new CRM focusing on relationships
While technically MontrealTechWatch focuses on Technology and Innovation in Montreal, it’s with pleasure that I hear what’s being done in Ottawa, especially by Scott Lake (see startupottawa), Scott Annan, or Aydin Mirzaee. Scott Annan, who was a regular contributor to StartupOttawa, was nowhere to be found though for the past 6 months… which for an [...]
New central place for new technology companies in main downtown Montreal area
Like many tech people in Montreal, Ian Rae (@ianrae) went through Coradiant in the early 2000′s, before eventually starting his own business. He now runs a successful company which I’d describe as the “Jaguar of web hosting companies”. It might not be affordable for all companies, but it does offer top of the line expertise [...]
Tungle develops product with new UI and new partnerships
In the past year, Marc Gingras was known for evangelizing product simplicity and ease of use. I remember him at a StartupCamp Montreal edition, and he spent nearly two thirds of his allocated “time slot” to make the case why user experience and easy of use was primordial for Tungle… My reaction, and most of [...]
Canadian Mobile Startups invited at Under the Radar
Jasmine Antonick (@jasmineAntonick), a Canadian living in the valley, calls out for Canadian startups to present at Under the Radar Nov. 09. I’m looking to find some killer Canadian mobile startups, as I want to showcase innovative companies from outside the borders of Silicon Valley ;) And, I’m a Canadian living in San Francisco… It’d [...]
