Montreal Tech Watch

Last Drinks of the Summer, Canadian TechStars grads in Montreal

By Heri Aug 31st 2009 in Events

demo day

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 behind  one of these graduating companies is Vanilla. Vanilla provides open source forum software that is used to power hundreds of thousands of sites around the web. Vanilla already had 300,000+ Installations, 450+ Plugins and were doing 200+ downloads every day – all of this before even attending TechStars.

So why did they decide to join the TechStars program? Simply because they wanted to turn there product into a business !

The team behind Vanilla, are Canadian entrepreneurs Mark O’Sullivan and Todd Burry. The guys will be in Montreal this Thursday and they have agreed to tell us a little about their experience at TechStars: what they’ve learned about turning a product into a business, how to approach investors and some insight into the value of belonging to the TechStars alumni community.

We are going to take this opportunity to have a “Last drinks of Summer” for the Montreal tech community. The event is open to anyone and is going to be held this Thursday, September 3rd at Helm from 5pm-8pm.

Alongside main actors of the Montreal tech community such as MontrealStartup, the event is being organized in conjunction with Station-C, so it will be also be a great opportunity for anyone looking to meet up with freelance designers and developers.

Photo credit: Demo Day, techstars, by Andrew Hyde

Note: you can use techentreprise to see who is also coming up.

  • Intellitix provides rfid access to Coachella

    #coachella

  • twtspire.com| idea for the next startup = One Tweet Away? twtspire.com| idea for the next startup = One Tweet Away?

    twtspire.com| idea for the next startup = One Tweet Away?

    Startups solve problems. So if you find a problem there’s probably a startup idea lying somewhere nearby. A Montreal developer Kenji Williams developed an app called twtspire.com that scours twitter and automatically detects tweets from people that wonder why a solution doesn’t exist for a specific problem they’re having. Here are example of tweets from [...]

  • AccelerateMTL : more than just a conference

    AccelerateMTL is coming up on the afternoon on May 23rd, right after the FounderFuel demo day. It’s announced as a conference full of good keynotes, from successful entrepreneurs like BeyondTheRack founder, renowned Internet marketers, and other Internet execs. View more on the eventbrite page. As the name suggests, the presentations were curated to accelerate startups. [...]

Comments

You must be logged in to post a comment.

blog comments powered by Disqus